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A Pair of Acquisitions Propel Shift4 Into Blockchain And Cross-Border Processing

Shift4 Payments Inc. early Tuesday said it has concluded agreements to acquire international e-commerce acquirer Finaro and cryptocurrency-based donation platform Giving Block in deals valued at $875 million in cash and stock, including future earnout provisions. The latter deal has already closed, while Allentown, Pa.-based Shift4 expects to close the …

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Worldline Says It’s Working out a Deal to Sell Its Ingenico Unit to Asset Manager Apollo

Two years after it acquired the big point-of-sale technology company Ingenico S.A., the French processing giant Worldline S.A. has launched negotiations to sell the business to the asset-management firm Apollo Global Management Inc. The terms worked out so far, based on a binding offer from New York-based Apollo, call for …

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Amazon Comes to Terms With Visa After Dropping Its Threat to Ban Visa Cards in the U.K.

With a crucial card-acceptance market at stake, Amazon.com Inc. has reportedly struck a deal with Visa Inc. to continue taking Visa cards issued in the United Kingdom. The agreement comes nearly a month after Amazon dropped a threat to stop taking the cards and said it would negotiate with Visa. That …

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Affirm Logs Big Gains From Its Shopify And Amazon Deals While Addressing a CFPB Probe

When it comes to fast growth, it doesn’t hurt to have huge merchant platforms like Amazon.com Inc. and Shopify Inc. in your corner, a proposition Affirm Inc. underscored late Thursday as it reported huge increases in merchandise volume, active users, and other indicators. “We feel great about our progress,” said …

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The Fed Releases Some FedNow Fees and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/28/22

The Federal Reserve’s FedNow real-time payments platform will charge a monthly $25 participation fee for each receiving routing transit number, 4.5 cents per credit transfer to be paid by sender, and a penny for a request for payment message, paid by requestor. The Fed expects to release a full fee schedule later this …

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Mastercard: All in on Open Banking, But Not on Amazon’s Fee Dispute With Visa

Top executives at Mastercard Inc. made it plain early Thursday the card network is determined to develop its account-to-account payment capabilities, while maintaining its distance from the dispute between its rival Visa Inc. and the e-commerce juggernaut Amazon.com Inc. over transaction pricing. “That’s fundamentally a question for Visa and Amazon,” …

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Amazon’s Acceptance Ban Got Visa’s Attention in the U.K. Now What Will Negotiations Likely Yield?

Amazon.com Inc.’s decision to pull back from its threat to stop accepting Visa cards issued in the United Kingdom may have evoked a sigh of relief among some consumers, not to mention at Visa itself, but it also could betoken some complex dynamics behind the decision-making at both corporate giants. …

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Eye on Crypto: BBTV Offers Crypto ‘at Scale’ to Content Creators; a Nuvei Paper Sizes up Crypto

One of the most receptive markets for cryptocurrency could be that for content creators, most of whom are self-employed and looking for fast and reliable ways to get paid. That’s what BBTV Holdings Inc. figures, and on Wednesday the video platform launched Pay to Crypto to send payments to marketers on …

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Consumers Stick With Banks for Years, While Some Bear Hefty Account Fees, Bankrate Says

The basis of digital payments is typically an account at a financial institution, which can hand these institutions quite a bit of influence over payment activity. It turns out, though, that consumers like to stick with their bank once they’ve opened an account. Even among persons aged 18 to 34, …

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LINGA rOS and Evertec Pursue Hospitality Market and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/30/21

LINGA rOS, a provider of restaurant point-of-sale technology, said it will work with Evertec Inc., a payments processor concentrated in the Caribbean and Latin America, to serve the hospitality market in those regions.Unattended payments provider Cantaloupe Inc. announced Enhance, an artificial intelligence and machine learning technology-based service from Hivery, a data-science company, …

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