News

December, 2024

• 10 December

  Optimizing payments and financial services to exceed consumer expectations and maximize revenue

  

  Steven Velasquez, Senior Vice President and Head of Partner Business Development – Elavon, Inc. As payments technology innovation continues to evolve exponentially, today’s consumers expect a seamless, connected, and personalized buying experience. Buyers don’t care about payments per se, but the overall shopping experience. ISOs and ISVs that understand this …
• 10 December

  SurgePays Partners With Clover to Ease Marketing at the Point of Sale

  

  SurgePays Inc. is integrating its ClearLine marketing platform with Fiserv Inc.’s Clover point-of-sale technology set. The integration will enable small and mid-size merchants to deliver marketing and customer-engagement strategies at the point-of-sale. The integration adds value to independent sales organizations’ offerings by providing advanced marketing capabilities at the point of …
• 10 December

  Diebold Nixdorf’s Windows 11 ATMs Signal the Next Era

  

  ATM makers are preparing for the next software evolution for cash-dispensing and deposit machines, as evidenced by Diebold Nixdorf Inc.’s implementation of the Microsoft Windows 11 operating system on devices managed by two banks in Central Asia. Other makers, such as Hyosung Americas, are readying their systems to support Windows …
• 10 December

  The Next Era for ATMs; SurgePays’s Clover Marketing Tie-in; Fee Cap Injunction Remains

  

  Restaurant server tips averaged 18.8% in the third quarter, unchanged from the second quarter, according to data from Toast Inc.’s Q3 2024 Restaurant Trends Report. The research gathered data from approximately 127,000 locations served by the Toast payments platform. Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Seller Central will integrate AI-based payments and financial-management tools from Intuit Inc. …
• 9 December

  DataVisor Launches Real Time Fraud Detection

  

  DataVisor Inc., a fraud- and risk-management solutions provider, early Monday announced the launch of an artificial intelligence-based platform that measures hot spot, distinct count, and high-frequency data in real time. The ability to measure these three data points in real time helps speeds the identification of potential fraud threats, which …
• 9 December

  Google Sues the CFPB After the Agency Slams Google Over a Wallet It No Longer Offers in the U.S. Market

  

  Google Inc. has sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau following the CFPB’s action Friday asserting federal supervision of the company’s Google Pay wallet. In the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., the same day the CFPB acted, the tech giant argues the case targets a payment service …
• 9 December

  WSPN’s Fractal Cooperation and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/9/24

  

  The Worldwide Stablecoin Payment Network, known as WSPN, said it will work with Bitcoin platform Fractal to help widen stablecoin access. The global market value for parking-management systems, including payments processing, will grow from $5.59 billion this year to $11.29 billion in 2034, a compound annual growth rate of 7.3%, according …
• 6 December

  Overhaul Your Payment Processing with Payarc’s PAYFAC Platform

  

  Empower Your Business with Seamless Transactions In today’s digital ecosystem, software companies have a wide range of options to create unique payment experience for consumers. Recently, payment facilitation has been an increasingly popular choice for business owners when it comes to accepting payments. Instead of each business needing to establish …
• 6 December

  Bank of America Completes Paze Enablement

  

  Consumers holding Bank of America Corp. credit and debit cards now have access to the Paze online checkout following BofA’s  declaration that all of its eligible cards are now enabled for the e-commerce service. Paze is an online-checkout service developed by Early Warning Services LLC. It is designed to provide …
• 6 December

  COMMENTARY: How Endpoint And Mobile Device Management Can Help Crack Down on Risk 

  

  Financial firms live and die by their reputation. While we know that, with credit unions, insurance companies, and holding companies, the result of a cyberattack could mean funding challenges, reputational damage, and even insolvency, what many don’t know is that, today, around 70% of business risks enter through an endpoint …