Feedzai, a U.S. fraud-detection and -prevention company, will offer its services in Latin America through a partnership with Dock, a payments provider specializing in services for that region. TreviPay, a U.S.-based business-to-business payments provider operating in 32 countries, introduced a service to support cases where buyers ask to be invoiced …
Read More »Adyen Launches Pay By Link Through a Partnership With Teamwork Commerce
Teamwork Commerce, a provider of retail-management software, has partnered with Adyen NV to launch Pay by Link, a financial technology platform that enables consumers to pay using a secure URL link provided by the retailer. With Pay by Link, consumers pay using their preferred payment option through a secure link …
Read More »The U.K.’s Paysend Eyes U.S. P2P Payments Among Hispanics
Paysend Group is embarking on a campaign to make its name known among U.S. Hispanic peer-to-peer payments users with an advertising campaign and an offer of fee-free money transfers to Latin America, at least initially. Having opened a U.S. office in 2022, London-based Paysend hopes its advertising campaign, which debuts …
Read More »Five Star’s Tap-to-Pay on iPhone And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/21/23
Community financial institution Five Star Bank launched tap-to-pay on iPhone capability for its business clients, allowing merchants to accept contactless payments directly on their iPhones. Fluency, a provider of technology for central bank digital currencies, said it has been selected by Mastercard Inc. to work with the card network on CBDC initiatives. Payments provider Novo …
Read More »Contactless And Mobile Wallets Are Gaining Ground Among Debit Users, a Pulse Study Finds
Consumer affinity for in-person transactions that reduce points of contact are taking hold as contactless payments made with debit cards swelled to 16% of the U.S. card-present share last year from 8% in 2021. It’s a similar story with debit cards used with mobile wallets. Their use increased from 5% …
Read More »Citizens Pay Adds Apple POS Financing Option And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/18/23
Upgraded, a service that lets Apple MacBook buyers pay over time, announced it is launching in the United States in a partnership with Citizens Pay, a point-of-sale financing service of Citizens Bank. Adyen NV, a Dutch payments platform that competes in the U.S. market against companies like Stripe, Fiserv, PayPal, …
Read More »Debit Use up 1% in 2022 And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/17/23
Pulse, the debit network owned by Discover Financial Services, released its 2023 debit study that found the total number of debit transactions increased 1% in 2022 over 2021, while dollar volume increased 3% for the same period. Fraud and risk platform DataVisor released its Real-Time Payments Fraud Solution to help counter fraud …
Read More »Baywood Hotels Adds Digital Tipping Capabilities for Its Guests
Baywood Hotels Inc. is making eTip’s cashless mobile-tipping technology available across its entire portfolio of properties, which include Hilton, Marriott, IHG, and Choice hotels. ETip enables consumers to digitally tip hotel workers by scanning a QR code with their mobile phone. That opens the eTip app directly in their phone’s …
Read More »An Embedded Pricing Tool from TSG Aims for Fine Tuning
TSG, a payments advisory firm, released a service to help merchant acquirers and software vendors optimize pricing for merchants. Dubbed the Embedded Pricing Tool, it can help acquirers and software vendors get pricing right without over- or under-pricing merchants. Pricing data comes from the TSG database in its Acquiring Industry …
Read More »Sesame Credit Builder Debuts And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/16/23
Credit Sesame, which allows consumers to access their credit information, launched a Mastercard debit card called Sesame Credit Builder. The card is aimed at enabling consumers to build a credit history via routine transactions. NCR Corp. announced the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has declared effective a Form 10 registration statement …
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