Tuesday , March 18, 2025

Debit Cards

XMoney Signs Visa as Partner and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/28/25

X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, appears to have signed a deal with Visa Inc. for the card brand to be a partner in XMoney Account, the platform’s possible payments service, reported CNBC.com. Fuel discount platform GasBuddy launched its Pay with GasBuddy+ card issued by Fifth Third Bank N.A. bearing the …

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C-Store Chain RaceTrac Deploys 10-4 by WEX for Cardless Fuel Payments

RaceTrac Inc., an Atlanta-based convenience store chain with more than 800 locations, is debuting cardless payments for truck drivers via the 10-4 by WEX app. The free app enables independent owner-operators to pay for diesel fuel without a physical card at the pump. Users upload their credit or debit card …

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Chase on Track to Retain Acquiring Crown With Annual Volume Well North of $2 Trillion

New data from JPMorgan Chase & Co. signals the leading U.S. banking company is on track to retain its title as the nation’s largest merchant acquirer, with volume well in excess of $2.5 trillion flowing through its pipes. A note from a J.P. Morgan Payments spokesperson to Digital Transactions News …

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Debit Cards, Real-Time Payments Favored by Online Sports Bettors, Paysafe Finds; Nuvei’s New U.K. Gaming Platform

Debit cards remain the preferred payment for online sports bettors, with 42% of bettors saying they use debit cards to fund their accounts, according to Paysafe Ltd.’s annual All the Ways Players Pay report. It is the third consecutive year debit ranked as bettor’s preferred payment method. Digital wallets were …

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The Naughty List Grows: 13% Committed First-Party Fraud During the Holiday Shopping Season

Some consumers better hope Santa Claus doesn’t read the latest fraud report from Socure, a fraud-prevention and authentication provider. It found 13% of U.S. consumers committed first-party fraud during the 2024 holiday-shopping season. Often called friendly fraud, first-party fraud occurs when a consumer exploits return and refund policies for financial …

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Lightspeed Scanner Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/14/25

Lightspeed Commerc Inc. launched Lightspeed Scanner, a service that lets sales associates process customers’ card transactions on an iPhone. MagTek said it is working with developer Vault to support Magtek’s DynaFlex II Go technology for mobile point-of-sale applications. Identity-verification specialist AU10TIX said its technology prevented an estimated $7.5 billion in fraud last year worldwide. …

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Checkbook Acquires sureti and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/10/25

Payments platform Checkbook has acquired sureti, a provider of technology for the distribution of insurance payouts. Terms were not announced. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said it is asking for comment on implementing existing financial privacy law and how to address what it labeled intrusive data collection and personalized pricing. It also wants comment …

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Affinity FCU Partners With a Payments Fintech to Boost Financial Literacy

Affinity Federal Credit Union is working with fintech Greenlight Financial Technology Inc. to launch a financial-literacy program. The program will provide Affinity members and their families free access to Greenlight’s mobile app and debit card for kids and teens. The app allows parents to manage their child’s spending, send money, …

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PayPal Faces Discrimination Lawsuit and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/6/25

An Asian-American businesswoman named Nisha Desai has sued PayPal Holdings Inc. on grounds of racial discrimination, alleging the company restricted some of a $535-million investment commitment to Black and Hispanic candidates. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, asks for unspecified damages and an order …

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WhatsAppPay Rolls Out in India and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/31/24

Meta Platform’s WhatsApp payments service has been permitted by the National Payments Corp. of India, a regulatory body, to roll out WhatsApp Pay to its entire user base of 500 million in that country. Meta formerly was known as Facebook. GasBuddy, which offers a payments card featuring discounts on gasoline, forecasts the …

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