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As Visa Looks to New Services, It Turns in a Positive June Quarter
Some Improvement for PayPal As a Stripe Takeover Offer Looms
Use Case Evolution Is One Factor in RTP’s Instant Payments Growth
Business-to-business payments were one of the first use cases for instant payments when the RTP network from The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC debuted in 2017. As more businesses and consumers want to use such services, the use cases are evolving, with digital wallets—like PayPal and Venmo—now being the largest …
Read More »Researcher TSG Teams With Stripe to Bring Data to Payments Players
Flexible Finance’s Bank Option and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/27/26
Flexible Finance Inc. announced it has submitted applications to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Utah Department of Financial Institutions for a charter for Flex Bank, a Utah state-chartered industrial bank. Flexible Finance is the company behind Flex Rent, which says it has processed more than $40 billion in rent payments for …
Read More »AmEx Posts an 8-Year High Increase in Consumer Billing
Eye on POS: Verifone’s Move Against Skimming; SUNMI’s Multifunctional POS
Verifone Inc. announced early Thursday it has been awarded a U. S. patent on technology that protects point-of-sale terminals and unattended payment devices from card skimming. The move comes as estimates indicate skimming losses grew 5% last year, reaching approximately $1 billion in the U.S. market. In skimming attacks, bad …
Read More »Zero Hash And Marqeta Work to Issue Cards Backed by Stablecoins
How Stablecoins Are Becoming Currency for ‘Everyday Transactions’
Stablecoins have been on payments companies’ radar screens for years, but only recently has the digital currency gained the credibility needed to move processors, merchants, and users toward using stablecoins for everyday payments. The latest example of this emerged early Tuesday with an announcement from Mesh, a San Francisco-based crypto …
Read More »Eye on POS: Datacap’s SureTap Debuts; Global POS Transactions to Top $41 Trillion by 2031
Datacap Systems Inc. is entering the softPOS arena with its new SureTap point-of-sale application, with which merchants can use their own devices. Any new transactions made with the application will contribute to the other bit of Monday’s POS news. The total value of global POS transactions are forecasted to reach …
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