Sensing that consumers’ growing preference for contactless-payments options will be permanent, Intuit Inc. on Thursday introduced its QuickBooks Card Reader for small businesses. The terminal, which integrates with QuickBooks Payments, supports what Intuit calls smart-tipping functionality. Businesses can customize three tipping options that are displayed on the card reader as …
Read More »Trust And Security Could Be Big Hurdles As Apple Prepares Its Entry Into BNPL
For Apple Inc. to become a disruptor in the rapidly growing buy now, pay later market, the technology giant is going to have to win consumer’s trust and demonstrate its BNPL platform is secure. Reports of Apple developing a BNPL product, which the company has internally dubbed Apple Pay Later, …
Read More »Mobile Specialist Miura Introduces New Terminals And Apps for North America
United Kingdom-based mobile-payment specialist Miura Systems is expanding its operations in North America through the introduction of PCI PTS v5 certified terminals, a turnkey semi-integrated payment application, and a hosted device-management system. Miura, which has deployed more than 3 million payment devices to more than 30 countries, is also beefing …
Read More »KyckGlobal Adds Cross-Border Payments To Its Arsenal
KyckGlobal Inc. on Monday added cross-border payment capabilities to its platform by partnering with Moneycorp, a London-based provider of foreign exchange and global payment services to individual and corporate customers. The partnership will enable KyckGlobal to facilitate cross-border payments in more than 200 countries via wire transfers and international ACH transactions, …
Read More »And Then There Were Two: Colorado’s Passage of Surcharge Law Leaves Massachusetts and Connecticut As Only States With Surcharge Bans
With Colorado Governor Jared Polis signing Senate Bill 21-091, repealing the state’s ban on credit card surcharging, Colorado has a surcharging law that not only ensures proper disclosure about surcharges to consumers, but mirrors the surcharging rules implemented by Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. The new law, signed by Polis …
Read More »As Buy Now, Pay Later Usage Rises, It Bids to Become an ‘Option’ Rather Than Just a ‘Sweetener’
Consumer usage of buy now, pay later has increased significantly over the last couple of years. Research from Auriemma Consulting Group Inc. reveals the number of debit card holders offered a BNPL option in-store or online increased more than 10 percentage points between the first quarter of 2019 and the …
Read More »Eye On Payments for Professions: New Initiatives From DepositLink, LawPay, And Repay
With the Covid-19 pandemic accelerating the adoption of digital payments, it was only a matter of time before payments providers began pushing the technology beyond mainstream merchants, such as retailers and restaurants, and down to professions with specialized needs, such as realtors, attorneys, and healthcare providers. DepositLink Inc., a Boston-based …
Read More »BlocPal And OneFeather Team to Deliver Services Via Mobile Wallets to Canada’s Indigenous People
As part of its goal to provide unbanked and underbanked consumers affordable digital access to financial services through a single application, BlocPal International Inc. has partnered with OneFeather, a Victoria, British Columbia-based provider of digital services to indigenous people in Canada, to introduce the OneFeather app in that country. The …
Read More »Riskified Files for an IPO; Lightspeed Closes Its NuOrder Deal
Fraud-management platform Riskified Ltd. has filed for an initial public offering of its Class A Ordinary Shares. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC are the lead underwriters. Barclays Capital Inc., KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., Piper Sandler & Co., Truist Securities, Inc., …
Read More »Contactless Parking Expands As ParkMobile Grows Its Presence in North Carolina
ParkMobile LLC Thursday expanded its partnership with parking-lot operator The Car Park to Raleigh, Asheville, and Boone, North Carolina. Previously, The Car Park worked with another payment provider in those cities. The deal also builds on an existing relationship The Car Park has with ParkMobile in Tampa, Boise, Estes Park, …
Read More »