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Green Dot Corp.’s new chief executive, Dan Henry, made no bones earlier this month about the strategic importance of the company’s bank, and now a new banking-as-a-service program from the Pasadena, Calif.-based company shows how that asset can be deployed to win the loyalty of one of America’s largest immigrant …
May, 2020
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29 May
Vesta Notes $125 Million Investment and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/29/20
Vesta, a vendor of fraud-fighting technology, said it has received a $125 million growth-capital investment from Goldfinch Partners.Fiserv Inc. said True Sky Credit Union will move to its platform for core account processing, including access to the Zelle peer-to-peer payments network.Mastercard Inc. launched Recovery Insights, a set of data and tools aimed at …
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28 May
Merchants Turning to Small Business Credit Cards to Improve Cash Flow
ISOs tap into card issuing revenue One of the biggest challenges for small businesses is the availability of credit according to a recent study* by the Federal Reserve. Many merchants address this by taking out short-term business loans or using personal credit cards to bridge the gap. While credit cards …
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28 May
The U.S. EMV Chip Card Count Surpasses 1 Billion
Four years after the EMV chip card standard became the law of the U.S. payments land, the number of credit and debit cards with an EMV chip now exceeds 1 billion, and 63% of U.S. card-present transactions in 2019 involved an EMV card being read by an EMV-capable terminal, up …
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28 May
A New Study Shows How Acquirers Can Help Merchants Recover From Covid-19’s Heavy Toll
Fully 25% of U.S. merchants that accept payment cards experienced a drop of 56% or more in card volume in April compared with February, finds a new study from The Strawhecker Group. After analyzing billions of transactions from more than 1 million card-accepting merchants across the United States, the Omaha, …
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28 May
Visa Names Chief Strategy Officer and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/28/20
Visa Inc. appointed Chris Newkirk as chief strategy officer, a newly created position in which he will lead strategic planning for Visa overall and work with Visa’s regional teams. Newkirk, who will report to chairman and CEO Al Kelly, comes to Visa from Capital One Financial Corp., where he held a …
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27 May
2020 Sanctions Compliance Report
Today’s technology empowers organizations to engage a global pool of customers. But this digital reach is often accompanied by increased scrutiny to ensure your organization remains compliant with the latest sanctions regulations. As regulators prioritize sanctions compliance, those who negate this responsibility are unnecessarily setting themselves on a potential collision …
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27 May
As Restrictions Lift, Parking Apps Look to Serve Cooped-up Consumers Who Want Touch-Free Payments
Pundits have argued for weeks that the Covid-19 pandemic is shifting consumer payment habits away from anything that requires touching publicly available devices, and now that trend is showing up in that most mundane of activities, parking a car. To be sure, parking transactions even via a mobile app have …
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27 May
FIDO Alliance Launches Effort To Make Consumers Aware of Its Authentication Technology
After years of working with Internet firms and payments and tech companies to develop its authentication standards, the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance on Wednesday unveiled a Web site to familiarize consumers with its work and a symbol that indicates a Web site or device is using its technology. The …
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27 May
More Spend on Streaming Services and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/27/20
In its first “State of Spend” report, loyalty platform provider Cardlytics Inc., which develops offers for customers of some of the nation’s largest banks based on transaction data, says spending on streaming services rose 24% year-over-year in the March 12-April 29 period.Digital-payments and banking-services provider i2c Inc. said it is supporting Crypto.com as …
