Tuesday , January 14, 2025

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Bancorp’s Profit up 2.8% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/25/24

The Bancorp Inc., which provides payments and other financial services to fintechs, reported September quarter-net income of $51.5 million, up slightly from $50.1 million a year ago. Gross dollar volume on prepaid and credit cards grew 15% to $37.9 billion. Payment fees from prepaid and debit cards, automated clearing house …

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How the CFPB’s Data Privacy Rule for Open Banking Could Impact Merchants’ Swipe Fees

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 …

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Banks Take Aim at the CFPB’s Data Privacy Rule for Open Banking

No sooner had the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released its personal financial data rights rule Tuesday than the rule was legally challenged by the banking industry. The lawsuit, filed late Tuesday by the Bank Policy Institute and the Kentucky Bankers Association, alleges the CFPB has overstepped its bounds by issuing …

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The CFPB Releases Its Data Privacy Rule for Open Banking

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has finalized its personal financial data-rights rule aimed at governing the sharing of consumer data through open banking. The new rule, released early Tuesday, will require financial institutions, credit card issuers, and other financial providers to share data at a consumer’s direction with companies offering …

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Fiserv Posts Growth As New Tech And New Initiatives Start to Kick in

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, …

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Clearent’s New PayFac Service and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/22/24

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 …

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How Deals And Tech Are Helping AmEx Bulk up in the Hot Restaurant Market

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, …

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Better Armed Cyberthieves Means Fewer Breaches, More Effective Attacks

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 …

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CPI’s All-in-One Card Technology Debuts

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 …

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Oracle Health Payments Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/16/24

Oracle Corp. launched Oracle Health Payments, which the company says combines gateway routing, processing, and acquiring in a single contract for health-care providers. Capabilities include tap-to-pay with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or Samsung Pay. Visa Inc. said it is collaborating with Analytic Partners to enable a data-analytics service for merchants. The fintech Pivot …

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