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COMMENTARY: Central Banks Are Pondering the Privacy/Transparency Balance of CBDCs

“We are looking very carefully at the question of whether we should issue a digital dollar,” said Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell in testimony before the Senate banking committee. “We are the world’s reserve currency and we have a responsibility to get this right.” As digital currency moves from the …

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A Mastercard Report Estimates As Much As 30% of the Shift to Digital Payments Is Permanent

That the shift toward digital forms of payment was accelerated by the pandemic has been duly noted over the past year, but how much of that change will stick once the U.S. market and the rest of the world gets beyond Covid? Not all of it by any means, but …

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Zelle Gets Access to TCH’s Real Time Payments Network As an Integration Goes Live

Peer-to-peer transactions have taken off as a way to pay digitally during the pandemic, and now the biggest bank-owned P2P network is getting a big lift through its integration with the country’s most extensive real-time payments network. Early Warning Services LLC announced early Thursday payments on its fast-growing Zelle P2P payments …

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Ransomware Makes a Comeback

The attack on TSYS last December was a sobering reminder of the vulnerability of payments companies to this insidious fraud. But there are steps you can take to protect your network. Criminals are businessmen, too, which is why they are always looking for ways to maximize the return on their …

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How Mastercard’s Optimism Rides on Stimulus, Vaccines, And Debit Spending

Mastercard Inc. saw overall payment volumes inch up in the final quarter of 2020, buoyed by rising debit card volumes and such factors as federal stimulus payments in the U.S. market, the card network’s top executives reported Thursday. Looking ahead, the arrival of vaccines to combat the coronavirus pandemic will …

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As Open Banking Grows More Popular, Banks Work to Streamline Links to Fintech Apps

The firms that make payments apps work behind the scenes are facing a growing problem. As more and more consumers use the apps, more and more banks get involved, casting an ever-widening net of unique requirements on the data networks that connect the apps to users’ bank accounts.  That places …

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Discover Posts Volume Gains for Its Payments Properties But Logs an Overall Revenue Drop

Discover Financial Services reported mixed results Thursday for the fourth quarter of 2020. Despite a 4% decline year-over-year in revenue, which totaled $2.82 billion, Discover’s net income rose 13% to $799 million.  Payment Services volume totaled $70.1 billion, up 6% year-over-year, with all four legs that comprise the division—the Discover …

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Scuppered Talks Between FIS And Global Payments Point to Enduring Importance of Size

Mega-merger fever hasn’t subsided in the payments industry. A combination of FIS Inc. and Global Payments Inc., which have reportedly broken off talks to merge in a deal that could be valued at $70 billion, would represent a continued push for yet more economies of scale in a business whose …

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Why Its Deal for Poynt Means More Than Payment Terminals for Web Giant GoDaddy

GoDaddy Inc.’s agreement to buy Poynt Co., announced late Tuesday, will broaden GoDaddy’s focus into payment services for online merchants and could make the Web-services company a key player in merchant acquiring, observers and company executives say. The deal, in which GoDaddy has agreed to pay $320 million in cash …

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Fast Woos WooCommerce and other Digital Transactions New briefs from 12/14/20

Online checkout provider Fast AF Inc. said its service is now available to 4 million e-commerce stores on the WooCommerce platform. Earlier this year, Fast received $20 million from investors, including Stripe.Spending on entertainment decreased for the week ending Dec. 6, compared to the week ending Dec. 8, 2019, with a 23.9% drop in debit …

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