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With his eponymous Durbin Amendment, passed into law just over a decade ago, Illinois’s senior senator intended to hurt large banks, along with Visa and Mastercard. The text, however, couldn’t be as expressly punitive as Durbin might have liked. He would likely have preferred capping debit interchange and network acquirer …
July, 2021
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8 July
As Buy Now, Pay Later Usage Rises, It Bids to Become an ‘Option’ Rather Than Just a ‘Sweetener’
Consumer usage of buy now, pay later has increased significantly over the last couple of years. Research from Auriemma Consulting Group Inc. reveals the number of debit card holders offered a BNPL option in-store or online increased more than 10 percentage points between the first quarter of 2019 and the …
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8 July
June Retail Sales up 11% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/8/21
U.S. retail sales increased 11% in June from June 2020, according to the latest Mastercard Inc. SpendingPulse report. They were up 10.4% compared to June 2019. E-commerce sales increased 8.3% year-over-year and were up 95% over June 2019.Payments provider Paysafe Ltd. launched a program that lets travel businesses accepting consumer payments to use a …
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7 July
Eye On Payments for Professions: New Initiatives From DepositLink, LawPay, And Repay
With the Covid-19 pandemic accelerating the adoption of digital payments, it was only a matter of time before payments providers began pushing the technology beyond mainstream merchants, such as retailers and restaurants, and down to professions with specialized needs, such as realtors, attorneys, and healthcare providers. DepositLink Inc., a Boston-based …
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7 July
Splitit Adds BNPL In-Store Option and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/7/21
As consumers return to physical stores, Splitit USA Inc., a buy now, pay later provider, announced it is making its service available in-store and including availability with Apple Pay and Google Pay.Fly Now Pay Later, a United Kingdom-based fintech, announced a deal with Cross River Bank in New Jersey that will …
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6 July
BlocPal And OneFeather Team to Deliver Services Via Mobile Wallets to Canada’s Indigenous People
As part of its goal to provide unbanked and underbanked consumers affordable digital access to financial services through a single application, BlocPal International Inc. has partnered with OneFeather, a Victoria, British Columbia-based provider of digital services to indigenous people in Canada, to introduce the OneFeather app in that country. The …
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6 July
Eye on Acquiring: EVO Links With KAL for ATMs in Europe, While Square Kicks off in France
Atlanta-based EVO Payments Inc. is working with global ATM technology provider KAL to allow banks and independent ATM deployers to quickly set up ATMs anywhere in Europe. The new service combines Germany-based KAL’s ATM software with EVO’s payments network, the parties said Tuesday. “We have created a highly efficient method …
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2 July
Riskified Files for an IPO; Lightspeed Closes Its NuOrder Deal
Fraud-management platform Riskified Ltd. has filed for an initial public offering of its Class A Ordinary Shares. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC are the lead underwriters. Barclays Capital Inc., KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., Piper Sandler & Co., Truist Securities, Inc., …
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2 July
PayPal’s U.S. POS Thrust With Zettle May Have Been ‘Inevitable,’ But It Faces Tough Rivalry
PayPal Holdings Inc.’s decision to bring its Zettle point-of-sale technology to the U.S. market may not surprise observers, but the move presents some formidable challenges, chiefly in the form of the existing competition, some observers say. At the same time, they add, Zettle brings a potent brand that fills a …
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2 July
R1 RCM Finalizes VisitPay Acquisitions and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/2/21
Health-care technology provider R1 RCM Inc. has closed on its acquisition of VisitPay LLC, a platform specializing in medical payments. R1 announced in early May it would acquire VisitPay for approximately $300 million in cash.Personal-finance app provider Charlie Finance Co. announced new services, including DirectPay, which lets users link credit cards to the app …
