Prelim, a San Francisco-based provider of digital-banking services for financial institutions, has partnered with Epos Now, a cloud-based provider of point-of-sale technology. The partnership is expected to enhance the digital experience for Epos Now’s customers and simplify onboarding to its platform. Norwich, England-based Epos Now, which services 51,000 retail and …

During the two years since the Covid-19 pandemic hit, point-of-sale technology for enterprise merchants in the United States has gone from being a low-growth channel for POS solution and hardware providers to one that now presents significant growth opportunities, according to a report from Moody’s Investor Service. Sparking the turnaround …

Digital payments platform provider Buy It Mobility Networks Inc. is betting its new BuyPass application will further reduce the complexities around connecting to its platform for merchants that want to offer branded payment options that debit a consumer’s bank account. Launched Wednesday, the application drops a URL into a merchant’s …

Responding to demand from consumers and billers for digital bill-payment options, electronic billing and payment platform provider PayNearMe Inc. on Tuesday announced the addition of PayPal and Venmo to its payment options. A recent study by PayNearMe revealed that 43% of respondents rated the convenience of using PayPal to pay …

With online ordering capabilities now table stakes for restaurants, Epos Now, a London-based provider of cloud-based software, announced Monday it is rolling out its Epos Now Delivery application for restaurants in the United States. The decision to launch Epos Now Delivery in the U.S. market was prompted by the massive …

With ransomware attacks showing no signs of slowing down, the National Cybersecurity Alliance and the PCI Security Standards Council issued a joint warning bulletin Thursday. The bulletin was prompted by feedback from payment industry stakeholders and heightened news coverage of the attacks throughout 2021, says the PCI SSC.  In 2021, …

In a bid to make it easier for consumers to pay myriad credit card bills each month, a startup called Fyncr Inc. on Thursday launched a bill-payment app that allows users to aggregate and pay their credit card bills in one application.  With the Fyncr app, credit card holders can …

As part of its strategy to enable application developers to create solutions fully compliant with open-banking regulations around the world, Cloudentity, a provider authorization technology, has joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage program as a technology partner to Apigee, Google Cloud’s API Management platform. The partnership combines Apigee’s API management platform with Cloudentity’s …

While the number of publicly disclosed data breaches totaled 4,145 globally in 2021, a 5% decline from 2020, the bulk of those breaches occurred in the United States. Disclosed data breaches in the U.S. totaled 2,953, or 71% of the global total, according to Risked Based Security Inc. The number …

As banks pull ATMs from underperforming off-premise locations, it is creating an opportunity for independent ATM deployers to fill the void, says a report for RBR, a London-based research and consulting firm. The trend, which is being driven in part by banks’ growing emphasis on providing cashless paymentsolutions to their …