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Competitive Strategies

Mercado Pago Adds PayPal Checkout Option and other Digital Transactions New briefs from 12/31/19

PayPal Holdings Inc. announced it has signed a commercial agreement with MercadoLibre, a major e-commerce marketplace in Latin America. As part of the deal, PayPal will become a payment choice in the Mercado Pago online checkout for customers in Brazil and Mexico, a move PayPal says could lead to PayPal users getting …

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Everi Makes $25 Million Acquisition and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/30/19

Everi Holdings Inc., a provider of payment processing, slot machines, and various services to the gaming industry, said its Everi Payments subsidiary bought $25 million in “strategic assets” from Micro Gaming Technologies Inc., a privately held provider of loyalty and marketing products and promotional tools and apps for casinos. Under …

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Amazon’s Record Holiday Season and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/27/19

E-commerce leader Amazon.com Inc. said the 2019 holiday shopping season was a record-breaker for the company, with “billions of items ordered,” including “tens of millions” of Amazon devices. The company didn’t disclose payment volumes.Following a 79% collapse last year, the cryptocurrency market rebounded in 2019 to a total value of $192.3 billion, up 58%, …

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Citcon Prevails in Source Code Lawsuit and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/26/19

Citcon USA LLC said it prevailed in a lawsuit against Canada-based RiverPay Inc. over allegations of misappropriation of source code trade secrets. Citcon, which helps North American merchants integrate Chinese mobile wallet acceptance, sued RiverPay in 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California because it said RiverPay …

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OTI Raises $2.5 Million and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/24/19

On Track Innovations Ltd., a provider of payments technology based on near-field communication, announced it raised $2.5 million in a private placement of shares.Digital-banking and payments-processing technology provider i2c Inc. launched a mobile app and cardholder Web site it says are designed to help persons who have color-blindness conduct digital banking.TriumphPay, a …

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It’s Official: Same-Day ACH Gets a Third Settlement Window, Effective March 2021

In a move that could have wide-ranging implications for a variety of payments, the Federal Reserve on Monday announced it will support a third settlement window each day for same-day automated clearing house transactions. The later settlement time, which ACH rule-making authority Nacha and a number of banks have long …

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COMMENTARY: How To Leapfrog Barriers in Payment Infrastructure

Over the last decade, we have seen an explosion in fintech, ushering in a new era of commerce. Payment innovations have closed the technology gap and have connected consumers all around the world—even those without bank accounts—to the digital marketplace. Many fast-emerging markets across Asia and Latin America have seen …

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Fleetcor Contests FTC Lawsuit and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/23/19

Fleetcor Technologies Inc., a payments processor for fleet-fueling cards and other products, issued a statement contesting a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit filed against the company Dec. 20 and asserting it will “vigorously” defend itself against the agency’s complaint in court. The FTC alleges Fleetcor charged customers “at least hundreds of millions of …

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COMMENTARY: What Will Digital Commerce Look Like in 2020?

Hardly any industry is currently in such a state of flux as is digital commerce. Of course, it’s precisely for this reason that the participating players are particularly concerned with the trends of the future. While it’s no surprise that customers will continue to take center stage, they will do …

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Oklahoma’s Attorney General Says the State’s Credit Card Surcharge Ban Restricts Speech

Proponents of credit card surcharging have received a Christmas present in the form of an Oklahoma attorney general’s official opinion declaring the state’s no-surcharging law unconstitutionally restricts free speech. The development means surcharge bans remain in only four states. State Sen. Michael Brooks, D-Oklahoma City, asked Attorney General Mike Hunter …

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