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By Kevin Woodward@DTPaymentNews NCR Corp. on Tuesday unveiled a redesigned app for its NCR Silver iPad-based point-of-sale system that eliminates 33 taps from the transaction process and skips the home page in favor of a fly-out menu.
January, 2017
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24 January
Remote Deposit Capture Provider Cachet Financial Solutions Seeks Equity and a New Name
Cachet Financial Solutions Inc., a small tech company best known for providing remote deposit capture services to banks and credit unions, is trying to raise nearly $14 million in new equity to shore up its finances while pivoting toward prepaid cards and facing a legal deadline to rebrand. In a …
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23 January
Report: Internet of Things Could Present an ‘Unmanageable Cybersecurity Risk’
Like other technology forecasters, Juniper Research in a new report predicts the Internet of Things is poised for explosive growth. But the IoT also represents “an unmanageable cybersecurity risk” unless its developers take preventative action, Juniper says. In its report, “Internet of Things for Security Providers: Opportunities, Strategies, & Market …
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23 January
DiningData Marks $1 Billion in Processing Volume and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Processing-software vendor Womply has launched an analytics tool called Retention Intelligence to help acquirers identify merchants likely to leave the portfolio. • A 2-year-old startup called diningData, which processes payments and analyzes data for restaurants, announced it is now handling $1 billion in annual volume. The company is a division of Hadfield …
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23 January
Eye on Travel: Host Card Emulation for Ticketing, And a Mobile Wallet Guide for Airlines
Travel providers have new options for accommodating how consumers use their smart phones to pay for travel. Ticketing-software vendor Rambus Ecebs has introduced a set of products for mobile ticketing that rely on host card emulation to load smart cards into smart phones. Host card emulation enables download of payment credentials via …
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20 January
AmEx Steps on the Marketing Gas Pedal To Help Fill Costco Void
Fourth-quarter profits and U.S. charge volume declined while marketing expenses increased for American Express Co. as the company continued to dig its way out of the hole left last year by the termination of its U.S. cobranding and acceptance pact with Costco Wholesale Corp. New York City-based AmEx reported Thursday …
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20 January
Dwolla Lines Up $6.8 Million in Funding and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Payments provider Dwolla Inc. announced a $6.85 million round of funding led by Union Square Ventures and Foundry Group. The funds will be used to expand sales and account-management operations at the company’s Des Moines, Iowa office. Dwolla also said it is moving its white-label products into a new collection of application …
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20 January
How Dwolla Turned Away from Consumer-Facing Payments to White-Label APIs
It’s taken about a year, but Dwolla Inc. has now executed a strategic shift away from handling online and mobile transactions directly for consumers who want to pay merchants and each other. Instead, the 8-year-old, Des Moines, Iowa-based company now focuses on selling programming to clients that want to process …
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19 January
With Help From Contactless, E-Payments Globally Could Be Taking a Bite out of Cash
The digital-payments revolution may finally be poised to relegate cash to the sidelines of finance. Worldwide, 471 billion so-called cashless transactions flowed through payments networks in 2015, a 52% increase since the end of 2011 and up 13% over 2014, according to numbers released this week by Retail Banking Research …
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19 January
Twitter Abandons its Buy Button and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Mastercard Inc. and investor and philanthropist George Soros announced plans “to explore private-sector solutions to societal challenges” by possibly creating a so-called social enterprise called Humanity Ventures that will apply commercial strategies to address such problems as joblessness and lack of access to health care and education. Soros might …
