Online checkout service Paze said retailer GNC now accepts the digital wallet. Paze is a checkout service from Early Warning Services LLC. Digital gifting platform On Me signed a five-year agreement with Mastercard Inc. and received $1.7 million in pre-seed funding from venture capital firm Lerer Hippeau and Focal.VC to help it expand its retailer …
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OwlTing Group, a blockchain-technology company, is working with MoneyGram International Inc. to support cash-in transactions from local fiat currencies to USD Coin in its OwlPay Wallet Pro service at nearly 50,000 MoneyGram locations in 30 countries. OwlPay Wallet Pro is a blockchain-based, unhosted digital wallet that enables cross-border transactions. USD Coin is …
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Online sales continued to surge on Cyber Monday, totaling $13.3 billion and up 7.3% from Cyber Monday last year, according to Adobe Digital Insights. During the peak shopping hours of 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., consumers spent $15.8 million per minute. Cyber Monday capped a strong five-day sales period from …
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Payments acceptance provider Evolv Inc. said it will acquire payments provider EnzoPay and rename it Evolv Mid-Atlantic. Terms were not disclosed. The Fiserv Small Business Index dropped two points to 144 in November from October. Year-over-year small business sales increased 4.8% and total transactions were up 9.1%. Month-over-month sales were down 1.6% and transactions …
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Online shoppers spent a record $10.8 billion on Black Friday, a 10.2% increase from a year ago, according to preliminary data from Adobe Digital Insights. Online shoppers were especially active between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Friday, spending $11.3 million per minute during that period. Products seeing the strongest …
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Artificial intelligence emerged last year as a trending technology in payments, and now differences are starting to emerge in how businesses are viewing and deploying the technology, with small businesses showing the most enthusiasm, a new report from the big Atlanta-based processor Global Payments Inc. shows. In fact, some 94% …
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A new report from Surfshark, a provider of virtual private network services, finds that the United States far outpaces the top nine other major economies when it comes to the rate of breached payment card details. Based on 5.7 million payment card data points that have been compromised since 2004, …
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If the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act survives the legal challenges it faces, the law would “create significant market distortions,” says a recent report from the International Center for Law & Economics, a Portland, Ore.-based nonprofit research and policy center. Some of the most significant impacts on the market, according …
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Digital-payments platform Flexa is working with Electric Coin Co., to integrate Flexa technology into Electric Coin’s Zcash wallet in an effort to ease the use of digital currencies at U.S. retail locations that use Flexa technology. Licel Corp. said its Virtual Trusted Execution Environment (vTEE) has been approved by the standards body EMVCo …
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With the odds against the Credit Card Competition Act coming to a vote before the current Congress adjourns growing by the day, the bill’s future appears bleak. Prospects that the bill might advance received a major blow last week as Sen. Thom Tillis said during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing …
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