News

July, 2017

• 6 July

  Publicly Held Payments Companies Rewarded Investors in 2017’s First Half

  

  The stock market has had a pretty good run so far this year, but shares of publicly traded payments firms are doing even better than the overall market. A group of thirty payment-related stocks tracked by Chicago-based Barrington Research Associates Inc. posted a mean return of 23.86% for the first …
• 6 July

  Upserve Notes Investment by Vista and other Digital Transactions News briefs

  

  Merchant cash-advance provider CAN Capital Inc. said it has returned to funding following a recapitalization by Varadero Capital, an alternative asset manager. CAN Capital said it will immediately begin funding small merchants eligible for renewal. It will work with a select set of sales partners for new merchant advances. Its products include term …
• 5 July

  Aiming for Global Scale, Vantiv Agrees to Buy Worldpay for $9.9 Billion

  

  In a play for scale in a rapidly expanding e-commerce market, Vantiv Inc. on Wednesday agreed to buy the United Kingdom-based processor Worldpay Group plc for approximately $9.9 billion. JPMorgan Chase & Co., which had also expressed interest in Worldpay, has withdrawn from the bidding. The boards of the two …
• 5 July

  Mobile-Wallet Payments Topped 1 Billion by End of 2015, Latest Fed Data Show

  

  Mobile-wallet transactions in the United States grew 333% from 2012 through 2015, albeit on a relatively small base, according to data released Friday by the Federal Reserve. Wallets generated 1.3 billion payments in 2015, the Fed data show, versus 300 million transactions three years earlier. That robust rate of growth …
• 5 July

  With Transaction Time Critical, a Strawhecker Platform Monitors Gateway Performance

  

  What’s the measure of a well-performing payment gateway? Time. Or, rather a lack of time. Gateways, which route online transactions to one of multiple payment processors, are judged on their speediness and reliability. That’s why The Strawhecker Group, an Omaha, Neb.-based payments consultancy, started its Gateway Enterprise Metrics platform. The …
• 5 July

  Evertec Completes EFT Group Acquisition and other Digital Transactions News briefs

  

  Puerto Rico-based payment processor Evertec Inc. completed its $38.5 million acquisition of Chile-based EFT Group S.A., which uses the PayGroup brand. PayGroup provides payment processing and software services to financial institutions throughout Latin America. Alipay, a mobile wallet used primarily in China and abroad by Chinese travelers, said Chinese food supplier Han Feng Inc., …
• 3 July

  As July 4 Looms, Fireworks Stores Get Set for Hordes of Customers Armed With EMV Cards

  

  As Independence Day nears with all its festivities, fireworks stores are preparing for their largest selling season of the year with EMV chip card acceptance. It evoked a sigh of relief from Bill Weimer, vice president and general counsel of Phantom Fireworks, when the company’s point-of-sale system achieved EMV compliance. …
• 3 July

  POS Portal Acquisition Will Add Payments Components to ScanSource’s Offerings

  

  The pending $145 million acquisition of point-of-sale terminal and equipment distributor POS Portal by ScanSource Inc. will bring together two companies that provide merchants with the equipment they need at checkout counters and back offices, but which have little overlap in their customer bases and distribution channels. Founded in 2000, …
• 3 July

  Interact Outage Resolved and other Digital Transactions News briefs

  

  Payments provider Harbortouch Payments LLC said its point-of-sale systems will be featured on new episodes of Spike TV’s “Bar Rescue” program in an exclusive deal with the show. Canada’s Interac debit network announced Sunday that its e-Transfer person-to-person payment service was back online after sustaining an “internal technical issue” that first appeared intermittently Thursday …
• 1 July

  How to Earn More Profit from Accepting High Risk Businesses

      There is a desire to make money and the desire to avoid risk. In between is where profit lies. As many ISOs and merchant sales agents know, higher volume, complex, higher risk and hard to place merchants represent a significant profit opportunity. But to benefit, you need the …