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Big Boy Goes Chainwide with Oracle And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/18/23

Oracle Corp. said restaurant chain Big Boy Restaurant Group LLC will adopt its Micros Simphony Cloud Point of Sale and Oracle Payment Cloud Service. Payments provider Paysafe Ltd. said it has expanded its processing services to sports betting in Ohio. The move follows on the heels of Paysafe’s entry in the Maryland sports-betting …

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Lightspeed Lays Off 300 Staff And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/17/23

Point-of-sale system maker Lightspeed Commerce Inc. said it will reorganize as it contends with a shifting economy. Among its actions are the elimination of 300 jobs, accounting for approximately 10% of its overall employees. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is considering regulations governing the fees providers charge for cross-border money wires, according to The Wall …

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Toshiba Pairs With PopID And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/16/23

Retail-technology provider Toshiba has agreed to incorporate biometric identification technology from PopID into its point-of-sale and self-service devices running on Toshiba’s Elera Commerce Platform. PopID’s technology relies on facial-recognition software. Ingenico launched its Axium Retail Core capabilities for its Axium point-of-sale terminals that can ease integration efforts. Payments provider FreedomPay said it has integrated its services with the …

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Xoom’s New Debit Card Deposit Feature And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/13/23

PayPal Holdings Inc. launched a cross-border money-transfer product called Debit Card Deposit for its Xoom international money-transfer service. Sixty-seven percent of consumers intend to spend the same or more in 2023 as they did in 2022, found a survey of 2,032 U.S. adults. Conducted by The Harris Poll and commissioned by DailyPay and …

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Oracle Tweaks Contactless Acceptance And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/12/23

Oracle Corp. launched its Retail Payment Cloud Service to support contactless payments for U.S. retailers at fixed-fee rate pricing. Mercatus Technologies Inc. debuted an updated version of its mobile grocery shopping app that includes seamless cart building and checkout, personalization, rewards and loyalty, and third-party delivery service integrations. MobileCoin Inc. launched Moby, a …

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Card Spending up 5.9% in 2022 And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/11/23

Total card spending per household was up 5.9% year-over-year in 2022, according to new data from the Bank of America Institute. Kubra, which provides a payment network enabling consumers to pay bills with cash at retailers, said retailer Rite Aid joined its network, the 19th to do so. Blaze, a point-of-sale …

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Markt POS’s Cloud Payments Service And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/10/23

A technology company called Markt POS announced what it says is the first cloud-based software to handle payments and other functions exclusively for small and medium-size grocery and specialty stores. The company says more than 300 stores have signed up for the product. Iowa-based payments provider VizyPay said it has processed more than $4 …

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Clowd9 Enlists Netcetera’s 3-D Secure And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/10/23

Clowd9, a cloud-based payment-processing platform, said it will use 3-D Secure issuer services from Netcetera to authenticate transactions and for access control services. Mastercard Inc. introduced its Mastercard Artist Accelerator program, which aims to assist fledgling music artists through nonfungible tokens and other Web3 technologies.

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Fleetcor Closes on Global Reach Acquisition And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/6/23

Payments platform Fleetcor Technologies Inc. has closed on its acquisition of Global Reach Group, a United Kingdom-based provider of cross-border payments. Terms of the deal, which was announced in June, were not released. Ionia, a provider of embedded-payments technology, has joined Visa Inc.’s Fast Track Program, a service enabling fintechs to tap …

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What’s in ACI’s Future? And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/5/23

ACI Worldwide Inc.’s shares finished up 13% to $26.11 on Wednesday as Bloomberg reported the payments company is talking to private-equity players about a possible sale. Payments processor Computer Services Inc. said it is working with Microsoft to rebuild its technology on Azure, Microsoft’s cloud-services platform. CardWorks Servicing LLC, a unit of CardWorks …

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