In the midst of a boom in online commerce, one of the biggest e-commerce transaction processors globally has agreed to support both a Visa Inc. service that masks users’ card credentials and a streamlined online checkout technology offered by all four major card networks. FIS Inc. said Thursday its Worldpay processing …
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Fiserv Inc. said CB&S Bank is the 500th financial institution added to the Zelle network via the processor. Zelle is the person-to-person payments service from Early Warning Services LLC.DaVinci Payments and North Lane Technologies (formerly Wirecard North America) jointly announced the completion of a previously announced merger. The combined business will operate …
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Cardtronics plc, a leading non-bank ATM deployer, has been tendered an offer by Hudson Executive Capital and Apollo Global Management for its outstanding shares of stock at $31 per share in cash. Cardtronics, which operates more than 270,000 ATMs, has a less than 10% share of the global ATM business …
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Merchants are looking for ways around the issues created by the Covid-19 pandemic, and this has been especially true for restaurants. That’s creating a wide range of opportunities for merchant-service firms. On Wednesday, Square Inc. said it has added DoorDash to Square Online as a delivery option for eateries and …
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Sightline Payments, which provides payments for gaming companies, said it received an investment from private investment firm Searchlight Capital Partners. The amount was not disclosed. Also, Sightline cofounder and chief executive Kirk Sanford was replaced by Joe Pappano, Sightline president of Americas, who was appointed chief executive and a director …
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InComm Payments announced Tuesday that its Visa-branded Vanilla Gift Cards can now be downloaded to Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay mobile wallets, enabling the card to be used for contactless payments. It is the first open-loop Visa gift card to be supported on mobile wallets, InComm says. In …
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Capital One Financial Corp. is barring all of its credit cards from being used for point-of-sale lending transactions, aside from the United Kingdom where buy now, pay later products are being reviewed for possible regulation. The move comes as overall buy now, pay later providers garner a lot of attention, …
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Wells Fargo Co. said overall levels of optimism among small businesses remain at just more than half where they were late last year, even though its Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index rose 12 points for the second straight quarter in the latest period.As local governments imposed measures to control fresh outbreaks …
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Less than a week after announcing its partnership with Cybersource, Houston-based P97 Networks Inc.’s plans to expand its PetroZone platform globally are coming into sharper focus. P97 intends to leverage Cybersource’s gateway connections to more than 140 acquiring banks globally to expand its reach to petroleum retailers. The company will …
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A relatively novel method for private companies to go public gained momentum in the payments industry Monday with the announcement that London-based processor Paysafe Group Holdings Ltd. will be acquired by a group put together by Las Vegas-based Foley Trasimene Acquisition Corp. in a deal valued at approximately $9 billion. …
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