Tuesday , April 16, 2024

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Grocer Coop Expands Instacart Deal With AI-Powered Shopping Carts

Grocery-ordering and -delivery provider Instacart says Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc., a food wholesaler, expanded its partnership to include e-commerce and same-day delivery services to grocers that belong to the cooperative. The broader deal also includes access to Caper Carts, Instacart’s artificial intelligence-enhanced smart shopping carts. More than 800 AWG grocers …

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Breeze Taps Barclays and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/26/24

Breeze Airways unveiled a credit card cobranded with Barclays US Consumer Bank. The card offers triple points on purchases of airfare and other items, including in-flight items. The Brussels-based financial-messaging body Swift said early testing of its early-stage central bank digital currency shows financial institutions can process a variety of transactions through CBDCs …

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COMMENTARY: Cap One’s Bid for Discover Will Lift Many Boats

Capital One’s proposed $35.3-billion acquisition of Discover will be a thunderclap for the debit-card, retail-banking, and payment-network markets. The Discover network has long been the number-five U.S. retail-payment network, after Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and PayPal. Since its acquisition of Diners Club from Citi in 2008, Discover has struggled as …

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X Gets More State OKs and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/25/24

X Payments LLC, the payments platform for the social-media network X (formerly Twitter), received money-transmitter licenses last week from New Mexico, Oregon, and Illinois, bringing to 22 the number of states that have approved the platform for money movement. Fleetcor Technologies Inc., a business-payments provider, said it has now renamed …

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Digital Wallets: Users Are Happier, But Adoption Still Lags Among Consumers And Merchants Alike

Customer satisfaction with digital wallets is on the rise, which is helping propel consumer adoption and usage, according to J.D. Power’s newly released 2024 Digital Wallet Satisfaction Study. Despite the increase in customer satisfaction, though, the study found wallets providers still have work to do to raise adoption among both …

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ParkHub and JustPark Combo and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/22/24

Parking management and payment providers ParkHub said it will merge with JustPark, a United Kingdom-based parking reservations and payments platform. Dallas-based ParkHub said the new organization serves more than 20 million drivers and more than 500 business-to-business clients representing more than $1 billion in booking volume. Terms were not disclosed. Payments provider North …

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Volume for the Top 50 ACH Banks And Credit Unions Increases 5.7% in 2023

The top 50 originating financial institutions on the automated clearing house network hit nearly 27.7 billion in payments in 2023, a 5.7% increase over 2022, Nacha says. Volume for the top 50 receiving FIs was almost 20 billion payments in 2023, a 6.4% increase from 2022. Herndon, Va.-based Nacha says …

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As Apple Opens up to Outside Payments, Big Tech Protests the Cost

Apple Inc. early Thursday said it has “fully complied” with a federal court ruling requiring the technology giant to permit app developers to process payments outside of Apple’s own system. The response came after five major technology companies on Wednesday filed a petition with the court protesting that Apple’s compliance …

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Synthetic Identity Tops the Hit Parade of Tactics To Commit Digital Fraud, TransUnion Finds

Synthetic identity fraud has become the fastest growing form of digital fraud, totaling $3.1 billion in 2023, up from $1.9 million in 2020, a 63% increase, according to TransUnion LLC’s 2024 State of Omnichannel Fraud Report. Criminals are using synthetic identities, which are created from a combination of real and …

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Digital Wallets A Powerhouse And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/21/24

Digital wallets accounted for $13.9 trillion in payments volume last year, or 50% of e-commerce and 30% of point-of-sale spending, according to Worldpay’s Global Payments Report 2024. This will grow to more than $25 trillion by 2027, or 49% of combined point-of-sale and online volume, the report forecasts. Automated clearing house …

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