Mobile Commerce

The pandemic sent workers home to work, and online criminals have been quick to take advantage of that mass migration. Phishing attacks are now at a record high, with incidents in the first quarter breaching 1 million for the first time, according to a report released Tuesday by the Anti-Phishing …

EMVCo reported the number of EMV chip cards in circulation globally has grown by 1.1 billion over the past year to a total of 12 billion. Some 68% of all cards issued are now EMV-enabled and 90% of all card-present transactions use EMV chip technology, according to the global standards body.Paysafe …

MagicCube Inc. has chiefly aimed its tap-to-pay technology at small sellers to allow them to take card payments directly on an off-the-shelf mobile device. But on Monday the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company announced a version of its i-Accept platform for enterprise and big-box merchants.  To make i-Accept more attractive to …

Total credit and debit card dollar volume for Bank of America Corp. increased 9% in May year-over-year, with credit card volume up 16% and debit volume up 9%, the Bank of America Institute reported.A research report from Aite-Novarica finds what the report calls “excessively high rates” of identity theft, which the report says …

Apple Inc.’s sneak peek at its iOS16 operating system on Monday included the news that the new version will include Apple’s widely expected entry in the hot buy now, pay later market. Available in the U.S. market, Apple Pay Later will be accepted at all places that take Apple Pay …

Luma Health Inc. debuted LumaPay, which allows patients to pay medical bills via text messages.U.S.-based payments provider FreedomPay said it is working with Network International to provide digital-payment capability to the hospitality industry in the Middle East and Africa region.Canada-based Kapsch TrafficCom announced it has now manufactured 100 million toll-payment transponders, which are used in …

Square intrigued the payments industry a decade ago when it emerged to provide small sellers with a simple dongle they could attach to a mobile phone to accept card payments. Now Square says it’s moving to the next step. The company announced Thursday that later this year it will adopt …

Visa Inc. has collaborated with working-capital platform Fundbox to launch the Fundbox Flex Visa debit card, issued by Pathward N.A.KindTap Technologies, a payments provider specializing in the cannabis industry, has integrated with Dispense, an e-commerce platform, to allow merchants using Dispense to accept credit card and automated clearing house payments …

To expand its iGaming business and revitalize its digital-wallet business, Paysafe Ltd. on Monday announced it is increasing the wagering limit for high-stakes online gamblers using its Skrill USA wallet to fund their iGaming accounts.  The feature is expected to appeal to high rollers who make five- and six-figures wagers. …

Having weathered an industrywide downturn in sales that began during the third quarter of 2021, cannabis-payments processor POSaBIT Systems Corp. late Thursday reported strong first-quarter sales and revenue. Transactions totaled $103 million, a 61% increase from the same period last year, and revenues totaled $6.4 million, up 79%. Same-store sales …