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Visa Prepares to Launch Account-to-Account Payments in Europe—Starting in the...
Visa Inc. announced early Thursday it will launch account-to-account (A2A) payment capabilities in the United Kingdom in early 2025. The move will allow U.K. consumers paying bills to do so directly...
View ArticleChase Email Readies Cardholders for Paze and other Digital Transactions News...
Chase emailed its cardholders Friday that it will soon offer Paze, a new online checkout service from Early Warning Services LLC, and that eligible Chase credit and debit cards will be linked to Paze....
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Co-Branded Airline Credit Cards Figure in Federal Rewards Scrutiny
The U.S. Department of Transportation is looking into airline rewards programs with an eye on protecting consumers from potential unfair, deceptive, or anticompetitive practices, the department says....
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Adyen Rolls Out ‘Intelligent Routing’ in Response to Debit Network Choice
Adyen NV early Monday began launching what its calls an intelligent-routing service for debit cards intended to reduce merchants’ debit-acceptance costs and increase authorizations for purchases. The...
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Looking for ‘Growth in Key Markets,’ PayPal Signs Shopify for Card Processing
PayPal Holdings Inc. began working with the Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify Inc. two years ago in France, and now the two are bringing the act to the U.S. market. PayPal said early Monday it has...
View ArticleRepay’s Otelier Integration and other Digital Transactions News Briefs from...
Payments provider Repay Holdings Corp. said it has integrated its services with Otelier, a technology platform for the hospitality market, to enable vendor payments from the same platform where...
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Eye on Airlines: UATP Works with Klarna on BNPL; CellPoint Digital...
Airline payments powerhouse UATP says it will offer buy now, pay later services from Klarna AB. Meanwhile, CellPoint Digital has signed Arajet, a Dominican Republic startup airline as a...
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U.S. Merchants Pay the Highest Card Acceptance Costs in the World, a CMSPI...
Merchants in the United States paid $224 billion in card-acceptance costs in 2023, the highest toll for merchants in any country in the world, according to payment consultancy CMSPI’s State of the...
View ArticleCostco’s New Pump Payment Tech and other Digital Transactions News Briefs...
Retailing giant Costco Wholesale Corp. has contracted with technology company Vontier to install new payments devices and software at the chain’s 76 fueling stations in Canada, starting next month....
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U.S. Bank Credit and Debit Cards Are Now in the Paze Wallet
Credit and debit cards from U.S. Bank are now ready to use with Paze, the online checkout platform, which comes preloaded with access to up to 150 million payment cards. Paze is in the midst of a...
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Fraudsters Are Favoring Automated Bot And Authorized Fraud Attacks
Fraud attacks initiated by automated bots using artificially generated images, also known as deepfakes, are becoming a major problem in the payments industry, according to a report Wednesday from...
View ArticleGateway Reveals Card Breach and other Digital Transactions News Briefs from...
Payment gateway Slim CD Inc. revealed a data breach resulting from suspicious activity it became aware of on June 15. The investigation found unauthorized system access between Aug. 17, 2023, and June...
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Eye on E-Commerce: Bold Adopts Fastlane; DNA Payments Launches Apple Pay Express
Fast on the heels of PayPal Holdings Inc.’s launch of its Fastlane service for online transactions, e-commerce platforms are eyeing the expedited-checkout technology. Some are acting. Bold Commerce...
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Worldline Replaces Its Longtime CEO As the Global Processor’s Shares Plummet
The big French processor Worldline SA announced early Friday longtime chief executive Gilles Grapinet will leave the company effective Sept. 30. The company says the search for a successor will...
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Rain Technology Launches an ATM Privacy Solution
Rain Technology, a provider a directional-display technology, has developed a solution that aims at reducing the risk of onlookers visually stealing a consumer’s PIN at an ATM. The solution, called...
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Adyen Teams With Nayax to Support Digital Payments at EV Charging Stations
The Dutch processor Adyen NV and the Israel-based payments platform Nayax Ltd. announced early Monday they are teaming up to support digital payments for electric-vehicle charging stations around the...
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Crate & Barrel Teams With Adyen to Connect Its Offline And Online Sales Channels
Retail chain Crate & Barrel Holdings has partnered with Adyen NV to process payments for its 110 physical stores in the United States and Canada. The deal also covers processing for Crate &...
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Affirm Brings Buy Now, Pay Later Back to the Apple Wallet
Consumers with iPhones using the latest operating system now have access to Affirm Inc.’s installment-payments options when using Apple Pay at participating merchants. Released Monday as part of Apple...
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Cubic Launches a QR-Code Fare System; NMI Partners on Contactless Fares;...
Cubic Transportation Systems Inc. early Tuesday launched Umo ScanRide, a QR-code-based fare-collection solution for transit systems. To pay a fare using ScanRide, consumers scan a QR code with a...
View ArticleAlviere’s Loyalty Wallet and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/17/24
Alviere, a platform for embedded payments, has launched its Loyalty Wallets product, which features pay-by-bank functionality. The wallets can be funded by ACH transfer or direct deposit. Bank3, a...
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