Visa Inc. has re-launched Savings Edge, a rewards and discount program for U.S. and Canadian businesses that use Visa Business credit, debit, and reloadable prepaid cards. The re-launch includes revamped offers and a refreshed Web site, Visa says. In related news, Visa announced “Prodigies,” a promotional film aimed at reinforcing the …

Providing consumers more ways to pay and engage with merchants play key roles in driving consumer purchasing decisions, according to Fiserv Inc.’s Spring 2024 Carat Insights Report. One way for merchants to engage on a deeper level with consumers is to offer apps featuring loyalty and rewards programs and that …

Jon Purther, Director, Research, Payments Canada   The Canadian payment landscape continues to transform rapidly, fueled by shifts in consumer and business needs and expectations and technology innovations. Looking ahead, it’s clear that continued innovation will further expand choice within the Canadian payment ecosystem. The payment preferences of Canadians Canadians …

The U.S. Supreme Court early Thursday upheld the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by a 7-2 vote, reversing an October 2022 ruling by a federal appeals court in New Orleans that had held the means by which the bureau is funded violates the U.S. Constitution. The CFPB, created in 2008, receives its …

Worldpay has made tap-to-pay on iPhone technology available to payment facilitators to offer to their merchants. Two payfacs, Fullsteam and Autobooks, have launched the service. Tap to pay lets merchants accept contactless card payments on an ordinary mobile phone with no additional hardware. Cantaloupe Inc., a supplier of payments technology for …

It’s May, and that means it’s time for our annual exercise to seek out and describe the payments players, apart from the big networks, that are rewriting the rules for the digital exchange of value. Capital One Financial Corp.’s bombshell announcement in February that it is offering to acquire Discover …

Its blockbuster bid for Discover could position Capital One to compete not only with the largest credit and debit card issuers, but also with networks like Visa, Mastercard, and AmEx. Capital One Financial Corp.’s bombshell announcement in February that it is offering to acquire Discover Financial Services in all-stock deal …

The planned acquisition of Discover Financial Services by Capital One Financial Corp. will reshape the competitive landscape for consumer deposit accounts in the United States. Digital Transactions reported earlier that Capital One has already announced its intention to move its entire debit portfolio to the Discover Network once the deal …

Processor Elavon, a unit of U.S. Bank, said it will provide a payments platform to BMO. In addition to payment services for credit, debit, and digital payment transactions, Elavon’s services to the bank include customized merchant processing services, omnichannel acceptance, fraud management, and dynamic and multi-currency conversion. Processor Stripe Inc. added support for Apple …

Mastercard Inc. launched its Open Banking for Account Opening program, aimed at U.S. issuers of consumer and small-business debit cards and issuers of consumer prepaid cards. The program aims to verify account ownership, reduce account abandonment, and cut non-sufficient funds returns. Brivo, a provider of technology for building access, has added …