Point-of-sale

April, 2023

• 19 April

  Square Launches Tap to Pay for Android in the United States And Five Other Markets

  

  Square, the point-of-sale and e-commerce unit of Block Inc., Wednesday announced the launch of Tap to Pay on Android for merchants in the United States, Australia, Ireland, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The technology will enable Square merchants to accept contactless payments with a compatible Android device, such as …
• 19 April

  Darwinium Evolves to San Francisco And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/19/23

  

  Darwinium, a fraud-prevention platform serving payments providers and fintechs from global offices in London and Sydney, announced its expansion into the U.S. market, including relocation of its corporate headquarters to San Francisco. Some 65% of treasury officers reported their organizations were victimized by attempted or actual fraud last year, the …
• 18 April

  It’s Continued Velocity for Faster Payments on the ACH As Same-Day Dollar Volume Grows 95%

  

  Faster-payments networks are forming to take advantage of a perceived appetite among consumers and businesses to move money at a quicker pace, but one such service that has been available since 2016 is reporting booming jumps in volume. Nacha, the Herndon, Va.-based organization that manages the nation’s automated clearing house …
• 18 April

   Fiserv’s Digital Debit Cards And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/18/23

  

  Fiserv Inc. launched a platform that can issue digital versions of a replacement debit card, enabling immediate use of a card that can be added to a digital wallet. Mobile-messaging provider Clickatell announced what it calls the world’s first chat-commerce platform as a service (CCPaaS). The platform allows customers to …
• 17 April

  GoDaddy Enables Small Merchants to Ditch the Dongle With the Addition of Tap to Pay for iPhone

  

  Web registrar GoDaddy Inc. continued its push into payments Monday by adding Apple Inc.’s Tap to Pay on iPhone to the GoDaddy Mobile App. The inclusion of Tap to Pay on the GoDaddy app will enable small businesses to accept contactless payments on an iPhone without a dongle. Merchants need …
• 17 April

  NCR Investigates a Ransomware Attack And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/17/23

  

  NCR Corp. said it is investigating a ransomware incident affecting one of its data centers and its Aloha cloud-based services for the hospitality industry. Its ATM, digital banking, payments and other retail services are not impacted. Huntington National Bank said it has extended Huntington ChoicePay to payments in higher education and business services. …
• 14 April

  Chargebacks911 Responds to Allegations it Undermined Chargeback Disputes

  

  Responding to allegations by the Federal Trade Commission and Florida’s attorney general that it used multiple techniques to prevent consumers from winning chargeback disputes, chargeback-management company Chargebacks911 on Friday released a statement saying the charges are unfounded. The FTC and Florida attorney general Ashley Moody sued Chargebacks911 on Wednesday alleging …
• 14 April

  Will Visa’s 3% Surcharge Cap, Set for April 15, Push Merchants to Cash Discounts?

  

  Visa Inc. is poised to lower on Saturday the amount a merchant can surcharge for transactions on its credit cards from a maximum of 4% to 3%, a move it announced early this year. Some observers acknowledge the reduction will happen, though Visa Inc. has not responded to Digital Transactions …
• 14 April

  Affirm Extends Stripe Agreement to Canada And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/14/23

  

  Buy now, pay later provider Affirm Inc. said it is extending to Canada its processing agreement with payments platform Stripe Inc. Payments fintech Alacriti said it will provide identity verification for real-time payments through fraud-solutions provider Socure. Payments-technology provider Central Payments renewed an agreement with Galileo Financial Technologies LLC to process for Central’s Open*CP Fintech API …
• 13 April

  Data Breaches Drop 13% And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/13/23

  

  The number of reported data compromises totaled 445 in the first quarter, a 13% decrease from the previous quarter, according to the latest report from the Identity Theft Resource Center. The number of victims decreased 64% in the same period. Health care breaches, at 81, led the quarter followed by financial services …