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Scottish Students’ Faces Scanned for Contactless Lunch Payments

Scottish Students’ Faces Scanned for Contactless Lunch Payments
Scottish Students’ Faces Scanned for Contactless Lunch Payments
October 18, 2021  |  Cross-border Payments

Nine schools in the North Ayrshire area of Scotland started using facial recognition on Monday (Oct. 18) to verify the identities of children for lunch...

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Lightspeed Intros Integrated Hospitality, POS Platform
Lightspeed Intros Integrated Hospitality, POS Platform
October 14, 2021  |  ResTech

Merchant point-of-sale (POS) commerce platform Lightspeed is rolling out a new restaurant tool with analytics, payments and inventory management for a one-stop, unified solution, the...

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Chipotle Mexican Grill on the Increased Access to Debit and Digital Payments Opportunity
Chipotle Mexican Grill on the Increased Access to Debit and Digital Payments Opportunity
October 11, 2021  |  Next-Gen Debit

For restaurants, innovating the debit payment experience is not just an opportunity, it’s becoming a necessity. In the Next-Gen Debit Payments Tracker, Nicole West, vice...

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Chipotle on the Debit and Digital Ordering Opportunity
Chipotle on the Debit and Digital Ordering Opportunity
October 08, 2021  |  Next-Gen Debit

The nation’s love affair with credit cards appears to be fading as the share of debit card use rises. One study found that debit-backed transactions...

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Transact Debuts Contactless Tech for Colleges: Delivery Robots, Food Lockers
Transact Debuts Contactless Tech for Colleges: Delivery Robots, Food Lockers
October 07, 2021  |  Merchant Innovation

Transact has rolled out new software integrations for a sweeping slate of improvements to college campuses, a press release says. Transact works in credential and...

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United Airlines Debuts PayPal QR Codes for In-Flight Payments
United Airlines Debuts PayPal QR Codes for In-Flight Payments
October 06, 2021  |  Travel Payments

United Airlines is partnering with PayPal to make in-flight purchases touch-free even if no Wi-Fi is available, World Airline News reported Wednesday (Oct. 6). Starting in...

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Saudi Central Bank Says Country’s Contactless Payments Adoption Is 94%
Saudi Central Bank Says Country’s Contactless Payments Adoption Is 94%
October 03, 2021  |  Cross-border Payments

The Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) has seen the biggest rate of adoption of contactless payments in the Middle East and North Africa and ahead of...

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Account-to-Account Transactions Leapt 60% in 2020
Account-to-Account Transactions Leapt 60% in 2020
October 01, 2021  |  Payment Methods

When consumers were forced to migrate from physical to digital commerce in the first months of the pandemic, account-to-account (A2A) money transfers soared. In fact,...

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