ATMs

Mastercard Inc. unveiled Mastercard Move Commercial Payments, a service to allow banks to support commercial cross-border payments flowing in near real-time. Real-time payments led to more than $1 billion in savings on transaction costs for U.S. businesses and consumers last year, a number forecast to grow to $4.4 billion by 2028, …

Mastercard Inc. and Citi announced they are working on a service to offer cross-border payments to Mastercard debit cards in 14 markets, including the United States. Cardholders in these markets will be able to receive payments from Citi clients in near-instant transaction times. Citi is using Mastercard Move, the card brand’s …

PrePass, a platform for highway toll payments, said its services can be accessed via an integration with the Motive Marketplace, a platform featuring artificial-intelligence capabilities. A survey of 2,600 consumers in the U.S. market and in seven other countries revealed 61% have cut back on using digital payments or otherwise changed their …

Rain Technology, a provider a directional-display technology, has developed a solution that aims at reducing the risk of onlookers visually stealing a consumer’s PIN at an ATM. The solution, called ATM Switchable Privacy, enables as little as 0.2% of an ATM screen to be visible outside of a 45-degree viewing …

Mastercard Inc. launched its Payment Passkey Service with payments processors and consumers in India, and says it will introduce the technology in other markets globally in coming months. The technology, aimed at online transactions, tokenizes payment credentials and enables biometric authentication of cardholders. Canada-based online travel agency justfly.com introduced a pay-by-bank feature, allowing travelers to …

Retailers providing cash-back services at the point of sale fill a void for many consumers who may live in so-called banking deserts, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says in a new report on the service. Some, however, charge a fee for that access, along with other banking hurdles. The Cash-back …

Lightspeed Commerce, a specialist in hospitality payments, launched Retail Insights, a data service for merchants. Shift4 Payments Inc. announced it will process all ticket sales and foodservice payments at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, the arena for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association. U.S.-based fintech software firm OMNIQ Corp. said …

Consumers are using their debit cards more frequently than ever and generating higher tickets in the process, according to a report based on data from the Pulse electronic funds transfer network. Active debit card holders now use their cards 34.6 times per month on average, up more than 4% year …

Priority Technology Holdings Inc., a payments provider, reported $15.8 billion in June-quarter bankcard processing volume, up 4.5% year-over-year. For the first half of the year, volume came to $30.6 billion, up less than 1%. Revenue for the company totaled $219.9 million for the quarter, up 21%. For the first half, …

Drug store chain Walgreens announced it is enabling online SNAP/EBT payment acceptance via Instacart nationwide at more than 7,500 Walgreens stores, including more than 100 Duane Reade stores in New York. Most Walgreens locations already accept SNAP/EBT payments in store. Walgreens also added DoorDash Inc.’s SNAP/EBT acceptance earlier this year. In related news, Instacart also announced …