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March, 2024

• 7 March

  Cautious Consumer Spending Depresses CPI Card Group’s Sales

  

  CPI Card Group Inc. posted $444.5 million in net sales in 2023, a 7% decrease from 2022. The card and payments solutions provider saw an even larger drop during the fourth quarter, posting net sales of $102.9 million, a 19% year-over-year decrease. CPI attributed the declines to cautious consumer spending, …
• 7 March

  PayPal Adds Tap to Pay on iPhone And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/7/24

  

  PayPal Holdings Inc. said Tap to Pay on iPhone is available for all Venmo business profile and PayPal Zettle users in the United States. Tap to Pay on iPhone enables merchants to accept contactless payments using an iPhone with no extra hardware, only a payments app. The service had been in …
• 6 March

  Follet Partners with GK Software; Transact Rolls Out a B2B Portal

  

  Follet Higher Education, an educational service provider and omnichannel retailer, has selected GK Software SE as its cloud-based point-of-sale provider for its more than 1,000 college campus and online stores in the United States and Canada. Follet will deploy such apps as GK Software’s OmniPOS, which supports mobile POS, self-check-out, …
• 6 March

  An Active Year Helps Boost Results for Canada’s Nuvei

  

  The big Montreal-based processor Nuvei Corp. has had a busy year since its headline acquisition early in 2023 of Atlanta-based Paya Holdings Inc., and late on Tuesday it disclosed how that activity has helped buoy its financial results. Nuvei, which was known until 2018 as Pivotal Payments, reported it processed …
• 6 March

  PayRange Battles Alleged Patent Misuse And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/6/24

  

  Unattended payments specialist PayRange Inc. said it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against CSC ServiceWorks, an operator of laundry machines in multi-family housing and college dorms. This is in addition to a previous patent infringement suit it filed in March 2023 against CSC ServiceWorks. In the new suit, PayRange seeks more than …
• 5 March

  Eye on Restaurants: SpotOn Adds a Marketing App; IHG Hotels & Resorts Partners With eTip

  

  Payment technology provider SpotOn Transact LLC looks to expand its footprint in the highly competitive business of restaurant payments with the introduction of SpotOn Marketing Assist, an app that automates email and social-media marketing campaigns for restaurants. The app—which integrates with Spot On’s SpotOn Restaurant POS, SpotOn Order, and SpotOn …
• 5 March

  CFPB’s New Card Late Fees Cap and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/5/24

  

  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule that caps late fees on credit card payments to $8, down from a typical $32. The rule goes into effect 60 days following its publication in the Federal Register. Other provisions include ending automatic annual inflation adjustment on the fee and requiring larger card …
• 4 March

  Zelle Posts Strong Growth for 2023 And Its Single Largest Quarter for Growth in Q4

  

  Zelle, the peer-to-peer payment network operated by Early Warning Services LLC, announced late Monday a 28% increase in transaction volume in 2023 and that the fourth quarter of 2023 was its single largest quarter based on volume since its launch in 2017. Overall, Zelle handled 2.9 billion transactions totaling $806 …
• 4 March

  Eye on Travel: AmEx’s New Virtual Card Integration for Small-Business Travel and Expenses; IHG Hotels Endorses Grazzy for Digital Tipping

  

  American Express Co. unveiled on Monday a new virtual card integration with AmEx Global Business Travel’s Neo1 platform for travel and spending management. And digital-tipping software developer Grazzy Inc. said IHG Hotels and Resorts has named it as an approved partner for providing tips to hotel employees electronically. The AmEx …
• 4 March

  COMMENTARY: The Only Sure Thing These Days Is the Need for Improved Cross-Border Payments

  

  There are a lot of conflicting economic forecasts about what lies ahead for the rest of 2024. Of course, it is said that economic forecasting exists only to validate astrology, but two things are certain: increased global trade and shifting populations due to migrations by higher-income-seeking migrant labor. Both of …