Follet Higher Education, an educational service provider and omnichannel retailer, has selected GK Software SE as its cloud-based point-of-sale provider for its more than 1,000 college campus and online stores in the United States and Canada. Follet will deploy such apps as GK Software’s OmniPOS, which supports mobile POS, self-check-out, …
Read More »An Active Year Helps Boost Results for Canada’s Nuvei
The big Montreal-based processor Nuvei Corp. has had a busy year since its headline acquisition early in 2023 of Atlanta-based Paya Holdings Inc., and late on Tuesday it disclosed how that activity has helped buoy its financial results. Nuvei, which was known until 2018 as Pivotal Payments, reported it processed …
Read More »PayRange Battles Alleged Patent Misuse And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/6/24
Unattended payments specialist PayRange Inc. said it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against CSC ServiceWorks, an operator of laundry machines in multi-family housing and college dorms. This is in addition to a previous patent infringement suit it filed in March 2023 against CSC ServiceWorks. In the new suit, PayRange seeks more than …
Read More »Eye on Restaurants: SpotOn Adds a Marketing App; IHG Hotels & Resorts Partners With eTip
Payment technology provider SpotOn Transact LLC looks to expand its footprint in the highly competitive business of restaurant payments with the introduction of SpotOn Marketing Assist, an app that automates email and social-media marketing campaigns for restaurants. The app—which integrates with Spot On’s SpotOn Restaurant POS, SpotOn Order, and SpotOn …
Read More »CFPB’s New Card Late Fees Cap and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/5/24
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule that caps late fees on credit card payments to $8, down from a typical $32. The rule goes into effect 60 days following its publication in the Federal Register. Other provisions include ending automatic annual inflation adjustment on the fee and requiring larger card …
Read More »Eye on Travel: AmEx’s New Virtual Card Integration for Small-Business Travel and Expenses; IHG Hotels Endorses Grazzy for Digital Tipping
American Express Co. unveiled on Monday a new virtual card integration with AmEx Global Business Travel’s Neo1 platform for travel and spending management. And digital-tipping software developer Grazzy Inc. said IHG Hotels and Resorts has named it as an approved partner for providing tips to hotel employees electronically. The AmEx …
Read More »COMMENTARY: The Only Sure Thing These Days Is the Need for Improved Cross-Border Payments
There are a lot of conflicting economic forecasts about what lies ahead for the rest of 2024. Of course, it is said that economic forecasting exists only to validate astrology, but two things are certain: increased global trade and shifting populations due to migrations by higher-income-seeking migrant labor. Both of …
Read More »Galileo’s RTP Addition and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/4/24
Galileo Financial Technologies expanded its relationship with The Bancorp Bank NA that now includes access to the RTP network, the real-time payments service from The Clearing Payments Co. LLC. Apple Inc. was hit with a $2 billion fine by the European Union over its European app store payment practices, CNN reported. Synchrony …
Read More »Is Shift4 Seeking a Buyer? News Reports Say So, But the Company Stays Mum
Shift4 Payments Inc. went public in June 2020 after more than two decades as a privately held processor, but now its senior management may be looking for greater returns via an acquisition by an outside company. Both the processing giant Fiserv Inc. and a Spain-based reservations-processing company called Amadeus could …
Read More »Card Issuers Rank Highest in BNPL Satisfaction, J.D. Power Finds
Credit card issuers claimed the top three spots in J.D. Power’s second annual buy now, pay later satisfaction study, with American Express Co.’s Plan It topping the list. JPMorgan Chase’s My Chase Plan and Citibank’s Citi Flex Pay rounded out the top three. American Express’s Plan It, which it launched …
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