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With e-commerce sales booming, payments players are looking for combinations that can keep online customers engaged and add even more buyers to their ranks. An example emerged Thursday morning as Shopify Inc. and Affirm Inc. announced Affirm’s buy now, pay later service is now available to “hundreds of thousands” of U.S. …
June, 2021
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10 June
Uplift’s BNPL Bet on Vegas.com and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/10/21
Buy now, pay later provider Uplift Inc. said its service has been integrated with Vegas.com, a travel site.In related news, buy now, pay later provider Splitit said its service is now available on the ChargeAfter platform, which offers merchants a variety of consumer financing methods.Mastercard Inc. said it has closed on its $850-million acquisition of Ekata …
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9 June
A Surcharging Bill Advances to the Colorado Governor’s Desk
Soon, there might be just two states that prohibit credit card surcharging with the passage Tuesday of a bill in Colorado that would permit the pricing strategy. The bill, SB21-091, passed both the Colorado House and Senate and now moves to Governor Jared Polis’s desk. He has 30 days to …
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9 June
U.S. Consumer Spending Capped a Year-Long Recovery With a Strong May Reading, Visa Says
Consumer spending has now been recovering for a full year from the impact of Covid-19, according to a report released on Wednesday by Visa Inc. The card network’s U.S. Spending Momentum Index, which it began releasing publicly last month, registered a reading of 123.3 for May. That number indicates 59% …
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9 June
86% Abandon Shopping Carts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/9/21
A survey from Fast, an online checkout provider, found that 86% of U.S. shoppers have abandoned an online shopping cart. Of the 1,004 consumers surveyed earlier this month, 55% said they would be more likely to make an online purchase if there was a quicker, easier way to buy directly from …
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8 June
Omnichannel Processing Takes Another Step as Wix.com Enters the Fray
The trend toward providing merchants technology that unites their digital and physical payments acceptance and allows them to manage their operations from a single platform got another boost Tuesday with Israel-based Wix.com Inc.’s introduction of Wix POS. The solution allows merchants to accept in-store and online payments, including contactless and chip …
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8 June
Eye on Mobile: Keys And IDs Come to Apple Wallet, And Google Pay Pulls Into ParkMobile
One way to boost mobile-wallet usage for functions like payments is to more tightly integrate the apps into users’ daily lives. Apple Inc. followed that script with its preview on Monday of an update for watchOS8, the brains behind its Apple Watch. This fall, the refresh will allow users to …
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8 June
PayNearMe Adds Walmart as Bill Pay Locations and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/8/21
PayNearMe, which enables cash payments as well as card, ACH, Apple Pay, and Google Pay payments, said its customers will be able to complete bill payment transactions at participating Walmart Inc. locations beginning in August. The deal is through a partnership with Green Dot Corp.Member Driven Technologies, a credit union …
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7 June
Lightspeed’s Latest Acquisitions Position the Processor to Become An Omnichannel Platform
As part of its strategy to create an all-encompassing platform for merchants and their suppliers, Lightspeed POS Inc. on Monday announced the acquisition of two companies: Ecwid Inc., a consumer e-commerce platform, and NuOrder Inc., an e-commerce platform for suppliers, for a combined $925 million in cash and equity in …
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7 June
VizyPay Opens Its Cash-Discount App Generally to Merchants Using Clover Devices
Pundits have predicted for months that cash acceptance will decline markedly as consumers rush into electronic payments. But sellers view cash as a less-expensive option for them, and some payments providers are looking to cater to that view. On Monday, VizyPay LLC said it is opening its cash-discount app to …