Two venues at Resorts World Las Vegas will adopt point-of-sale technology from Ordr Technologies. Salt Lake City, Utah-based Ordr says the Zouk Nightclub and Ayu Dayclub venues at the Resorts World property will take advantage of Ordr’s artificial intelligence-capable POS system to unify all elements of the transaction, including the …
Read More »Add Intuit as the Latest FedNow Participant
Intuit Inc. is among the latest corporations to receive FedNow certification, a necessary step to begin offering real-time payments to its clients via the Federal Reserve’s system. Announced Thursday, the certification means Intuit, owner of business-accounting program QuickBooks and other financial-technology services, will be able to partner with financial institutions …
Read More »Bluefin Pairs With Agile on a Ticketing Point-of-Sale Service
With nearly 60% of consumers willing to travel to experience live music, according to a Live Nation survey, ticketing could be a beneficial segment for acquirers to pursue. Bluefin Payment Systems and Agile Ticketing Solutions are continuing to court ticketing companies with the expansion of their deal to now support …
Read More »Outpayce Boosts Travel Companies’ Chargeback Resilience with Riskified Integration
Travel companies contend with chargeback disputes as any other merchant would, and now those using the Outpayce platform can tap into Riskified’s fraud-prevention tools and its Chargeback Guarantee model to help. Announced Tuesday, the integration sees Riskified services made available via Outpayce’s, payments platform from Amadeus IT Group SA, which …
Read More »Famous Labs Taps AI for Speedy E-Commerce Site Building
Retailers looking to quickly set up an e-commerce site with integral payments acceptance can now use Famous.ai, a platform that uses artificial intelligence to do so. Launched by Palm Beach, Fla.-based Famous Labs, the service enables business owners to design an online store using plain-language descriptors. The end result, Famous …
Read More »The AI Upload: 44% Say AI Will Manage Payments; Visa Readies for AI-to-Business Commerce
As artificial intelligence continues to work its way into more facets of commerce, consumers and businesses may not be ready to go all in just yet. That day may come, however, if a report from Visa Inc. and another from Aevi prove accurate. First, Aevi, a Germany-based payments platform, found …
Read More »A Year into VAMP, Visa Issues New Dispute Resolution Tools
Visa Inc. released six new or updated dispute-resolution services, a year after acquirers became subject to the then-new Visa Acquirer Monitoring Program. Known as VAMP, the program, according to Visa, consolidated five fraud and dispute programs and reduced 38 distinct remediation processes into one program. According to Oscar Bello, Chargeback …
Read More »It’s Still Card-First in the U.S.
U.S. consumers are nothing if not habit-driven. New research from Global Payments Inc. suggests that credit and debit cards accounted for 49% of all online shopping and 71% of in-store shopping in 2025, as reported in the 2026 edition of the Global Payments Report. That is virtually unchanged from 49% …
Read More »Zelle Renews Its Outreach to Minority Deposit Institutions
Zelle, the peer-to-peer payment service from Early Warning Services LLC, is renewing its effort to bring more minority deposit institutions, be they banks or credit unions, into its program. Announced Monday, this year’s effort again works with credit union service organization Velera to recruit financial institutions that primarily provide services …
Read More »How Top U.S. Acquirers Ranking Changed Following Acquisitions
There’s a new top U.S. merchant acquirer. Global Payments Inc., with an estimated $2.8 trillion in 2025 U.S. processing volume, has moved into the top spot in the 2026 TSG Directory of U.S. Merchant Acquirers, unseating JPMorgan Chase & Co., which had held the top rank since at least the …
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