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By Peter Lucas Visa and Mastercard are acting fast to dominate the rapidly developing tokenization business. Are juicy fees next? It’s been more than six months since Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. announced reciprocal access to one another’s tokenization engines. Pacts giving PayPal Holdings Inc. such access have emerged over …
June, 2017
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1 June
Faster Payments in the U.S. (As It Has Unfolded So Far)
By René Pelegero The Fed’s task force has made a lot of progress, and on some fronts the results look promising. So why does it seem like the creation story of Visa and Mastercard all over again? It has been a long time since the initial Faster Payments discussions in …
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1 June
Payment Regulations Aren’t Keeping Payments Safe
There are several reasons why you can’t rely on law and regulation, says Ed Adshead-Grant. Here’s where they fall short and what you should do about it. Initiatives like open banking and faster payments have ushered in a whole new era in the world of business-to-business payments. The industry is …
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1 June
First Data’s New Fraud-Detection Tool Features Real-Time Algorithm Updating
First Data Corp. is hoping that its scale—it says it processes more than 2,800 transactions per second coming from more than 6 million merchants—will give its new Fraud Detect service an edge in thwarting fraudulent transactions. Announced Thursday, Fraud Detect uses artificial intelligence and machine learning, fraud scoring, cybersecurity intelligence, …
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1 June
iPayment Launches Gateway and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Marking an end to American Express Co.’s cobranded card losing streak, hotel chain Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. named AmEx as its exclusive credit card issuer effective Jan. 1, according to Bloomberg. AmEx and Citigroup Inc., which took over issuance of the Costco Wholesale Corp. cobranded card from AmEx a year …
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1 June
As Sellers Adopt EMV And Apple Pay, Square Pushes Its EMV/Contactless Reader
With chip cards and contactless mobile transactions gradually working their way into more merchant checkouts, Square Inc. is pairing a couple of tried-and-true offers to push an 18-month-old card reader that handles both EMV and Apple Pay. In the latest wave of a promotional campaign that was announced in January, Square earlier …
May, 2017
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31 May
Banks And Non-Banks Play to Their Strengths As They Eye a $1.2 Trillion P2P Market
Financial institutions and third-party providers of digital person-to-person payments may have the same goal—ubiquity of service and adoption—but they’ll have to take different paths to get there, according to “Digital Person-to-Person Payments in the U.S.: The Competitive Landscape,” a report released last week by the Aite Group LLC. The P2P …
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31 May
Global Payments Supplies Online Car Purchase Tech and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• POS Portal Inc., a point-of-sale equipment distributor, said it is now supplying payment equipment via Retail Realm, a POS software distributor. • Merchant processor Global Payments Inc. said it is providing payment technology for Hyundai Motor UK’s “Click To Buy” platform, which lets consumers buy a car online from any participating …
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31 May
Android Pay Debuts for Canadian Debit and Credit Card Payments
The Android Pay mobile-payments service from Alphabet Inc.’s Google unit is now live or about to go live in Canada, payments companies and media outlets reported Wednesday. Canada’s Interac Association national debit network said that its Interac Debit service will be available for Android Pay mobile payments beginning June 5 …
