Rev USA, a unit of Rev Worldwide Inc., announced a nationwide launch for its X World Wallet, app-based account that includes features such as loyalty and travel bookings and can be linked to physical and digital Visa cards.Computer Services Inc., a payments processor for financial institutions and corporate clients, reported …
Read More »67% Willing To Pay with Crypto and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/4/22
A Cantaloupe Inc. study found that 67% of consumers who own cryptocurrency are willing to use it for purchases if it were linked to a mobile wallet. The study had responses from more than 2,000 U.S. adults.Card maker SmartMetric Inc. said it created a credit card with a built-in fingerprint sensor. The card contains …
Read More »Repay Acquires Payix and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/3/22
Payments provider Repay Holdings Corp. announced it has acquired payments-technology provider Payix for $95 million at closing plus up to $20 million in earnouts contingent on Payix’s 2022 performance.Mobile-parking app provider ParkMobile LLC said an agreement with the city of Clarksville, Tenn., covers 234 on- and off-street spaces in the city’s downtown. ParkMobile claims …
Read More »LINGA rOS and Evertec Pursue Hospitality Market and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/30/21
LINGA rOS, a provider of restaurant point-of-sale technology, said it will work with Evertec Inc., a payments processor concentrated in the Caribbean and Latin America, to serve the hospitality market in those regions.Unattended payments provider Cantaloupe Inc. announced Enhance, an artificial intelligence and machine learning technology-based service from Hivery, a data-science company, …
Read More »PayByPhone App Sees $550 Million in Annual Payments and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/29/21
PayByPhone Technologies said it launched its parking-payments app in 25 additional locations in 2021, including 21 cities and four universities. Globally, the app is available in more than 1,000 cities and processes more than $550 million in payments annually.Aderant, a business management software provider, announced a partnership with LawPay that will …
Read More »Investor Takes Stake in Poynt Parent and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/28/21
Shares in Web-services company GoDaddy Inc. rose more than 8% on Monday on the news that Starboard Value had bought a 6.5% stake in the company, which last year acquired payments-technology firm Poynt Inc. to launch its GoDaddy Payments unit. Green Dot Corp. and ACI Worldwide Inc. are two other payments companies in Starboard’s portfolio.LawPay, a …
Read More »E-Commerce Sales up 11% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/27/21
E-commerce sales increased 11% in the Nov. 1 to Dec. 24 period compared to the same time last year, and were up 61.4% from the same time in 2019, according to the latest Mastercard SpendingPulse report.Fintech Aizen Global Co. Ltd. said it is working with BNY Mellon to develop banking-as-a-service for banks and …
Read More »Colony Bankcorp Launches Merchant-Acquiring Division and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/23/21
Colony Bankcorp Inc. announced it has launched a merchant-acquiring division led by Steve Raines as director for merchant services. Raines most recently was director at Synovus Merchant Services.Laurentian Bank of Canada said it will work with the card-issuing platform Brim Financial to issue Visa products in 2022, with features including instant virtual …
Read More »Mastercard Acquires Dynamic Yield and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/22/21
Mastercard Inc. said it is acquiring Dynamic Yield, a data personalization platform, from McDonald’s Corp. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.The University of Kansas has agreed to support the Passport app to pay for parking at 3,600 spaces across the campus. More than 800 cities, universities, and private operators now deploy Passport, …
Read More »Affirm Adds Two More Merchants and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/21/21
Buy now, pay later provider Affirm Inc. signed electronics retailer Newegg Commerce Inc. and The Passport Place, a travel document consultant, as new merchants.Payments platform Mogo Inc. said it has received regulatory approval in Canada to launch MogoTrade, a commission-free stock-trading service.Visa Inc. announced it has closed on its acquisition of Currencycloud, a provider of cloud-based technology …
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