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Consumers may not realize it, but their mobile phone is a gateway for criminals to take over their bank accounts. In a fast-growing scam known as SIM swapping, criminals transfer the phone number associated with a consumer’s mobile phone to the SIM card embedded in a mobile phone in their …
June, 2017
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16 June
CFPB Considers Another Prepaid Rule Delay and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued a proposal adjusting certain provisions of its massive rule for prepaid accounts and asking for comment on whether the effective date for the rule should be delayed a second time. The proposed adjustments concern requirements for error resolution on unregistered accounts and wider flexibility for credit …
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15 June
FICO Releases Card Compromise Manager and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Cavendish Asset Management, the biggest investor in mobile-banking and payments technology provider Monitise plc, said it will vote against the planned buyout of Monitise by Fiserv Inc. because the U.S. financial-institution processor’s $89 million offer is too low, Reuters reported. • Fair Issac Corp. (FICO) released the FICO Card Compromise Manager, a service …
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15 June
Gilbarco Announces the First U.S. EMV Chip Card Transaction From a Fuel Pump
The U.S. conversion to EMV chip card payments took a step forward Thursday when fuel-pump maker Gilbarco Veeder-Root announced what it says is the first EMV chip card transaction from a fuel dispenser. The transaction took place at a 49 Fuels gas station in Burlington, N.C., at an undisclosed time. …
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15 June
Amazon’s New Prime Reload Service Could Crimp Card Issuers in Two Ways
By Peter Lucas @DTPaymentNews With the launch of its Prime Reload rewards service, Amazon.com Inc. has positioned itself to deal a serious blow to bank card issuers’ revenues earned from interchange on Amazon.com purchases, and limit the visibility banks have into their cardholders’ behavior on the e-commerce giant’s Web site. …
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15 June
Visa, Mastercard Reach Surcharging Settlement in Canada
Canadian merchants that accept Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. credit cards soon will be able to add a surcharge to some transactions following a settlement reached this week. The settlement, which stems from a 2011 class-action lawsuit against Visa, Mastercard, and a number of card-issuing banks alleging excessive fees, calls …
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14 June
How Involuntary Churn Threatens the Growing Subscription Payments Model
The allure of subscription payments has captured the fancy of merchants and payments companies alike, but churn—the loss of a paying customer—may not only affect revenue, but hamper innovation, finds “The Art and Science of Reducing Involuntary Subscriber Churn” report released Wednesday by Digital River Inc. The report, which canvassed …
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14 June
With the Launch of Zelle, Banks Tell Tech-Centric P2P Competitors, ‘It’s Game On’
By Peter Lucas@DTPaymentNews If banks are to gain the upper hand in the hotly contested person-to-person payments market, the Zelle network, which launched earlier this week, must make good on its promise of real-time payments while allowing consumers to complete P2P payments in the most intuitive way possible, payments experts …
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14 June
North American Bancard Adds Partner and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Amazon.com Inc. introduced Prime Reload, a service that lets Amazon Prime members earn a 2% reward when they reload their Amazon Gift Card balance with a debit card. The reward is added to the gift card balance. Users must give Amazon their debit card, bank-account, and bank-routing numbers when they …
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13 June
Eye on Acquisitions: Fiserv To Buy Monitise; Pin4 Takes Controlling Stake in HalCash International
By Jim Daly and Kevin Woodward@DTPaymentNews Financial-institution processor Fiserv Inc. reported Tuesday that it plans to buy United Kingdom-based Monitise plc, a faded star of the early mobile-banking and payments era that still has some valuable technology, for £70 million ($89 million) in cash. And HalCash North America, which goes …
