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for its flagship solution for telephone-based payments, Cardprotect Voice+, RESEARCH
across North America. By further bolstering its already rigorous data security
standards with these new certifications, Semafone believes it now delivers the
strongest levels of security in multichannel payments processes to both its Timely data on economic
customers and partners. landscape

T1 Payments donates to Unite Here Facteus, formerly ARM Insight,
launched the Facteus Insight Report on
T1 Payments, a provider of high-risk merchant processing, is donating to Consumer Spending and Transactions
the Unite Here Education and Support Fund to assist hospitality workers (FIRST). The report, found at http://
whose jobs have been compromised due to the coronavirus pandemic. Unite firstlfacteus.com, provides a criti-
Here represents 300,000 working people in the food service, hotel and other cal lens into consumer behaviors
major industries across the United States and Canada. "As working families and economic trends derived from
continue to face layoffs and uncertainty during the coronavirus (COVID- financial transaction data covering
19) pandemic, the team at T1 Payments hopes to assist hospitality workers' more than 1,600 companies and
through these partners to assist with food, rent, utilities, and wages lost due 430 publicly traded stock tickers,
to reduced hours and tips," TI Payment said. Facteus stated. It is based on mil-
lions of regulatory-compliant con-
U.S. Payments Forum offers safer POS tips sumer transactions sourced directly
from financial institutions, fintechs
In-person payments require interaction with high-contact surfaces, such as and payments companies. This
payment cards, terminals and ATMs, which can expose consumers to bac- insight is increasingly valuable as
teria and other germs, the U.S. Payments Forum noted. And with the global the economic landscape shifts with
COVID-19 situation raising awareness around hygiene in public environ- the evolving conditions created by
ments, the forum published practical tips for retail and petroleum merchants, the COVID-19 global pandemic,
ATM owners and consumers to provide a "cleaner" payment experience. The according to Facteus.
short resource, Tips for a Cleaner Payment Experience, can be downloaded at
www.uspaymentsforum.org/tips-for-cleaner-payments/. Employees working longer dur-
ing pandemic
People are working longer hours in
the wake of the global coronavirus
pandemic and the mass increase in
remote work, according to new data
from NordVPN Teams. Researchers
found not only a massive spike
in business VPN usage, but also
people working on average two
hours longer than usual. The aver-
age workday in the United States
increased by almost 40 percent,
adding an extra three hours -- the
largest jump worldwide. The UK,
France, Canada and Spain are see-
ing a two-hour increase, and busi-
ness VPN sales increased by almost
600 percent due to remote work,
NordVPN found.
Same-store insights
year over year
Credit union service organization
PSCU released its newest Eye of
Payments study, which shares year-
over-year, same-store insights from
March 1 to 21. Researchers found
that while year-over-year spending
during that period was up 9 percent
overall in 2020, the travel sector
decreased 30.3 percent. Transaction

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