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Credit Cards

Another Joins Isaacman Space Venture and other Digital Transactions News from 2/22/21

The planned Inspiration4 project, the first space flight with an all-civilian crew, added its second crew member, Hayley Arceneaux, a physician assistant in Memphis. Crew commander is Shift4 Payments Inc. chief executive Jared Isaacman.Credit union service organization PSCU said spending made with debit cards increased 12.5% for the week ending Feb. 14 compared to …

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Having Exhausted Covid Scams, Criminals Are Returning to E-Commerce Fraud And Malware Attacks

Now that criminals have milked the bulk of their opportunities related to pandemic relief efforts, they are turning their attention back to their old standby, payments-related fraud. Not surprisingly, their target of choice is e-commerce, which has rocketed due to restrictions on the number of consumers allowed in physical stores and …

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Discover Taps Into the Fast-Growing POS Lending Trend Through BNPL Specialist Sezzle

The economic uncertainty brought on last year by the coronavirus pandemic has given a lift to the point-of-sale installment lending trend, with payments giants like PayPal Holdings Inc. jumping into a market that has been pioneered by fast-growing buy now, pay later startups like Affirm Inc., Afterpay Ltd., Klarna AB, …

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Wirex Preps for U.S. Debut and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/18/21

To support a cryptocurrency-payments launch set for April in the United States, London-based digital-payments platform Wirex has linked to crypto-trading firm Zero Hash. Harold Montgomery, former chief executive of independent sales organization Calpian Inc., is managing director for Wirex USA Inc.Parking-app provider ParkMobile LLC said its latest municipal agreement allows its app to be …

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Debit Card Use on Amazon Soars 70%, PSCU Report Finds

With little indication e-commerce spending is slowing, consumers are favoring using their debit cards on Amazon.com Inc., with a 70% increase in debit card transactions at the giant e-commerce retailer for the week ending Feb. 7, compared to the week ending Feb. 9, 2020. That’s according to the latest Tracking …

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PayPal Opens Its New Venmo Credit Card to Users Generally

PayPal Holdings Inc. on Tuesday threw the door wide open for applications for its new Venmo credit card. The Visa-branded card, which the company has had in the works since 2019 and began issuing to select users in October, includes a Quick Response code, a rewards structure, and, through the Venmo …

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Crypto on a Credit Card? BitPay Says Its Simplex Deal Makes it Easier And Cheaper

As part of its ongoing efforts to make purchasing cryptocurrency easier and attract new users, Atlanta-based blockchain-payment processor BitPay Inc. is teaming with Simplex Payment Services, a Vilnius, Lithuania-based financial institution, to enable European consumers to purchase cryptocurrency using a credit or debit card and incur no cardholder fees for 45 …

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Nonbanks Find Consumer Favor and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/10/21

As consumers increasingly turn to fintechs rather than banks, money decisions and payments share are shifting away from traditional financial institutions, according to a study from data-analytics firm Fair Isaac Corp. (FICO). Some 34% of consumers have at least one account with, or conduct financial activity with, a nonbank provider, while …

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Fiserv Looks to Units Like Clover And Carat to Help Bend Its Growth Trajectory Upward

Like many of its rivals, Fiserv Inc. is looking for ways to prosper as hope begins to rise for a recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic that has ravaged much of the world. Tuesday afternoon, the Brookfield, Wis.-based payments provider revealed a promising report card for its fourth-quarter performance, with high-flying …

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Gift Card Fraud And Credential Stuffing Led the Charge in Fourth-Quarter Fraud Attacks

Gift card fraud and credential stuffing, a technique in which criminals use stolen account credentials to gain access to legitimate user accounts, ran rampant during the fourth quarter of 2020, according to research by Arkose Labs, a San Francisco-based provider of fraud-prevention technology. Criminals launched 3.6 million attacks on gift …

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