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Kevin Woodward

Kevin's role at Digital Transactions is to write news and features stories for publication on the Web site and in the magazine. He also oversees the digital editorial aspect of the site and the Digital Transactions News daily newsletter.

Now That Apple Pay Has Arrived on the Web, Will It Solidify Its Hold on Users?

Apple Pay has brought the one-click simplicity of its mobile-payments service to the desktop and mobile browsers. Apple Inc. on Tuesday released an update for Apple computers that enables consumers to pay using its Apple Pay mobile wallet on participating Web sites, such as Lululemon.com and Apple.com, but only when …

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Quick Chip Or Not, Cayan Figures EMV Will Consume 116 Million Hours This Year

Consumers and merchants can count the seconds it takes to complete an EMV chip card transaction, and now payments provider Cayan LLC has quantified the total cost in hours: 116 million. That is Boston-based Cayan’s estimate of how much more time consumers will spend at the checkout completing EMV transactions …

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Contactless Payments Specialist PayRange Taps Into the Canadian Vending Market

PayRange Inc., a specialist in contactless payments for vending machines, is making good on $12 million in funding it raised last year with a couple of contract announcements. Portland, Ore.-based PayRange said Monday the Canadian National Vending Alliance, a coalition of large vending operators in Canada, will equip all vending …

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Faster EMV Tech Might Leapfrog the Traditional Spec and Improve Consumer Perceptions

Card-brand efforts to improve consumers’ perceptions of EMV transaction speeds took a step ahead this week when a grocer debuted updated EMV software on its point-of-sale systems. New Seasons Markets, including its New Leaf Community Markets unit, is now using the Quick Chip and M/Chip Fast technologies from Visa Inc. …

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Global Payments’ Heartland Merger On Track, Executives Say

The $4.3 billion merger of Global Payments Inc. and Heartland Payment Systems Inc. appears to be paying off. Atlanta-based Global Payments released its fiscal fourth-quarter and year-end results Thursday. For the year, which ended May 31, total revenue of $2.9 billion was up 4.5% from $2.8 billion in the prior year. …

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Eye on Earnings: Ingenico North America up 11%; Sales Up, Profits Down at TSYS

The U.S. migration to the EMV chip card standard continues to pay off for point-of-sale terminal maker Ingenico Group as the company reported a 14% increase in its North America revenue for the first six months of 2016. France-based Ingenico, in its earnings results released Tuesday, said it recorded 148 …

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WePay Takes its Payments-as-a-Service Tech to the U.K.

Payments-service provider WePay Inc. has expanded into the United Kingdom, a move that could make it easier for its clients to offer services internationally, WePay announced Tuesday. WePay’s client list includes organizations such as GoFundMe, Meetup, Care.com, Fresh Books, and Constant Contact. Organizations like these rely on crowdfunding payments. WePay …

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Making up for Lost Time, the U.S. Rockets to No. 1 Chip Card Market for Visa

The United States may have been late to the EMV party, but U.S. credit and debit card issuers pushing out EMV chip cards have helped make the country the number-one market for EMV plastic, according to the latest figures from Visa Inc. As of June 30, Visa chip cards totaled …

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Though Consumers Foresee a Cashless Society, Experts Say Don’t Hold Your Breath

A majority of Americans—62%—believe credit and debit cards and other electronic payments will replace cash in their lifetimes, finds a recent Gallup Inc. poll. But that doesn’t mean cash will disappear any time soon, experts say. Of the more than 1,000 consumers surveyed, only 11% said it is very unlikely and …

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Contactless Transit Payments Could Bloom Globally With Cubic’s TfL Licensing Deal

A little bit of London may find its way into the hands of U.S. transit riders. Cubic Transportation Systems, a unit of Cubic Corp., will license contactless ticketing technology developed by Transport for London, the U.K. capital’s transit agency, for use with similar agencies around the world. TfL’s technology enables transit …

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