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Payment card technology provider CPI Card Group Inc. said it will provide its push-provisioning platform to customers of MEA Financial Enterprises LLC, a financial-services software provider. The CPI technology will allow cardholders to “push” their card credentials into digital wallets through a mobile-banking app. Canadian payments-technology provider VoPay International Inc. said it will expand …
March, 2024
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12 March
Evolving your Partner Model to Adapt to a Changing Payments Landscape
By Steven Velasquez Head and Senior Vice President of Partner Business Development – U.S. Bank | Elavon In recent years, there’s been a notable transformation in the key players shaping the payments ecosystem. Established models of acquiring banks are facing competition from emerging fintech and software companies eager to capture …
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12 March
Priority Technology Posts Record Earnings; Fortis Partners With WooCommerce for B2B Payments
Payments-technology provider Priority Technology Holdings Inc. posted record revenue of $755.6 million in 2023, up 13.9% from the previous year. The year was capped off by a record fourth quarter, during which Priority posted revenues of $199.3 million, a 12.2% increase from the same period a year earlier. In both …
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12 March
Mastercard Adds Subscription Tools; Recurly Sees 71% Growth in Software Subscriptions
Mastercard Inc. released Smart Subscriptions, a service to help issuers provide subscription-management tools to their cardholders. In related news, Recurly Inc., a subscription-services provider, released its consumer software subscription benchmark report. The Smart Subscriptions service builds on Mastercard’s Subscriptions Control product, released in 2023, to provide spend analysis, a way …
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12 March
TCH’s ACH Volume up 8% And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/12/24
The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC’s automated clearing house network, EPN, reported volume of more than 19 billion transactions for 2023, up 8%, with a total value of $52.4 trillion. Taulia, which provides technology to manage working capital, said it will incorporate into its Taulia Virtual Cards digital payments technology from Visa …
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11 March
SheerID And Payment Plugins Team Up to Provide Customer Verification for WooCommerce
SheerID Inc., a provider of identity-verification technology, and software developer Payment Plugins are collaborating to provide a consumer identity-verification solution for e-commerce platform provider WooCommerce. The deal will seek to enable WooCommerce merchants to reduce fraud by ensuring gated offers and discounts are being used by customers who are the …
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11 March
POS Tech for Dining Gains Yet More Momentum As Olo Goes to the Point of Sale And Par Unveils New M&A
The restaurant and related hospitality market has attracted plenty of attention the past few years from payment platforms, rendering the market one of the hottest in the field of digital payments and marketing. And the trend shows no signs of cooling off, as processors and related service providers look to …
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11 March
Apple Reverses Epic Decision and Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/11/24
Apple Inc. on Friday reversed course on Epic Games, saying it would allow the online game developer to build its own app store in Europe for Apple devices. The reversal came as the European Union’s Digital Markets Act took effect last week. In the U.S. market. Apple several years ago permitted Epic …
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8 March
U.S. Households Spend $25,513 Annually on the Top 10 Bills
Consumer bill payments for the 10 most essential bills sum to $25,513 annually on average, according to new data from doxo inc., a bill-payments provider. Doxo’s “2024 U.S. Household Bill Pay Report” says that total corresponds to 34% of a consumer’s income spent across mortgage or rent, auto loans, utilities, …
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8 March
Blockbuster Deals Aside, a Slower M&A Trend Continues to Grip the Payments Industry
The news nearly three weeks ago that Capital One Financial Corp. is looking to acquire Discover Financial Services stunned the payments industry. But even if the $35.3-billion deal closes in the coming months it will represent a notable exception in the middle of a continuing slowdown in merger-and-acquisition activity in …