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Law and Regulation

Certegy Debuts White-Label BNPL Option and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/20/21

Certegy Payment Solutions LLC added a white-label version of its buy now, pay later service that enables merchants to add their own branded BNPL option.Buy now, pay later specialist Quadpay Inc. said its inaugural “Quadpay Fest” sale, which offered deals to users over a four-day period, saw 40% of purchases on average made …

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Diem Is Moving to the United States As It Unites With Silvergate to Plot a USD Stablecoin

The Diem cryptocurrency, once known as Libra, has undergone so much change in the past year that some observers at least might argue it’s almost an entirely different project. The latest development emerged late Wednesday with the announcement that the Diem Association is moving its operations from Switzerland to the …

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A Fed Report on Debit Costs Could Fuel a Movement to Reduce a Decade-Old Fee Cap

Pressure may be building on the Federal Reserve to take action on a debit card interchange-fee regulation that it has left intact for 10 years despite sweeping changes in the payments business, including an onrush of e-commerce transactions over the past year. In part, observers are reacting to a report …

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Flywire Adds Discover Acceptance and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/6/21

Flywire Corp. said users of its education payment service can now use Discover and Diners Club International cards to pay tuition and fees at educational institutions served by Flywire.The chief executives of 21 banks plus Fiserv Inc. and Jack Henry & Associates signed a letter committing their organizations to real-time bill …

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Square Online Courts Bars And Brewers With Delivery Via DoorDash

Square Inc. continues to build out delivery services for its Square Online platform with the addition of liquor delivery. Merchants using Square Online that sell liquor can offer customers the option to purchase alcohol from the store’s Web site and have the order fulfilled through Square’s delivery partner DoorDash Inc. …

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PCI Council Expects a New Module to Make Testing Terminal Software Easier

The PCI Security Standards Council says its new Terminal Software Module, which is part of version 1.1 of the PCI Secure Software Standard introduced last week, offers a more flexible approach to testing the security and integrity of payment software. The Terminal Software Module is the third module to be …

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Merchants Put the Fed in the Crosshairs of a Lawsuit Seeking to Have Debit Costs Reduced

Merchants have complained for years that they pay too much for debit card acceptance. Late last week, they took their beef to the federal courts with a lawsuit alleging a ceiling set on debit card fees a decade ago by the Federal Reserve is too high and seeking to have …

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Flywire Readies for Possible IPO and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/3/21

Payments company Flywire Corp. has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering. The number of shares to be offered and their price range have not yet been determined. The action follows the company’s submission in March of a confidential draft registration statement for …

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QuickBooks Suffers Payroll ACH Failure and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/30/21

A processing failure has interfered with direct deposit of payroll for an undetermined number of businesses using Intuit Inc.’s QuickBooks payroll service. In response to numerous posts on Twitter about the incident, Intuit posted a link to the following notice: “Some payroll customers are reporting they have not received their direct deposit …

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Visa Posts Strong Results As It Enters ‘The Beginning of the End of the Pandemic’

Payments companies took a beating as the pandemic raged, but Visa Inc.’s top brass indicated Tuesday afternoon the big network has put the worst behind it. “We believe we are at the beginning of the end of the pandemic,” said chief executive and chairman Al Kelly as he pointed to …

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