Payments provider North American Bancard LLC launched two new compensation programs for sales agents, including a restructured bonus program and a portfolio buyout program that includes an opportunity for qualified sales agents to have a portion of their residuals purchased.Processor Wirecard AG is partnering with point-of-sale credit specialist Klarna AB to integrate all of …
Read More »Short-Term Coronavirus Impacts Are Unlikely To Hurt Long-Term Payments Viability, Analysts Say
As consumers and businesses contend with the uncertainty spawned by the coronavirus outbreak, payments companies will feel the effects, perhaps more than they’ve already announced. Though neither of the two larger U.S. card networks—Mastercard Inc. and Visa Inc.—have updated their recent revisions to their financial guidance, some analysts suggest the impact …
Read More »Eye on Fraud: ACI’s Self-Adjusting Machine-Learning Model; Consumers’ Fraud Fears
Machine learning is a popular fraud-fighting technology, but models have a tendency to become less effective over time as criminals adjust their tactics. On Tuesday, ACI Worldwide Inc. said it’s taking a crack at that problem with a service that the company says can adjust automatically to changing fraud patterns. …
Read More »Eye on POS Systems: Shift4 Adds An Integration; Netsurion Extends Restaurant Reach
As merchants expect more consolidated services from their point-of-sale systems, payments providers are listening and acting. Merchant processor Shift4 Payments LLC said Tuesday that its suite of restaurant POS systems now has an integration with TakeOut7 Inc., an online-ordering service. This enables orders placed via TakeOut7 to sync with Shift4’s …
Read More »Western Union’s Law-Firm Payment Service and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/10/20
The Western Union Co. launched WU Incoming Payments for Legal, a service aimed at allowing U.S. law firms to accept foreign payments without bank-processing fees.Payments provider Usio Inc. said InsureSmith, which provides insurance brokerage software products, integrated Usio’s PayFac-in-a-Box service to enable users to pay premiums directly through the InsureSmith platform.E-commerce services provider Signifyd announced …
Read More »Online Attackers Emphasize Mobile Sites And Apps, Report Finds
Online criminals are not that much unlike honest consumers in adopting mobile Web sites and apps as their favored channels with retailers and financial services. The evidence is that attack rates via mobile sites increased 56% in the latter half of 2019, according to the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Cybercrime Report …
Read More »COMMENTARY: Why Trust Is the Future of Fraud Prevention
“Can I trust you?” The ability to answer this seemingly simple question can help online merchants stop fraud and increase sales like never before. In fact, it’s a question that we at Kount answer billions of times per year for our customers. In today’s digital world, fraud-prevention solutions use artificial …
Read More »Perk Adds Alipay Support and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/5/20
Perk Labs Inc. announced an agreement with Alipay that will enable Alipay users to make payments on the Perk platform.EVO Payments Inc. said it will offer the Nexgo Inc. N5 Android smart point-of-sale terminal.Certemy Inc., a professional certification and licensing management platform, introduced new payment gateway options, including Stripe Inc., PayPal Holdings Inc., …
Read More »Keeping Merchants PCI-Compliant Is Becoming Tougher, Survey Finds
Independent sales organizations are increasing their use of non-compliance fees for merchants that don’t adhere to PCI Security Standards Council requirements, with 23% of ISOs surveyed for the ControlScan/MAC 2020 Acquiring Trends Report saying they assess these fees. That’s up from the historic range of 17% to 18%. The report, …
Read More »Ant Financial Buys a Stake in Klarna, Lending Impetus to Online Installment Payments
Klarna Bank AB, a leading exemplar of the trend toward offering installment-plan payments online and at the point of sale, has received backing from Ant Financial Services Group in a deal that cements an existing alliance between the two companies and could add considerable propulsive force to Klarna’s relatively new …
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