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Buy now, pay later options for consumers continue to grow. Nascent airline Breeze Airways will offer Uplift Inc.’s BNPL option to its travelers and Mastercard Inc. announced several more retailers joined its Mastercard Installments program. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Uplift said it is the exclusive BNPL option for Breeze flights. The service …
March, 2022
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16 March
Rising Attack Rates Show How Fraudsters Are Zeroing in on Fintechs, According to Sift Data
Fraudsters targeted fintechs at an alarming rate in 2021, according to Sift Science Inc.’s first-quarter 2022 Digital Trust & Safety Index. The index reveals that the payment-fraud attack rate across fintechs within Sift’s network increased a whopping 70% in 2021 compared to 2020. The attack rate is defined as the …
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16 March
XTM Adds Apple Pay, Google Pay Support and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/16/22
Payments-technology provider XTM Inc. said it has added Apple Pay and Google Pay to its U.S. Today mobile wallet. The company says it has rolled out more than 100,000 wallets so far.Payments provider Nuvei Corp. said it will process payments for cryptocurrency by holders of the Ledger hardware wallet. With the agreement, holders can buy crypto …
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15 March
Eye On Earned Wage Access: CloudPay Partners With Visa; indi Rolls out Early Pay
CloudPay, a provider of employee payment solutions, is partnering with Visa Inc. to enable payroll to be deposited directly to employee debit or credit cards through Visa Direct, Visa Inc.’s real-time payment network The new service is expected to provide employees immediate access to their funds compared to the two …
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15 March
A Link to Plaid Lets Green Dot Leverage Open Banking for Its New GO2bank Mobile App
Underscoring the rising profile of open banking in consumers’ financial lives, Green Dot Corp. early Tuesday said it has completed an integration for its GO2bank mobile banking app with the Plaid Exchange network from Plaid Inc. The move will connect users of Green Dot’s app, launched only in January last …
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15 March
Mobile Tax Payments up 27% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/15/22
Payments provider ACI Worldwide Inc. said its data indicate the number of tax payments made via a mobile device has increased 27% over the same time last year, while the dollar value has climbed 40%. Tax payments via credit card are up 13%, and have increased 8% by debit card. Dollar value …
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14 March
BigCommerce Partners With Bolt to Offer Easier One-Click Checkout for Merchants
As e-commerce merchants look to make checkout faster and more convenient for a rising volume of online customers, e-commerce platform provider BigCommerce Holdings Inc. is partnering with Bolt Financial Inc., a developer of cloud-based checkout, payments, and fraud prevention solutions, to more quickly enable BigCommerce merchants of all sizes to …
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14 March
Affirm Metrics Outperform and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/14/22
Buy now, pay later specialist Affirm Inc. said its fiscal quarter-to-date financial metrics exceeded its expectations, leading it to revise its financial outlook. Affirm on Feb. 10 had expected its gross merchandise volume to be no more than $3.71 billion, but now says it will be at least that much.Aplazo, a buy …
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14 March
As Visa And Mastercard Ready New Interchange Schedules, Merchants Brace for the Impact
Having held off for the past two years, the country’s two biggest card networks are preparing revisions to their interchange schedules that at least one research firm says will cost U.S. merchants an estimated $475 million in additional transaction fees. Though Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. have historically revised their …
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11 March
Texas Roadhouse Partners With Ziosk to Roll Out a Tableside Ordering And Payment Platform
With consumers starting to dine out again, improving their dining experience through digital ordering and tableside payments solutions is becoming a pressing need for restaurants. Texas Roadhouse has become the latest restaurant chain to take the digital plunge, implementing Ziosk’s Cloud Commerce Platform for digital tableside ordering and payments. The …