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Bitpay, a provider of cryptocurrency-based payments services, said it is working with crypto-technology provider Banxa to enlarge access to payments using digital currency. Shield Compliance, a compliance provider for cannabis banking, issued an open letter to American Express, Discover, Mastercard, and Visa calling on the networks to permit financial institutions …
October, 2023
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24 October
Fiserv Touts a Link to Melio to Reach More Banks for Payments And Acquiring
Numbers from Fiserv Inc. early Tuesday indicate the big processor’s payments and network business for financial institutions is growing at a steady clip, with September-quarter revenue in that business up 5% year-over-year, to $1.71 billion in volume. Riding that wave, the company’s top brass late Monday announced a deal with …
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24 October
Blackhawk’s Rewards And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/24/23
Prepaid payments platform Blackhawk Network said it is working with customer-engagement provider Extole to enable digital rewards and incentives for Blackhawk client merchants. U.S.-based Beame Technologies Inc. said it is working with authentication platform LISNR to offer BeamPay, a mobile-payments service, in Cabo Verde, Africa. U.S.-based business-to-business payments platform Balance said it is working with Hokodo, …
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23 October
Rewards And Loyalty to Brands Still Drive Consumer Credit Use, Marqeta Finds
While rewards are the biggest reason consumers choose a credit card, cardholders believe issuers have more room for improvement when developing rewards programs, especially when it comes to personalization, according to Marqeta Inc.’s 2023 State of Credit report. The report reveals that 58% of consumers surveyed cited rewards as the …
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23 October
Visa’s AR Manager And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/23/23
Visa Inc. announced it will start a pilot in November for Visa AR Manager, a platform intended to automate more functions in commercial card acceptance. PayNearMe, a specialist in payments for iGaming and sports betting, will add to its MoneyLine platform the “Cardless Cash at ATM” feature from NCR Atleos Corp. …
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20 October
AmEx Puts Its Pandemic Exposure Firmly in the Past
Card companies with a heavy exposure to travel and entertainment spending took a beating during the pandemic, but that’s ancient history now so far as American Express Co. is concerned. The T&E giant early Friday reported its sixth consecutive quarter of record revenue, backed by strong cardholder spending and new …
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19 October
Discover Looks to a Resolution of Regulatory And Merchant Pricing Snafus
The top management at Discover Financial Inc. said early Thursday its issues with regulatory compliance and merchant overcharges continue to cast a shadow over the company but could be on the way to being solved. The problems, which included misclassification of merchants resulting in overcharges for card acceptance, came to …
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19 October
BNPL Is Broadening Its Audience To Include Financially Strong Borrowers, J.D. Power Finds
The audience for buy now, pay later loans is widening to include financially healthy consumers who don’t need the extended buying power BNPL loans provide. The reason, according to a report citing J.D. Power’s 2023 BNPL Satisfaction Study, released in August, is reasonable repayment terms. While some 28% of U.S. …
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18 October
On The Fly Taps BYOD for a New Hospitality POS Product
On The Fly POS’s latest product, called Ground Control, is making it easier for hospitality merchants to use their own devices for ordering and table management. The new app, with versions for both iOS and Android mobile devices, enables merchants to use their own hardware with an integrated software app …
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18 October
Health iPASS’s New Service And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/18/23
Health iPASS launched Health iPASS Cloud Payments, a processing service for health-care providers. Fiserv Inc. said it is leveraging its merchant-acceptance and card-issuing technology to ease embedded finance for client financial institutions. Metropolitan Commercial Bank said it will deploy cloud-based technology from Finzly to support payment processing via FedNow, Fedwire, and the automated …
