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Despite predictions that buy now, pay later loans will account for $680 billion in transactions by 2025, or about 12% of all e-commerce sales, the industry remains on a potential slippery slope when it comes to consumer protections, says a paper issued Monday by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at …
April, 2022
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18 April
Interchange Increases Will Exacerbate Inflation, a Growing List of Merchant Groups Contend
One of the country’s biggest merchant associations on Monday joined a growing chorus of voices arguing fee increases planned by the major card networks for this month will exacerbate inflation. “American consumers are struggling under the worst inflation in four decades, and these increases would only make the situation worse,” …
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18 April
Sila’s Instant Settlement Service and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/18/22
Sila Inc., a software platform for fintechs, launched Instant Settlement, a service that offers immediate access to automated clearing house debits executed on its platform.Canada-based business-to-business payments platform Versapay announced it has closed on its acquisition of U.S.-based DadeSystems, an accounts-receivable software specialist. Terms were not disclosed.Synchrony Financial reported first-quarter net earnings of …
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15 April
Working With Cross River Bank, Revolut Expands Its Footprint in the U.S. Market
Revolut Ltd. continues its expansion in the United States, announcing on Friday it is partnering with technology infrastructure provider Cross River Bank to expand access to financial services to Revolut customers in the U.S. and enable Revolut to scale and expand across business verticals in the country, including credit. As …
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15 April
Lawmakers May Be Smarter About Payments, But Providers Can’t Let Their Guard Down
Be careful what you wish for. For years, payments processors have contended that state and local lawmakers and regulators would enact better regulations if they were better-informed about how payments work. The good news is that’s now happening, said Kim Ford, senior vice president of government relations at Fiserv Inc. …
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15 April
Restaurant Chain Everbowl To Accept Bitcoin Payments and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/15/22
Restaurant chain Everbowl said it will accept franchise-fee payments in Bitcoin starting today. The 6-year-old company has 50 locations and plans to open more than 150 additional ones over the next three years.Gemini, a cryptocurrency platform to buy, sell, earn, and store crypto, said its Gemini Credit Card is now available in …
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14 April
There Are No Signs the Chip Shortage Is Easing, the U.S. Payments Forum Says
The microchip shortage that has plagued point-of-sale terminal makers since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of abating. Despite forecasts that chip supply would not begin to start catching up to demand until mid-2022, terminal makers should continue to plan for shortages at least through 2023, according …
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14 April
Often Overlooked, Checkout Is Assuming New Significance in Payments, Experts Say
Customer checkout, whether online or at a store, can be taken for granted by merchants and payments firms alike. That’s a big mistake, according to a panel of experts who spoke Wednesday about new opportunities—and threats—lurking in checkout buttons. For one thing, checkouts can represent a battleground in which players …
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14 April
Everyware Launches Pay By Text and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/14/22
Everyware Worldwide Inc., a contactless payments and customer engagement company, announced its Pay By Text service, which enables consumers to use a cell phone number to make a payment. The service relies on Visa Inc.’s Token ID service.Insurity’s Sure Claims Payments platform will provide digital-payment options on workers’ compensation claims for Victory …
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13 April
Data Breaches Soar, Remaining on the Rise For the Third Consecutive Year
After setting an all-time high in 2021, data breaches show no signs of slowing down in 2022. The number of known data breaches in the United States during the first quarter of 2022 totaled 404, a 14% increase from the same period a year earlier, according to the Identity Theft …