Paragon enhances web-based testing platform for FIs

September 10, 2019

North Carolina-based Paragon Application Systems, a provider of payment-testing solutions for the financial services industry, has enhanced its Web FASTest…

AIB, First Data to acquire Irish payment provider Payzone for $112M

April 23, 2019

Carlyle Cardinal Ireland, a private equity fund established by The Carlyle Group, has announced that Payzone, one of Ireland's largest providers of payment…

Cloud-based core banking startup Finxact raises $30M in funding round

January 25, 2019

First Data to adopt latest nexo standards specifications

November 28, 2018

Nexo standards, an association dedicated to delivering fast, interoperable and borderless card payment acceptance, has announced that First Data will integrate…

First Data dashboard provides real-time holiday spending insights

November 27, 2018

First Data, a provider of commerce enabling technology, has launched SpendTrend Holiday Insights, a real-time spending dashboard.

RBS taps First Data for merchant services

October 30, 2018

First Data Corp. has entered an agreement with Royal Bank of Scotland Group to provide merchant services, to the lender's business customers in the U.K.

FIs get top rating from US consumers for personal info security

October 22, 2018

First Data has released the results of its 2018 Consumer Cybersecurity Study exploring the perceptions about consumers regarding the security of their…

Industry coalition aims to boost payment system security

June 8, 2018

Retail and payments industry stakeholders have formed a new association, the Secure Payments Partnership, to promote security across the payments system.

First Data to sell portions of card processing, ATM management business in Europe

May 30, 2018

SIA, a European provider of payment infrastructure and services, has signed an agreement with First Data Corp. to acquire First Data's card processing…

France's Worldline to acquire First Data Baltic operations

July 28, 2017

Worldline, a Paris-based provider of payments and transactional services, has inked an agreement to purchase First Data operations in Lithuania, Latvia and…

A big transaction to process: First Data to acquire CardConnect

May 31, 2017

Transaction processing and payment solutions providers First Data and CardConnect Corp., have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which First Data…

First Data, Alipay strike mobile payments deal

May 9, 2017

Hot on the heels of last week's announcement by ACI Worldwide, First Data has announced that it, too, is expanding its relationship with Alipay. According to a…

First Data to add PIN debit e-commerce with Acculynk acquisition

March 16, 2017

Payment technology solutions provider First Data has entered into an agreement to acquire Acculynk, a provider of e-commerce solutions for debit card…

First Data Integrated Solutions Group marks 'important new chapter of openness'

January 17, 2017

First Data is launching a First Data Integrated Solutions Group, a new business segment focused on expanded software developer tools for integration with First…

Online holiday spend continues to rise, First Data finds

January 12, 2016

E-commerce eked out a 2 percent gain year over year, rising from 18 percent to 20 percent; overall, sales grew 3.3 during the holiday season, the company says.

NCR, First Data partner in strategic agreement

November 16, 2015

First Data will offer cybersecurity and payment processing solutions to some NCR customers; NCR will offer ATM hardware and services to First Data FI clients.

98 percent of US cards forecast to be EMV-enabled by end of 2017

September 30, 2015

By the end of 2015, 60 percent of cards will have chips, compared with 30 percent in June, the Payments Security Task Force says.

Nominations sought for awards honoring innovators in ATM and mobile payment tech

July 10, 2015

Awards for Most Innovative Financial Institution, Most Innovative ATM Technology, and Most Innovative Mobile Technology will be presented at the ATM & Mobile…

PSCU to start members' EMV debit activations with First Data in June

May 27, 2015

The company said it is the first CUSO certified to issue its members EMV-enabled debit cards for the First Data Debit Solutions platform.

Chip card migration to be nearly complete by 2017, taskforce says

May 4, 2015

A new survey by the Payments Security Taskforce indicates accelerating momentum in the shift toward EMV technology.