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While the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is being sued over its data-privacy rule, merchants remain optimistic the regulation will help them reduce the impact of swipe fees by making account-to-account payments widely available at the point of sale. The key is open banking, which paves the way to developing payment …

Fiserv Inc., one of the nation’s biggest processors, put up some notable growth numbers in the September quarter despite its size. How long it can maintain that momentum may depend on its ability to release new services and build on recent initiatives such as its SMB Bundle and Cashflow Central, …

Clearent by Xplor launched its payfac as a service product to help software companies more easily embed payment acceptance into their applications. Fiserv Inc. announced it has agreed to build financial services into the digital platform operated by DoorDash, the online delivery service. Payments provider Shift4 Payments Inc. announced it will acquire transactions for …

American Express Co.’s top brass early Friday stressed the company’s technology build-up in the red-hot restaurant category while stressing a need to spur cardholder spending overall as the card company presented its third-quarter 2024 results. Revenue in the quarter hit $16.6 billion, up 8% from the September quarter last year, …

Despite the number of data breaches during the third-quarter of 2024 declining 8% from the previous quarter, criminals are better armed than ever for carrying out these nefarious attacks, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. One factor making it easier for criminals to initiate a data breach is the emergence …

Visa Inc. has restructured its money movement services under the Visa Direct portfolio, which now includes Visa B2B Connect, Currencycloud, Yellowpepper, and Visa Direct. Cash App, the peer-to-peer payment service and wallet from Square, said Lyft ride-share users can now pay for fares with Cash App. Truist Financial Corp. launched its Electronic …

More than a year after proposing a click-to-cancel rule for subscriptions and recurring transactions, the Federal Trade Commission released a final version of the measure, officially called the Negative Option Rule. Announced Wednesday, the rule’s five primary elements call for important subscription information to be truthful, clear, and easy to …

With several factors at play, CPI Card Group Inc. is launching fresh card technology that reduces the amount of first-use plastics while providing issuers new formats and shapes for their credit, debit, and prepaid cards. Announced Wednesday, the All-in-One technology using the Secora Pay Green technology has been developed in …

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit seeking to overturn the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act filed a motion late Friday requesting the court deny a request from several merchant organizations to join the Illinois Attorney General as defendants in the suit. At the heart of the plaintiffs’ argument is that the Illinois …

Payments revenue, which grew at a healthy clip through last year, is going to see a drastically slower growth rate over the next five years, argues the Boston Consulting Group in a report issued early Monday. Worldwide payments revenues, which totaled $1.8 trillion last year, will increase at a compound …