Global Payments News

• Diebold and NCR pursue a future beyond payment hardware
  The ATM and payment terminal makers are facing more competition from software providers. Both have taken steps to head off this threat.
• Gen Z will lead the shift to open banking
  Younger consumers have an appetite for fintech services and digital relationships, says Cloudentity CEO Jasen Meece.
• Mastercard to raise card-not-present interchange for U.K. cards used at EU shops
  In a post-Brexit move, Mastercard is raising interchange rates for card-not-present transactions on U.K.-issued cards when spent with European merchants.
• AI's become the new brain behind e-commerce innovation
  Machine learning and innovations such as voice assistants can give the newly mature e-commerce industry an extra push, says Qualpay's Penny Townsend.
• Cardtronics agrees to $1.7 billion sale to NCR
  Cardtronics will accept a $1.7 billion sale to NCR after the ATM producer outbid Apollo Global Management and Hudson Executive Capital.