Fraud prevention services provider Signifyd launched Fearless Payments, a suite of services to help payment service providers increase authorization rates. Among its features are automated risk decisions, authorization rate optimization, and chargeback guarantees on all approved orders.Diebold Nixdorf Inc. announced it will integrate fraud-prevention technology from Featurespace into its Vynamic payments-processing platform.CSG Forte, …
Read More »Priority Pairs With Valor PayTech And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/14/22
Priority Technology Holdings Inc. said it is working to integrate omnichannel products from Valor PayTech into the Priority MX Merchant ecosystem.Raiven Capital said it has exited from an unspecified early-stage investment in Whizmo, a fintech that helps small businesses in emerging countries convert from cash acceptance to contactless payments.Mastercard Inc. launched Start Path …
Read More »OnShift And Payactive Eliminate Earned Wage Access Fees for Senior Care Workers
OnShift Inc., a provider of human-capital management software for caregivers, is dropping the fees for earned-wage access through its digital wallet. OnShift’s wallet runs on the Payactiv platform. As part of the new arrangement, senior care workers using the OnShift wallet can access a portion of their earned wages outside …
Read More »Boston Consulting Group: Payments Revenues Will Stay Resilient Despite Headwinds
Despite economic headwinds from supply-chain bottlenecks and geopolitical instability, the payments industry continues to show resilient revenue growth, says a new report from the Boston Consulting Group. Global payments revenues are projected to grow about 9.5% in 2022, according to the report. Beyond this year, revenues are projected to grow …
Read More »Square Tap to Pay on iPhone Debuts And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/28/22
Square, the point-of-sale and e-commerce unit of Block Inc., said Tap to Pay on iPhone is now commercially available to its merchants following a June release to select sellers. Available within the Square Point of Sale iOS app, Tap to Pay on iPhone enables merchants to accept contactless payments directly …
Read More »Volante’s ACH Tech in Colombia And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/27/22
Volante Technologies, a U.S.-based payments platform, said it is providing a banking portal for ACH Colombia, a fintech based in that South American country, as part of an effort to digitize ACH Colombia’s payments infrastructure.Payments-technology company Payscout LLC said it will offer a direct link to its Paywire platform to users of …
Read More »Nacha Issues a New ‘Framework’ Aimed at Shifting Industry Emphasis to Credit Push Frauds
As payments fraud grows more threatening by the year, a report on Thursday from the governing body for the automated clearing house network recommends the payments industry shift its emphasis from combatting unauthorized debits to preventing crimes involving credit payments. Dubbed a “new risk-management framework,” the recommendation issued by Nacha …
Read More »Galileo Teams With DataVisor to Launch All-in-One Fraud Detection Beyond Credit Cards
Galileo Financial Technologies LLC said late Tuesday it is partnering with DataVisor Inc. to enhance its fraud-detection technology beyond credit cards to include such payments options as debit cards and the automated clearing house. The new technology will also include provisioning and onboarding of new accounts. The partnership comes as …
Read More »Worldpay for Platforms Debuts And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/13/22
The big processor FIS Inc. launched Worldpay for Platforms, a service that lets software providers speed up access to FIS’s Worldpay processing unit while onboarding small and medium-size merchants.PayMyTuition, a payments platform for colleges and universities, launched a cashiering module that lets schools set up multiple cashier stations to process campus payments …
Read More »Lavu Partners With Up ‘n Go; BofA’s Payments Data And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/9/22
Lavu, a payments-technology provider specializing in restaurants, said it is partnering with Up ‘n Go, a vendor of contactless-payment technology based on QR codes, for pay-at-table checkouts.Data from the Bank of America Institute indicate overall consumer spending seen by the big bank in August was up 13% over the same month in …
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