Digital Transactions News staff
March 10, 2021
Acquiring, Competitive Strategies, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Digital Currency, E-Commerce, Fraud & Security, Issuing/Originating, Marketing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Wallets, Point-of-sale, Transaction Processing
- All eight hotels in The Kessler Collection will accept Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies under an agreement with digital-currency processor BitPay Inc. Guests will receive an email, from which they may pay using their crypto wallet.
- Personas Social Inc. launched its Paysonas payment-processing platform, which supports online real-time debit and Bitcoin.
- Menufy, a provider of online-ordering technology for restaurants, has integrated with Square Inc.’s Square for Restaurants point-of-sale system.
- Nok Nok Labs Inc., a provider of authentication technology, said it is working with digital-payments technology provider Netcetera AG to develop technology that will help merchants and payments providers comply with the EMV 3D Secure and PSD2-SCA rules.
- In related news, fintech Paymynt Financial Group has launched the MYNT PayCard, a hardware wallet in the form of a smart card for multiple cryptocurrencies.
- Parking-app provider ParkHub Inc. said it has acquired Bonfire, a campground-management platform. Terms were not announced.
- Veem Inc., a provider of cross-border digital payments, launched Veem Local, which offers no-fee domestic payments in the United States for small businesses.
- Health care payments provider RevSpring Inc. said its Deviceless Payments service now includes point-of-service payments. This enables employees to accept payments without a payment terminal.
- E-commerce fraud prevention provider Forter said its Trusted Authorization service is integrated with Capital One’s Enhanced Decisioning Data service. The combination is meant to improve approval rates and reduce false declines.
- Payments platform Payoneer said it is working with Mastercard Inc. on a suite of products and services, starting with the Payoneer Digital Purchasing Mastercard, for the business-to-business payments market.
