Payment processing

The success of Fiserv’s acquisition of First Data, FIS’ purchase of WorldPay, or Global Payments merger with TSYS rides on the companies’ ability to address merchants that are under extreme pressure.

Following its $2.3 billion IPO, payment processor Nexi made another large deal to scale its merchant services.

The Federal Reserve is investigating the second significant disruption in 2019 of a payments service administered by the U.S. central bank.

Customers will be able to use the service by clicking on the QR transactions option and using their camera to scan the code that appears on the app screen.

For most companies, no role within accounts payable focuses solely on handling errors, enablement, fielding phone calls, or escheatment, says Nvoicepay's Kristin Cardinali.

Adyen’s aggressive year of client and technology additions has been capped off by adding McDonald’s to its network, bringing in a merchant with a huge appetite for streamlined app-driven transactions.

Steve Streit, who founded the prepaid card pioneer Green Dot and spent two decades as its chief executive, has announced plans to retire as part of a shakeup at the top of the company.

Cybercrime has become harder to fight as it becomes more sophisticated. Criminals have deployed technology that can infiltrate a consumer's personal computer and copy parts of the underlying hardware and mimic typing speed, style and other computer habits of the user.

Drones and autonomous vehicles are making progress, but there's still expense and logistical hurdles to work out, says Roadie's Marc Gorlin.

Payrailz, a payments startup launched that leverages AI to streamline bill payments and money transfers, will integrate its platform with Mastercard Bill Pay Exchange to explore ways to enhance the consumer bill payment experience.

Grab Holdings Inc. and gaming company Razer Inc. will need to demonstrate how their millions of users can help them generate profits if the two technology firms are to win one of Singapore’s coveted virtual banking licenses.

Adyen NV has clinched a deal to process McDonald’s Corp.’s mobile app payments, beefing up the Dutch company’s portfolio of clients in an expanding sector.

In order to ensure that the public benefits from a faster payments system, we strongly support the Federal Reserve playing a key leadership role, just as central banks have successfully done in other jurisdictions, says TransferWise's Harsh Sinha.

MFS Africa has spent the last decade building an interoperable mobile payments system linking millions of consumers in Africa, and now it’s formed a partnership with Visa to extend global card acceptance to its users.

Worldline and CashSentinel will work on services that will fit requirements for traditional online marketplaces for physical products, franchise systems, self-checkout solutions and smart city apps.

Private equity firm Lovell Minnick Partners has finished what it calls a "significant growth investment" in payments technology and merchant services provider Fortis Payment Systems, LLC.

Traditional acquirers are under severe pressure from the digital payments revolution, challenged to hold onto clients by stitching together legacy systems, existing hardware, mobile, cloud and apps. Those that can harness innovation and find the right startup partners can not only stave off elimination, but drive the next generation of multi-channel shopping and transaction revenue.

Smaller enterprises don't have the resources of larger firms, but open source technology may be helpful, says Pimcore's Shashin Shah.

Payments messaging standards provider Swift has opened its global Know Your Customer registry to all the corporations it connects to following a successful test.

WEX will begin managing the fuel card portfolio of Valero Energy Corp. next year, covering 5,000 U.S. fuel stations, as an extension of the partners’ existing card acceptance agreement.