Tyro Payments and TouchBistro have teamed up to provide users of TouchBistro point of sale (POS) systems in Australia with a fully integrated, easily set up and highly secure electronic card payment system to process patron payments for food and drink orders.
A global wearable financial app hackathon produced three top winning apps. Atlanta-based Global Payments and CaixaBank in Barcelona held there FinAppsParty this month.
San Francisco-based Affirm says its installment financing service for online shoppers and merchants is going gangbusters. Affirm lets shoppers pay for purchases across multiple months with transparent, fairly-priced fees built into every payment, and boosts conversion and basket size for eTailers at less than the cost of credit cards.
CardConnect payment processing announced the launch of the CardConnect Merchant Center, an online account for each of its 50,000 merchant customers to view and manage their transactions in real time. The CardConnect Merchant Center – available at no additional charge to all businesses that use CardConnect to process payments – mirrors what consumers receive through their online banking accounts. It offers reporting and reconciliation, transaction management, account alerts, scalability and flexibility.
Affirm announced the commercial release of its new Split Pay service that lets online merchants offer the power of installment payments to their consumers at the point of sale. Using Split Pay, online shoppers can make a purchase and pay across multiple months with simple, clear financing fees a fraction of credit card interest rates. With Affirm there is zero risk for the eTailer. Affirm pays its merchants in full at the time of settlement and their customers enjoy payments stretched out in monthly installments. Split Pay is consumer-friendly by providing clear terms and a fixed set of payments.
American Express, VEVO and YouTube announced Kings of Leon and Fred Armisen have been selected as the next pair in its popular live stream music series “American Express Unstaged.” Kings of Leon’s exclusive performance will be live streamed from Shepherd’s Bush in London at 4:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM PT on Friday, August 9 at www.amexunstaged.com directed by Fred Armisen. Fans can watch the live event on YouTube’s iOS and Android apps as well as its mobile website, VEVO’s free apps for iPhone®, iPad® and Xbox 360, and on the American Express Channel, available through the American Express app on LG connected TVs. The global event precedes the highly anticipated September 24th release of MECHANICAL BULL (RCA Records). The “American Express Unstaged” music series is a cutting-edge live event and interactive digital platform, bringing together popular musical artists with renowned film directors. Armisen, best known for his work on “Saturday Night Live” and as the co-creator and star of IFC’s “Portlandia,” will make his return to “American Express Unstaged,” this time as the director.
Payment Alliance International (PAI) electronic payment processing announced its ongoing commitment to merchants in the shooting sports industry after a number of financial institutions, merchant services providers and lenders have recently withdrawn from this segment. PAI embraces the shooting sports industry and is continually enhancing its PAI Shooting Sports Payments Package with new payment acceptance alternatives. The PAI Shooting Sports Payments Package has been endorsed by major industry associations, including the NRA Business Alliance and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). PAI’s Shooting Sports Payments Package is an ongoing collaborative effort between PAI and shooting sports industry leaders, giving shooting sports merchants a secure and cost-effective way to conduct mobile payment processing using their own smartphones and tablets.
GlobalCollect online payment services in eCommerce, and XS Software, a leading platform for browser-based games announced the extension of their partnership and the first results of the launch of Maestro International; MasterCard’s secure debit card solution for eCommerce. XS Software has started processing Maestro in Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Spain. Compared to the months of April and May, statistics showed the integration of Maestro has caused a significant rise of 9,13% in this month’s sales revenues of XS Software and an increase of the number of transactions with both Credit and Debit Card payments of 10,07% in these Euro markets. With the integration of Maestro, GlobalCollect ensured for XS Software access to a market of 60% of debit card holders who are ready to use their Maestro card for online payments.
CloudLock, the cloud data loss prevention (DLP) company, announced its industry-first pattern matching engine that identifies, classifies, and secures sensitive information, including Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Payment Card Industry (PCI) data and custom regular expressions, allowing Google Apps customers to address auditing and compliance requirements in Google Drive (Docs). PII is data that can be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single individual. CloudLock’s PII and PCI Compliance Scan allows customers to identify files containing Social Security Numbers, Credit Card information as well as any custom patterns/regex that they can define such as Product SKUs, postal codes or any other pattern.
GlobalCollect premier payment service provider of local e-payments has extended its partnership with games research firm, Newzoo, to provide fresh data on key emerging and western markets for 2012. GlobalCollect will again sponsor Newzoo’s suite of consumer research in 2012, publish unique joint insights and organize webinars centered around the hottest topics in the games industry. The partnership combines the payment processing and monetization expertise that GlobalCollect has developed servicing the worlds’ largest game companies with the consumer insights provided by Newzoo. One of the key objectives of the co-operation is to increase transparency of emerging markets. This is illustrated by the joint effort to profile game preferences and spending behavior of 30 million active internet users in Turkey and 18 million in Poland.
GlobalCollect premier payment service provider for e-payments appointed Pier Iberti as Global Market Director Retail, and Nathan Salisbury as Global Market Director Gaming. Their appointment is the next step in GlobalCollect’s global vertical market strategy to focus sales, product innovation and marketing on key growth industries for eCommerce. Both Global Market Directors are business leaders and have an excellent track record in thought leadership in their respective verticals, which will ensure the increase of the company’s growth in the Gaming and Retail markets. Iberti has worked for the last two years in a Business Development Retail role for the North American region confirming her broad experience acquired previously working with retailers. Nathan Salisbury, as part of the European Business Development team will be heading the Gaming vertical. Prior to GlobalCollect Mr. Salisbury worked for more than 10 years in a variety of sales leadership roles for media and technology companies.
NCR Corporation partnered Krispy Kreme, deploying its “Aloha” restaurant technology solution in all of its U.S.-based corporate-owned sites. Now available to all Krispy Kreme franchisees, “Aloha” allows users to manage mission critical daily operations at the local level while leveraging the power and freedom of having transactional data, systems configuration and management hosted in the cloud. With an integrated POS and kitchen production systems, the NCR Aloha solution will help Krispy Kreme maximize guest satisfaction, improve food quality and ensure food is queued, prepared and delivered to consumers. It will also allow Krispy Kreme users to securely and remotely change menu items, run reports and support multiple locations from anywhere.