Cardtronics Waives ATM Fees for Some Tourists to U.S. and other Digital Transactions New briefs from 5/31/19

Cardtronics plc said its Allpoint ATM network and Visa Inc. reached an agreement to waive ATM fees for travelers visiting the United States from Southeast Asia who have a Visa travel prepaid card or debit card from certain financial institutions. Allpoint counts more than 40,000 U.S. ATMs.
Lightspeed POS Inc., a vendor of point-of-sale software, acquired Chronogolf, a cloud provider of management software for golf courses. Terms were not announced.
Building-materials supplier Cemex completed the global deployment of Cemex Go, an app that allows customers to pay for products, track deliveries, and manage orders.
While news of major companies like AT&T accepting Bitcoin makes headlines, new data from Chainalysis Inc. shows only 1.3% of economic transactions with the cryptocurrency originated with merchants in the January through April period, flat with the previous two years, Bloomberg reports.
SBI Ripple Asia launched a test in Tokyo of the Ripple cryptocurrency for in-store payments on SBI’s Money Tap app, according to Coindesk. SBI Ripple Asia is a unit of Japanese financial company SBI Holdings.
Mobile bill-pay provider Allied Payment Network appointed Michele Rehm as director of marketing. Rehm comes to the company from Velocity Solutions LLC.

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