Thursday , March 28, 2024

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Zelle Signups Growing and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/27/20

Early Warning Services LLC said enrollments in its Zelle peer-to-peer payments network since early March are increasing at “more than double-digit rates above average” as stay-at-home users deploy the service to reimburse neighbors for groceries and canceled events and send money to friends and relatives who need cash. Some 837 financial institutions have …

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Eye on Merchants: Revel Adds an Online-Ordering Tool; Velocity And Womply Prep for PPP’s Second Wave

Many payments providers are doing what they can to help merchants. Revel Systems Inc. launched a standalone version of its online-ordering tool and Velocity Merchant Services is working with Womply to help businesses navigate the Paycheck Protection Program. Called Revel Go, the tool from Atlanta-based Revel can be added to …

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Prepaid Specialist Blackhawk Rolls Out Digital Rewards And Gets Set to Launch a Donation Site

With consumers contending with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, rewards offered by the card networks could take on added importance. Blackhawk Network is counting on that, and has introduced a capability for mobile-phone users to add digital rewards to their Apple Pay, Google Pay, or Samsung Pay wallets. Working …

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AmEx Launches ‘Stand for Small’ Group and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/22/20

American Express Co. launched “Stand for Small,” a platform of more than 40 companies who have agreed to lend expertise to small businesses impacted by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.The World Bank predicted in a new report that global remittances will fall by about 20% this year because of the economic crisis …

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Google Dangles Free Listings for Merchants on Its Google Shopping Tab

Alphabet Inc.’s chief subsidiary Google revealed Tuesday that merchants can soon have free listings on its Google Shopping tab. No-cost listings will become available in the United States next week and elsewhere before the end of 2020, Bill Ready, president of commerce at Mountain View, Calif.-based Google, said in a …

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Synchrony Sounds Notes of Cautious Optimism As the Pandemic Takes Its Toll

The nation’s largest issuer of store cards sounded a note of optimism Tuesday as the Covid-19 crisis continued to ravage consumer spending. “Believe it or not, there are deals in the pipeline [with merchants],” said Margaret Keane, chief executive of Synchrony Financial. “We’re not sitting back. We’re highly engaged.” Keane …

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Google’s Financial-Services Plans May Include a Card Redux

It’s well known that Alphabet Inc.’s Google unit wants to offer consumers checking accounts, though that service has yet to launch. But the search-engine giant also reportedly is developing a debit card that would work in concert with its Google Pay mobile-payments service, according to news reports from Silicon Valley. …

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eBay Payments Expands and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/20/20

In an update, eBay Inc. said it will expand its managed-payments platform later this year to Australia and Canada. The platform, which funnels payments to a variety of processors through a gateway provided by Adyen, has processed more than $2 billion so far for more than 25,000 sellers in the United States, …

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Yiftee Adds Facebook And Instagram Promotion to Support Digital Gift Cards for Local Merchants

Among payment devices, gift cards are unique in that they can promote a business as well as enable payments at the store or online. That’s an edge at a time of a pandemic, and now technology platforms that support digital gift cards are leveraging that advantage. Yiftee Inc. late on …

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FreedomPay Adds Google Pay Support and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/17/20

Payments provider FreedomPay has added support for Google Pay, enabling Google Pay users to make e-commerce payments in Android apps and in Web browsers. This can be done on a merchant’s Web site regardless of browser or operating system or within an Android app, with FreedomPay securely integrating to the Google Payments …

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