Point-of-sale

June, 2022

• 14 June

  Sionic’s New Real-Time Payment Service and other Digital Transactions New briefs from 6/14/22

  

  Payments provider Sionic announced a service that allows consumers to pay merchants at the point of sale via real-time transfers from the consumer’s bank account to the merchant’s bank account. The service includes incentives merchants can use to induce consumers to use the service in preference to rewards credit cards.XTM Inc. announced it …
• 13 June

  How Small Businesses Are Including P2P Among the Payments Options They Accept

  

  Signs continue to mount that peer-to-peer payments are being adopted by businesses, and in turn could be encroaching on card payments at the point-of-sale.  A recent survey of 530 small businesses conducted by The Strawhecker Group and titled “P2P Payment: A Disruption To Plastic?” reveals that 82% of small businesses …
• 13 June

  AmEx Will Offer A Crypto Rewards Card Later This Year in Tandem With Abra

  

  Abra, a financial-services company specializing in digital assets, and American Express Co. have announced they will offer a rewards credit card that will let users pay with U.S. dollars but earn rewards in cryptocurrency. The new card, expected to debut late this year, will feature benefits such as Amex Offers, …
• 13 June

  Clover Sport in 300 Venues and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/13/22

  

  Fiserv Inc. said more than 300 sports and entertainment venues are now using Clover Sport to provide payment and marketing services to fans. Clover Sport is based on Fiserv’s Clover point-of-sale technology.MoneyGram International Inc. launched a service that supports money transfers via the Stellar Network’s public blockchain and USD Coin, a stablecoin from Circle Internet …
• 10 June

  Mastercard Opens up to NFT Purchases and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/10/22

  

  Mastercard Inc. said it is working with seven companies to enable its branded payment cards to be used for making non-fungible token purchases. NFTs are digital goods.Sardine, a provider of anti-fraud and compliance technology to fintechs, said it will work with cryptocurrency-technology provider Zero Hash to enable instant settlement on the …
• 9 June

  Apple’s Decision to Self-Finance Its BNPL Offering Raises Key Questions, Observers Say

  

  When Apple Inc. on Monday announced Apple Pay Later, its buy now, pay later program, the computing giant added an unexpected twist. The new program will not rely for financing on Goldman Sachs, Apple’s long-time partner for Apple Pay. Rather, Apple is setting up its own unit, to be called …
• 9 June

  May Online Spending up $1 Billion and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/9/22

  

  Online spending in May totaled $78.8 billion, more than $1 billion above April, said Adobe Inc. in its Adobe Digital Price Index.E-commerce platform WooCommerce said it has enhanced its card reader to add the ability for merchants to enter an order in the WooCommerce mobile app and automatically synchronize inventory between in-person and …
• 8 June

  Fiserv Brings Digital Checks to Businesses Through Its Carat Platform

  While companies have been steadily moving towards digitalized payments, checks remain a large portion of the business-to-business payment ecosystem. To help accelerate the trend away from paper checks and toward digital payments, Fiserv Inc. announced a partnership Wednesday with Checkbook Inc., a push-payments processor, to enable its Carat operating system …
• 8 June

  90% of Transactions Use EMV Tech and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/8/22

  

  EMVCo reported the number of EMV chip cards in circulation globally has grown by 1.1 billion over the past year to a total of 12 billion. Some 68% of all cards issued are now EMV-enabled and 90% of all card-present transactions use EMV chip technology, according to the global standards body.Paysafe …
• 7 June

  Android Specialist MagicCube Extends Dongle-Free Acceptance to Large Merchants

  

  MagicCube Inc. has chiefly aimed its tap-to-pay technology at small sellers to allow them to take card payments directly on an off-the-shelf mobile device. But on Monday the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company announced a version of its i-Accept platform for enterprise and big-box merchants.  To make i-Accept more attractive to …