Worldline supports more than 1 million merchants in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia-Pacific. They generate nearly 30 billion transactions annually, including transactions handled as a third-party processor. The number of digital merchants exceeds 250,000. Those businesses generate more than 2.5 billion transactions annually.
Point-of-sale terminal shipments worldwide reached 148.3 million in 2022, up 4.5% over 2021. POS terminals counted include countertop, multilane, tablet and handheld devices with integrated chip and/or magnetic stripe card readers, unattended devices, terminals that can read QR codes and also accept cards and those that can read a biometric identifier and then facilitate a […]
Acquirers from two countries hit the 1 billion transaction mark for the first time: Akbank (Turkey) and Alfa Bank (Russia).
The company has grown at 200% annually over the last two years. It expects to process at least 100 million payments over the next 12 months.
Mastercard and Visa transactions processed by the 36 largest acquirers reached 19.94 billion, up 5% from 2021.
South Korea-based Hyundai has started to ship its entry-level Kona model to the US with a Hyundai Pay wallet built into the vehicle’s software.
Owners of the 48 largest portfolios of merchant card processing contracts in Latin America and the Caribbean (LA&C) in 2022 are ranked on page 11. Collectively, these merchant acquirers processed 39.49 billion Mastercard and Visa card transactions, up 20.7% from 2021.
An acquiring-as-a-service (AaaS) technology partnership between ACI Worldwide and Dock is rolling out to merchants in Latin America, beginning in Brazil.
ConnexPay, which was formed in 2017, designed a single platform to handle both card acceptance and payments for future-delivery-type merchants. They currently have 250 clients, including 20 outside the US.
American Express is the first US card issuer to partner with Skipify on that company’s Card Linking digital wallet, an ecommerce checkout product that has been quietly in development for nearly three years. Amex has invested in Skipify in three funding rounds since 2021.
Online merchants connected to Skipify offer a location to input an email address at checkout rather than entering a card number to initiate a purchase. Skipify initiates transactions by sending a one-time passcode (OTP) to the cardholder’s mobile phone via text or app.
