In step with the growth of ecommerce sales is the increasing number of transactions that credit and debit card issuers request merchants to charge back because cardholders claim a problem of some kind. Sellers of all types of goods and services suffer these requests. The fastest growing claims for chargebacks are purchases considered to be […]
Buy now, pay later installment financing for purchases made online and in-store is becoming a payment option consumers worldwide expect to have, even in markets that offer revolving credit cards. While specialist fintechs that offer BNPL installment payments have been growing rapidly in recent years, the number of consumers with credit and debit cards is […]
Skeps provides technology on a white-label basis that other companies can use to deliver buy now, pay later (BNPL) point-of-sale financing programs to merchants. The BNPL technology operates on a blockchain. Within their own environment, lenders make available to Skeps a byte code version of their risk models. The private blockchain is used to execute […]
From January 1 to June 30, 2021, Visa, UnionPay, Mastercard, JCB, Diners Club/Discover and American Express brand credit, debit and prepaid cards collectively generated 259.47 billion purchase transactions for goods and services worldwide. This was up 31.9% from the same period in 2020. UnionPay restated downward its midyear 2020 figures from those that we published […]
The UnionPay International (UPI) subsidiary of China UnionPay plans to grow its business outside of China through a cardholder and merchant processing partnership with Fiserv. The companies signed a contract in October 2021. The partnership will be ready to serve new financial institution and multinational merchant customers later this year. Fiserv is the largest issuer […]
RSA Security was sold to a consortium led by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group in September 2020. In June 2021, RSA set up its fraud & risk intelligence business as a stand-alone company called Outseer. The new company holds payment authentication, fraud management and account monitoring assets that support digital commerce for financial institutions […]
The Governor of Colorado said that the state will become the first in the U.S. to accept cryptocurrency for payment of state taxes and fees. Local legislators in Arizona and Wyoming drafted similar proposals. Sling, the Dish-owned streaming service, partnered with BitPay to accept cryptocurrency payments including Bitcoin, Ethereum and DogeCoin for its monthly subscription […]
The Terminals, Solutions & Services (TSS) business line of merchant acquirer Worldline will be sold to private equity funds manager Apollo, an alternative asset manager, for $1.92 billion (€1.70 billion) in cash up front if, as expected, the transaction closes in the second half of this year. The value of the deal could increase by […]
Later this year, Samsung Semiconductors will offer card manufacturers a single chip (S3B512C) that integrates the three functions needed to create biometric authentication cards—fingerprint sensor, secure element (SE) and secure processor. Currently, biometric payment cards require two and sometimes three chips to deliver the added cardholder authentication security. The SE in S3B512C is certified for […]
Consumers with American Express Platinum cards in the U.S. have been offered the option of swapping their existing cards for one of two new designs shown here. Those designs were created by American artists Kehinde Wiley and Julie Mehretu and are called Platinum X followed by the artist’s name. Wiley is best known for painting […]
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