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Buy now, pay later, the now established installment-payment option, is finding favor among consumers facing higher prices. That’s the word from a new report from Forter, an online fraud-prevention provider, based on its latest survey. Twenty-five percent of the 2,000 U.S. consumers surveyed by Talker Research say they use BNPL …
June, 2024
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20 June
Topgolf Callaway in Visa Promo and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/20/24
Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp. announced a promotional agreement with Visa Inc., involving benefits and offers for holders of Block Inc.’s Visa-branded Cash App debit card. CasaPerks Technologies Inc. has launched CasaCash, a rewards program that can be offered by property owners to renters as an alternative to a program based on credit …
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19 June
Eye on Healthcare Payments: PatientPay Partners With Higher Standards; Vyne Dental’s Billing App
PatientPay, a payments provider for the health-care industry, has partnered with health-care processor Higher Standards Inc. to make its end-to-end billing and payment-acceptance billing solution available to Higher Standards clients. The partnership grew out of Higher Standards’ need for a technology partner that could provide billing and payment technology to …
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19 June
FEVO Picks Shift4 for Processing
FEVO Inc., an online shopping tool that enables consumers to share purchases with their friends, says it will use Shift4 Payments Inc. as its preferred payment processor for all music festivals and general-admission events. New York City-based FEVO’s model is built on enabling consumers to shop together without leaving a …
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19 June
Nuvei Advances Corporate Change and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/19/24
Shareholders in Nuvei Corp. approved the processor’s previously announced agreement to be acquired by Advent International LP for $34 per share in a move that will take the big processor private. The Financial Times reported that regulators in the European Union have accepted concessions from Apple Inc. that will allow competing payment platforms to access the …
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18 June
No Slowdown in Online Grocery’s Post-Pandemic Surge
Online grocery sales, which surged during the Covid pandemic as consumers avoided in-store shopping, continue to grow at a rapid pace, though the pandemic ended 13 months ago, according to the World Health Organization. Sales of groceries online, which include curbside pickup, increased 30% year over year in May, according …
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18 June
Apple Pay Later Is Shutting Down in Favor of Third-Party BNPL Providers
Apple Pay Later, the buy now, pay later product from Apple Inc. released just over a year ago, is shutting down. The move comes after installment-payment specialist Affirm Inc. confirmed it would be part of Apple Wallet when the tech giant’s annual software updates for iPhones and computers emerge this …
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18 June
ACI Notes Cross-Border Milestone and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/18/24
U.S.-based payments provider ACI Worldwide Inc. said its partnership with Stet, a Paris-based clearing and settlement system, processed more than 50 million real-time cross-border payments in the past 12 months. The companies expect that volume to grow more than 50% in the current year. Cross-border payments specialist Nium Pte. Ltd. said it is working …
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17 June
Q & A with the Sound Payments Leadership Team
What does Sound Payments do in the payments industry? Sound Payments is dedicated to listening to the voice of the customer to provide value-add innovative payment acceptance and point-of-sale technology solutions to ISOs and ISVs. Sound Payments is a software provider for niche markets and is processor agnostic. We have …
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17 June
A Fight Over an Illinois Interchange Prohibition Law Is Far From Over
Groups representing Illinois financial institutions, along with the Electronic Payments Coalition, say they will fight to overturn the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act, which was passed earlier this month and is set to go into effect July 1 next year. Opponents of the bill are continuing an ad campaign to …