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The Pandemic Has Stoked Merchant Risk Along With Contactless Payments
With the Covid-19 pandemic accelerating consumers’ use of contactless cards and mobile wallets, merchants can expect hackers to target contactless transaction data at the point-of-sale, says Ruston Miles, founder and advisor at Atlanta-based Bluefin Payment Systems LLC. The main point of vulnerability in a contactless environment at the physical point-of-sale …
Read More »Credit Union Data Point to Robust Growth for Wallet, Contactless Card, And Online Activity
More evidence emerged Monday that, for all of its horrors, the coronavirus has been a boon for mobile wallets and for contactless payments generally. Wallets, which struggled to win consumer adoption in the United States even with backing from popular tech firms like Apple Inc. and Google, are increasingly turning …
Read More »Movie Chain Promotes Contactless Payments as It Reopens and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/14/20
Movie theater chain Cinemark Holdings Inc. announced it is encouraging consumers to use contactless payments when it reopens its locations beginning Friday.Curb, a mobile platform for taxi-ride hailing and payments, said the city of Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection is the first client for a new service aimed at …
Read More »Eye on Dining POS; Wynn Resorts Add Contactless Options; Fortis and Blue Dog Merge
Eye on Contactless: Touchless Comes to Wynn Resorts And Klarna Adds a Google Pay Option
More contactless payment options are coming for Las Vegas visitors and shoppers who want to make installment purchases in stores. FreedomPay says it has installed contactless and touchless payment systems at more than 100 venues at the Wynn Las Vegas and Encore Boston Harbor resorts. Meanwhile, installment-payment provider Klarna AB …
Read More »Kroger To Test Contactless Payment Acceptance and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/7/20
The Kroger Co. is testing contactless payments at some of its QFC (Quality Food Center) locations. The test includes acceptance of Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, Fitbit Pay, mobile banking apps, and contactless NFC cards. Kroger already accepts its Kroger Pay app. The QFC division is based in Seattle.ATM operator Cardtronics …
Read More »E-Commerce Helps Buoy FIS; The Draw of Contactless Payments; Money 20/20 Canceled, Returning in 2021
Consumers Would Switch Merchants for a Contactless Payment Option, Says a Visa Survey
Contactless payments apparently have sway with U.S. consumers. Fifty-four percent of them would switch to a new store that offers contactless payments, according to a global survey by Visa Inc. measuring changes in payments habits in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. The effects of the pandemic, and the resulting …
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