Payment processing

When deploying connected devices, firms much balance the mix of innovation and security, writes Pip Courcoux, sales and product manager for CLIQ Systems at Abloy UK.

Stripe has updated its products and made an acquisition to prep for new security standards it says will impact more than 300 million people, potentially giving Stripe the same kind of influence over European merchant technology that it enjoys in the U.S.

CV Systems’ COO Randy Schmidt, BHMI Chairman Jack Baldwin and Mickey Goldwasser, vice president of Payrailz, discuss challenges and opportunities, for faster payments, back office gaps, and cross-industry cooperation.

The Minneapolis bank reported mid- to high-single-digit improvement in those categories, but total loan growth was curbed by declines in CRE and other credit types.

Payments providers can use this announcement as a chance to evaluate their mobile payment offerings and gain a better understanding of consumers’ evolving expectations in order to better serve their merchants, writes Casey Bullock, general manager of global enterprise e-commerce for North America at Worldpay.

SnapPay has grown rapidly in its role as an acquirer and payments gateway for Chinese mobile payment acceptance in North America, and it is ready to show merchants the next step.

Payments technology provider Total System Services has signed a multiyear contract with Synovus Financial Corp. to provide payment processing and also deliver two new customer service platforms to the financial institution.

By Mastercard’s own reckoning, the point-of-sale financing space is a $1.8 trillion market in the U.S. alone, making its Vyze acquisition a natural way to pursue an opportunity that’s being gobbled up by fintechs and card alternatives.

Physical keys are still an important part of securing IoT payment systems, writes Pip Courcoux, sales and product manager for CLIQ Systems at Abloy UK.

As major payments M&A deals mount, some free agents are awaiting deals of their own — and one area where that’s most apparent is in debit and ATM networks.