VF Commander Site Controller
Verifone’s Commander Site Controller and Ruby2 POS solutions have been selected by The Fikes Companies for deployment across its entire chain of CEFCO Convenience Stores.
Green Dot & PayPal
Green Dot announced a new cash processing technology enabling customers to securely and conveniently add cash to their accounts at participating retailers using their mobile device. This service leverages Green Dot’s new mobile and web-enabled barcode generation system and thousands of Green Dot retail locations to provide a new cash-loading option.
Visa DD
Dunkin’ Donuts is integrating Visa Checkout on and within the Dunkin’ Mobile App as a fast and easy way to purchase and reload virtual Dunkin’ Donuts Cards.
Private Label Cards
Some 15% of Synchrony Financial Services’ private label credit card purchase volume was generated via online and mobile channels, demonstrating the consumer shift to mobile purchasing.
Experian FICO
Experian is now now offering its members FICO Scores through its direct-to-consumer products. The FICO Score is front and center as the first in a series of new Experian product enhancements that will be integrated over the next 18 months.
Avalara & GlobalCollect
Avalara and GlobalCollect have formed a strategic partnership to provide payment and indirect tax compliance services to e-commerce companies looking to trade cross-border.
Decoupled Debit
Card-based decoupled debit (ACH) payment solutions provider, National Payment Card Association (NPCA), has changed its name ZipLine. The company also hired a new CEO.
CardinalCommerce Announces Patent
CardinalCommerce, the pioneer and global leader enabling digital commerce, announces that it has been granted a US patent for Alternative Payment Implementation for Electronic Retailers, patent US 8,762,210, and notice of allowance for Method and System for Extending Payment System Architectures and Legacy Order Processing Systems to Mobile Commerce Applications via Text Messaging (Japan). The new patent reinforces that Cardinal is on the leading edge of the payments industry’s move towards omni-channel payments. Consumers are looking for convenient ways to shop and to protect themselves and their payment data when shopping. This technology allows for in-store transactions using payment methods other than plastic cards, like digital wallets and other alternative payment methods. Cardinal’s patent portfolio includes 42 issued patents, 5 notices of allowance, and approximately 100 patent applications pending.
FIRST DATA 2013
Global processing powerhouse First Data had a busy year with nine contract extensions, a new German contract, and expanded nine partnerships. FDC also introduced three new products: Clover Station, VisionPLUS Flex, and Go Daddy Payment Solutions, plus upgraded a number of existing products. FDC also acquired Perka and took 100% ownership of JV. The Company also had three CEO’s during 2013 and received two major awards. Annual revenues also increased slightly in 2013, after two level years.
Voice ID for Secure Digital Tranactions
AGNITiO and fellow FIDO Alliance founding member Nok Nok Labs, a company founded to transform online authentication for modern computing, announce the world’s first demonstration at CES of a FIDO Ready™ Voice iD implementation, showcasing the market-transforming benefits of spoken voice authentication and identification for digital transactions. The Agnitio and Nok Nok Labs FIDO Ready™ demonstration shows how Voice ID and Nok Nok Lab’s Multifactor Authentication Client can be integrated into a mobile application to perform voiceprint-based strong authentication. The solution shown illustrates how FIDO-based authentication can replace the use of passwords to log in or confirm an e-commerce payment. This combination of Nok Nok Labs and AGNITiO FIDO Ready™ product empowers users of online, mobile, and point-of-sale applications to conveniently access sites and services, and perform transactions that are more secure, private, and easy-to-use.
RBS Citizens Enhances Banking App
Corporate treasurers spending more time on the road now have an enhanced new tool for making their offices even more mobile: RBS Citizens Treasury Solutions announced the launch of its second-generation corporate mobile banking application, accessMOBILE. With accessMOBILE, RBS Citizens is one of the first commercial banks in the U.S. to offer a corporate mobile banking app that allows users to deposit a check remotely through a system that is integrated with their other cash management systems, initiate wire transfers from templates, and decision positive pay items and use other new functionality. In addition to iPhone, today’s launch also includes apps for iPad and for Android devices and a new mobile-optimized website delivering full accessMOBILE functionality to web-enabled mobile devices such as Blackberry and Windows Phone.
First Data Partners Mutual of Omaha Bank on mPayment
Mutual of Omaha Bank is expanding its portfolio of solutions for local merchants and small businesses with a mobile solution for processing payments through First Data. The Bank will deploy “Pogo>” mobile payment solution that enables credit, signature debit and cash acceptance anywhere in the U.S. the merchant has wireless coverage. The “Pogo>” solution allows merchants to convert their Web-enabled smartphones or tablets into POS devices through the use of a mobile application and a secure mobile card reader. The solution leverages First Data’s proven technology, security, infrastructure and broad distribution channel and will complement Mutual of Omaha Bank’s existing portfolio of merchant and small business banking solutions.