First Data and Bank of America end paytech partnership
Fiserv’s First Data will provide services to its current client merchants until June 2023.
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Payments Industry Steps up to Help Harvey Victims
Several payments companies have announced efforts to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Louisiana, including monetary donations, interchange fee waivers and m-POS equipment.
First Data Buys Payment Processor CardConnect for $750 Million
First Data will buy U.S.-based payments processor CardConnect for about $750 million in cash, including the repayment of debt.
Alipay Expands in North America with First Data Deal
The Alipay online payment platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group is moving further into North America through an agreement with payments technology provider First Data. Alipay is considered the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform, with more than 450 million global active users.
N.Y. DOL Fires Back at Industrial Board of Appeals, Global Cash Card
The New York Department of Labor has fired the latest salvo in the battle over the use of payroll cards in the state. The agency has filed an appeal that could jeopardize the outcome of a petition granted to Global Cash Card to revoke the N.Y. DOL payroll card regulations, which were due to go into effect March 7, 2017. At stake are rules that are considered so burdensome by the prepaid industry that—if restored—could force some payroll card providers out of New York.
FLEETCOR Grows Cross-Border Business with $675 Million Cambridge Buy
Less than two months after announcing a major joint venture in the gifting vertical, FLEETCOR Technologies has made a big move into the red-hot cross-border payments sector, reaching an agreement to acquire international B2B payments specialist Cambridge Global Payments for $675 million.
Executive Profile: Walt Granville, Digiliti Money
From his current role as senior vice president of mobile innovations at Digiliti Money (formerly Cachet Financial Solutions), Walt Granville has the perfect vantage point to see the transformative power of mobile for prepaid programs. Find out more from the former pro runner, including which apps are on his must-list, where he sees prepaid in five years and the trend he’s watching most in 2017.
As Gifting Evolves, First Data, FLEETCOR Combine Gift Card Operations
With gifting loads hitting nearly $300 billion annually in the U.S. according to Mercator Advisory Group, First Data and FLEETCOR Technologies are banding together in a new joint venture that will consolidate each company’s gift card operations into a new, single entity, in a bid to give clients a “broader international reach and a more robust end-to-end offering.”
