John Owen, a retired banker and member of Discover Financial Services Inc.’s board of directors, has been appointed interim chief executive and president, replacing Roger Hochschild, who resigned Monday after five years running the company. Riverwoods, Ill.-based Discover announced Hochschild’s departure following the card network’s disclosure in an earnings call …
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The U.S. Payments Forum has published a free white paper, “Regulation II Clarification for Debit Routing,” on the Federal Reserve’s announcement earlier this year that effective July 1 issuers must support network choice on card-not-present transactions, in addition to card-present, in accordance with the 2010 Durbin Amendment. Payment-card manufacturer CPI Card Group Inc. has …
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Interac, Canada’s national debit network, has partnered with the Toronto Transit Commission, Canada’s largest transit agency, to make contactless payments available across the transit system. Beginning Aug. 15, riders will be able to pay for fares at TTC turnstiles, on buses and street cars, and at Wheel-Trans, Toronto’s transit service …
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PayPal Holdings Inc. announced early Monday that Alex Chriss, a long-time executive at Intuit Inc., will take over in September as chief executive, replacing Dan Schulman, who in February triggered the hunt for his successor when he announced he would retire later this year. Chriss, a 19-year veteran at Mountain …
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The Waffle House restaurant system has adopted chainwide contactless payment capability, including mobile-wallet acceptance, through the Oracle Payment Cloud service. A startup called iWallet said it will adopt FedNow for mobile check deposits. The Federal Reserve launched the FedNow real-time payments service last month. MarginEdge, a bill-payments provider, launched a mobile bill-payment app for restaurant operators …
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PayJunction announced its No-code Payments Integration Platform, a free browser extension that enables quick integration of payment features in any cloud software platform. The online grocery delivery service Instacart said it has initiated service in Alaska, making the company the first to enable in all 50 states grocery payments using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance …
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Visa Inc. said it has extended for four years an agreement with U.K.-based Conferma Pay to support Visa Commercial Pay, a set of business-to-business payments technologies. Payments provider Vanco Payments said its Web-based RevTrak technology will support donations through Livingtree Give, fundraising software from the Livingtree fundraising platform. India-based Tata Group’s Tata AIA Life …
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Block Inc’s Square merchant-processing unit late Tuesday introduced Square Go, a booking app for beauty and personal-care merchants. The app allows consumers to search for, and schedule appointments with, health and beauty merchants locally. The mobile app also suggests merchants based on a consumer’s previous booking patterns. Consumers can receive …
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Marqeta Inc. late on Tuesday announced it will continue processing transactions for Block Inc.’s Cash App card product for another four years under a new agreement between the companies. The renewal will see San Francisco-based Block using Marqeta’s issuing platform through June 2027. The announcement comes days after Block reported …
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i3 Verticals Inc. generated $93.9 million in fiscal third quarter revenue, up 16.5% from $80.6 million in the corresponding quarter in 2022, ended June 30. Its quarterly loss widened to $6.7 million from $4.7 million last year for the same period. Rebate-management platform Vendavo announced a collaboration with Oracle to ease payments and …
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