Thursday , April 18, 2024

Acquiring

Busey Enlists Corserv for Card Program and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/8/24

Corserv, a payments provider for banks and fintechs, said it will work with Busey Bank to launch a credit card for the bank’s commercial clients. Synchrony Financial said BRP US Inc., a powersports and marine products maker, said it will Synchrony’s installment finance service to its dealers. The big France-based processor Worldline said …

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Eye on AI:  PayBlox Enlists AI for Statement Reviews; Colleen AI Tackles Rentals with Voice AI

The promise of lower credit and debit card processing fees is a big attraction for merchants to switch merchant providers. Statement reviews are a key part of that process and now PayBlox, a merchant services referral site, has enlisted artificial intelligence to help. With the debut of its Statement Spy …

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Skipify Working with Visa’s Digital Commerce Program and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/5

Checkout fintech Skipify said it is working with Visa Inc.’s Digital Commerce Program on initiatives, among them letting Skipify users link Visa Click to Pay cards to a Skipify’s Connected Wallet. This move speeds recognition of Skipify users on e-commerce sites to more quickly show the users’ available cards. PSCU/Co-op Solutions, a …

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NAB’s Visa Integration and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/4/24

Payments provider North American Bancard LLC said it has integrated its merchant processing platform with Visa Inc.’s Visa Acceptance Platform, allowing it to offer merchants access to Visa properties such as Cybersource, a fraud-detection platform. The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC said first-quarter volume on its RTP real-time payments network set a quarterly …

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Mastercard Plans a Network Fee Hike for Later This Month. Merchants Aren’t Happy

Mastercard merchants will see a network fee increase later this month when Mastercard increases its Acquirer Brand Volume Fee from 0.13% to 0.14%, effective April 15. The increase comes on the heels of last week’s settlement between Visa and Mastercard, on one hand, and merchants, on the other, in their …

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Lightspeed Makes Layoffs and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/3/24

Canada-based payments processor Lightspeed Commerce Inc. announced it will reduce its headcount by roughly 10%, or 280 jobs, and make other spending cuts in operations and facilities, in a cost-cutting initiative it expects to complete by the end of June. The company has not had a profitable year since going public in …

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Nuvei Strikes a Deal With Advent International to Go Private

Nuvei Corp. announced early Tuesday it has entered into a definitive agreement with private-equity firm Advent International to be taken private in an all-cash deal valued at $6.3 billion. The deal comes less than a month after the Montreal-based processor announced it was fielding offers to take the company private. …

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PayPal, Venmo Activate Visa+ and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/2/24

Visa Inc. announced PayPal and Venmo have activated Visa+, its interoperable peer-to-peer payments service that enables users in one P2P service to make a payment to another person using another network. Fintech Current and The Western Union Co. are expected to enable Visa+ next, Visa said. The service’s B2C payout capability has …

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ACI Targets a Growing Digital Payments Market in the Middle East and Africa

ACI Worldwide Inc. announced early Monday it has signed a 10-year partnership with digital-payments technology provider Arab Financial Services. The deal is expected to accelerate ACI’s push to help financial institutions and fintechs in the Middle East and Africa modernize their digital-payments technology infrastructure, according to ACI. Under the terms …

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With a Lower Cost and a No-Chargebacks Promise for Merchants, Pay by Bank Emerges as a Fiserv Priority

Pay by bank is not a new electronic-payments concept—consumers have been paying utility bills with their bank accounts for years—but the promise of lower fees and reduced merchant headaches is energizing the service, and work is at hand developing new use cases. Witness Radial Inc., an e-commerce platform adopting Link …

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