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The Federal Reserve released its latest triennial payments study Thursday morning, and it reports that the number of U.S. non-cash payments totaled 144 billion in 2015, up 5.3% annually from 2012. Debit and credit cards led in growth, while the automated clearing house network “grew modestly,” the Fed said. The …

Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. have been tokenizing their payment cards since 2014, but have not been able to access tokens for cards branded by the other network. That will change soon as the result of an agreement announced separately Thursday by Visa and MasterCard. Under the agreement, Visa will be able …

It’s a double whammy for VeriFone Systems Inc. On Monday, the San Jose, Calif.-based terminal maker said its sales for next year will be “tempered” by a decision by the major payment networks to postpone their deadline for fuel-pump EMV from Oct. 1, 2017 to Oct. 1, 2020. “We were disappointed and …

Nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults now carry a general-purpose credit card, and credit cards are gaining popularity with young adults, according to new consumer survey findings from Mercator Advisory Group Inc. The Maynard, Mass.-based research and consulting firm reported this week that 63% of U.S. consumers have a major-brand credit …

• Rite Aid Corp. announced that American Express Co. cardholders now can use their Membership Rewards points for purchases at its drugstores. They also can use their Plenti points earned using the AmEx-backed coalition rewards service • Growth in consumer revolving credit cooled off to a 5.2% seasonally adjusted annualized rate in …

By Kevin Woodward@DTPaymentNews Card controls, a way to empower consumers to control when and where their credit and debit cards are used, are evolving. Viewed as one way to contend with the rampant data breaches fueling payment fraud, card controls are moving beyond the simple on-off switching capability of the …

By John Stewart @DTPaymentNews Debit card transactions with PIN authentication have historically been seen as the most secure form of payment available, but lately some experts have had cause to wonder. In fact, while credit card fraud losses are declining, losses on PIN debit transactions for payment and at ATMs …

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A year into the migration to EMV chip cards, most consumers—83%—still are unsure of whether to dip or swipe their chip-enabled credit or debit cards at the point of sale. That statistic comes from a survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers commissioned by payments specialist Cayan LLC and conducted by Research …

While the payments business is caught up these days in working out strategies for mobile apps and social media, it turns out these aren’t the cutting-edge technologies they once were. Instead, fields like virtual reality, machine learning, and natural language are winning the spotlight. That’s according to a study that …