With a pair of U.S. Senators preparing to introduce a bill that would allow merchants to process Visa and Mastercard credit card payments over other networks, payments experts reached by Digital Transactions News are sharply divided on the idea. The bipartisan bill, sponsored by Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Roger Marshall, …
Read More »Visa’s Kelly Touts Visa Direct to Attack P2P Fraud As the Network Reports a Strong Quarter
Visa Inc. late Tuesday reported a continued recovery in cross-border payments, double-digit increases in U.S. payments volume, and no let-up in the industry’s general shift to contactless payment. It also faced a question regarding Visa Direct and its links to instant peer-to-peer payments services that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau …
Read More »Clover And Carat Help Propel Strong Results for Fiserv
Merchant acquiring is Fiserv Inc.’s largest and fastest-growing business, and in the second quarter it showed no signs of slowing down. Driven by technologies like Clover, a set of point-of-sale gear, and Carat, a fast-growing commerce platform, the acquiring unit posted $1.9 billion in revenue in the quarter ended June …
Read More »Visa Founder Dee Hock Forged a Network Giant Out of a Collection of Squabbling Banks
Dee Hock, who died Saturday at 93, may not have single-handedly founded the modern electronic payments industry, but he came closer than anyone else to claiming that mantle. He is widely credited as the force that harnessed a widely varied collection of banks to start the credit card system that …
Read More »So-Called Friendly Fraud on P2P Payment Systems Has Caught the Attention of the CFPB
The issue of consumer losses to fraud on peer-to-peer payment apps is about to get hotter as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is reportedly preparing a probe of the matter. The bureau’s action will likely include new requirements for banks to reimburse consumers victimized in cases where they sent cash …
Read More »More Than Token Progress: Tokenized Payments Will Hit 1 Trillion by 2026, Juniper Predicts
The total volume of tokenized payment transactions worldwide will exceed 1 trillion by 2026, up from 680 billion this year, according to a report released Monday by Juniper Research. The growth will come mostly from click-to-pay options that allow buyers to pay with a single click, using tokenized credentials, the …
Read More »Lit on Fire by Covid, E-Commerce Will Hit $20 Trillion Globally by 2026, RBR Says
It is generally accepted that the pandemic energized online commerce, but now research is starting to emerge showing just how extensive that effect has been. “Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts to 2026,” a report released Wednesday by the London-based research firm RBR, indicates e-commerce card spending came to $7.7 …
Read More »With P2P Payments Booming, U.S. Senators Spotlight Consumer Losses to Fraud
Consumers’ loss of funds to fraud and other deceptive activity on peer-to-peer payment networks has drawn the attention of U.S. Senators, who are demanding answers on the matter from the big banks that own the Zelle P2P network. The senators’ actions come as P2P activity has boomed in response to …
Read More »An Insurance App Offers Crypto Rewards for Premium Payments
A mobile wallet that allows users to shop and pay for insurance has added a rewards program that offers cryptocurrency based on premium payments. Marble, a New York City-based company that started up in 2020, says it has integrated its wallet with Gemini, a crypto exchange, to let users redeem …
Read More »As Carr Steps Down at Beyond, Former TSYS Executive Mike Peters Takes Over As CEO
Mike Peters, formerly chief executive of TSYS Merchant Solutions, is succeeding Robert O. Carr, who said last week he would step down as chief executive of Beyond Inc., the payments provider he founded in 2017. A longtime payments-industry veteran, Carr remains executive chairman of the Princeton, N.J.-based company. Peters, whose …
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