Payments

The pilot leverages Keyno’s CVVkey technology that uses a dynamic card verification value 2 (CVV2) code to provide a higher level of security against fraud for online and mobile payments.

Truist Financial Corp. has hired Sal Karakaplan to head its newly formed Enterprise Payments Group, which will be responsible for driving and executing a coordinated strategy across Truist’s various payments businesses.

Mastercard says it has been notified the Department of Justice has approved its planned acquisition of data aggregator Finicity, putting the card brand on track to close the deal before the end of the year.

On Jun. 30, 2020. Dollars in thousands.

It will take years to fully complete the project, but Mastercard has announced the availability of real-time account-to-account corporate payments for U.S. firms through its Mastercard Track Business Payment Service (BPS), with plans to add cross-border payments next year.

The pandemic has altered a variety of consumer behaviors, and that could make a difference in what sort of interchange and interest revenue financial institutions see in their credit and debit portfolios as they close out 2020.

As futuristic as real-time digital payments can be, the concept is almost like a blast from the past for FIS’ Raja Gopalakrishnan.

Replacing the traditional POS model will be a cloud-focused and software-defined model that gives shoppers their choice of checkout and reimagines the store experience, says Zynstra's Brian Buggy.

Our collective work on the real-time payments front is not for naught. That is because the consumer and business needs are evolving, says Bottomline's Jessica Cheney.

Wells Fargo is exploring selling a unit offering store-branded credit cards as the bank chooses businesses to keep or break off in a broad strategic overhaul, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Concerns over cash and checks are permanent and will make contactless mainstream, says Global Market Insights' Vinisha Joshi.

The response exceeded expectations, with more than 1,600 Citi customers requesting a name-change on their cards within the first few weeks of the program.

Brazil aims to move beyond the era of cash payments on Monday, when the Banco Central do Brasil launches the Brazil Instant Payment System.

Big financial institutions are worried that online wagers made with credit cards pose a heavy risk of money laundering. The possibility of tougher rules under the incoming Biden administration has only compounded their concerns.

Unlike a traditional supply chain, where value and risk travels up and down a set of organizations in a linear fashion, the extended enterprise is a complex network of relationships, says PXP Financial's Koen Vanpraet.

EMVCo, the major card brand-supported venture to establish EMV guidelines and specifications, has begun testing a program to determine if consumer mobile devices can securely accept contactless payments — a move that not only hastens the adoption of contactless payments, but renews criticism over which networks control technology and routing decisions.

For the 2020 holidays, retailers that enable payment flexibility by catering to global shoppers will prepare themselves for lasting success, ensuring they are on the right side of this industry transformation.

Even given the huge jump in digital transactions from e-commerce, card brands are holding out for COVID-19 vaccines as a path out of the payment declines that have accompanied 2020’s health and economic crises.

Dean, who joined Capital One in 2014, succeeds Kleber Santos, who left the bank earlier this month to lead diversity initiatives at Wells Fargo.

In a battle between two giants of ride-hailing and payments, Grab beat out Go-Jek to lead a $100 million fundraising round for the Indonesian government-backed e-wallet provider LinkAja.