Merchant organizations contend an expected settlement offer in their ongoing, two-decades-old lawsuit against Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. over card-acceptance fees does not address the underlying problem that leads to high card-acceptance costs in the first place. Merchant opposition surfaced over the weekend after a story in The Wall Street …
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Shift4 Payments Inc. early Thursday reported a 26% jump year-over-year in September-quarter processing volume as the company continues to deploy assets acquired in its $2.5-billion deal for the Swiss processor Global Blue. “We are number one in hotels, number one in stadiums, and we are just beginning to bring these …
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Global Payments Inc. early Tuesday heralded updates for its Genius point-of-sale technology as it celebrated a recent regulatory ruling that speeds up the company’s $22.7 billion deal for the processing giant Worldpay. “We now expect to close on Worldpay in the first quarter of 2026,” chief executive Cameron Bready told …
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Paze, the online checkout service from Early Warning Services LLC, may usher in a new phase for the service in 2026. That’s the suggestion from Eric Hoffman, chief partnerships officer at EWS. “2025 was a big year in building partnerships and we’re excited to see the fruits of those efforts,” …
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Adyen NV and Worldpay are among processors that have signed up to participate in a new platform from Mastercard Inc. aimed at boosting approval rates for card transactions. Announced Monday, the Payment Optimization Platform seeks to boost approval rates using AI engines trained on transaction data, the card network said …
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