Eric Cohen’s Commentary, “Whey the Credit Card Competition Act Falls Short,” posted here Oct. 9, makes three key claims about how the Credit Card Competition Act would supposedly harm small businesses and consumers. All of them are wrong.First, he says the bill would allow merchants “to choose their own network” …
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Celero Commerce announced late Wednesday it has acquired Finical Holdings LLC for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition, which is the tenth Celero has made since its launch in late 2018, will increase the company’s annual card processing volume to $25 billion and enlarge its presence in the Southwestern U.S. market, …
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Paze, an online wallet still in development, will be available to merchants using GoDaddy Inc.’s Web services. Paze is available for testing to select U.S. businesses on the GoDaddy platform. In March, at the announcement of Paze, Early Warning Services LLC, its developer, said full availability would arrive this autumn, …
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Slake IT LLC on Monday launched a food-delivery app that enables consumers to pay for orders using cryptocurrency in addition to credit cards. The company, which is supporting the Ethereum platform to enable crypto payments, has partnered with drivers of multiple food-delivery companies, including DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub, to …
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The Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA) looks to be headed for a vote before the end of the year, spurred in part by Sen. Dick Durbin’s recent urging that it be brought to the Senate floor. While the Illinois Senator is of the mind it will help increase industrywide competition …
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Rainforest, an Atlanta-based platform for embedded payments, has closed on an $11.75-million seed funding round led by Accel. Beverly, Mass., has contracted with Passport for support of mobile payments for parking in the town. Passport claims more than 800 cities and other entities using the app. Instant Financial, a provider of earned-wage …
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A new lawsuit filed Thursday against PayPal Holdings Inc. alleges the online powerhouse uses illegally anticompetitive policies that increase costs for consumers. Filed by Hagens Berman, a law firm that specializes in class-action litigation, the suit contends that PayPal prohibits merchants that work with it to offer pricing discounts when …
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Location-technology vendor Mapbox launched MapGPT, an automobile-based voice assistant incorporating generative artificial intelligence. Among its features is an ability to process payments, starting in Japan with that country’s PayPay app. Stop & Shop and Food Lion have adopted a mobile shopping app from Peapod Digital Labs, an e-commerce technology developer for Ahold Delhaize …
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Almost a year after vowing to make its PayPal- and Venmo-branded credit and debit cards available in Apple Wallet, PayPal Holdings Inc. has come through on that promise. With the move, announced Wednesday, eligible PayPal and Venmo cards can be added to Apple Wallet by tapping the “Add Debit or …
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The Federal Reserve said FedNow, its real-time payments service that launched in July with 35 banks and credit unions, now counts 108 participating institutions with 21 others providing liquidity and settlement services and 20 service providers. Kenneth C. Montgomery, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston first vice president and chief operating officer who spearheaded …
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