Debit Cards

Observers of the payments industry who wonder how the Federal Reserve’s proposed rate reductions for debit card acceptance might be received by the nation’s biggest processors heard an unequivocal answer early Tuesday from at least one of them.  “Any time the cost of acceptance goes down, it’s a positive for …

The Western Union Co. announced customers will be able to send money via the company’s digital service directly to Visa and Mastercard cards through an integration with Paysend, a card-to-card payments platform. Lightspeed Commerce Inc. launched several new features including artificial intelligence-assisted menu creation, better insights into popular items, staff performance tools, …

The Federal Reserve Board’s proposal Wednesday to make a 31% reduction in the main component of its debit card interchange ceiling for large issuers touches on a longstanding sore point among merchants and has already sparked a spirited debate in the payments industry. Merchant groups, long riled by debit card …

Mastercard Inc. posted strong third-quarter results of $6.5 billion in revenue, up 12% from $5.8 billion in the 2022 third quarter. The card giant’s net income of $3.2 billion increased 28% from $2.5 billion in the year-ago quarter. Mastercard cited cross-border payment volume growth of 21% in the quarter as one …

With potential regulation of credit card interchange looming and with the unwavering demand from merchants for lower card-acceptance costs, the possibility that interchange as it’s known today may dramatically change can’t be entirely dismissed—but don’t count on its demise. That was the conclusion at the Money 20/20 trade show this …

The Federal Reserve Board is set to revisit its longstanding limit on debit card interchange on Wednesday, and most observers expect the Fed to lower it. But ask Visa Inc. about the matter—as analysts did Tuesday afternoon during the network’s September-quarter earnings call—and its top executives outwardly at least profess …

Though the official launch of the Paze online wallet from Early Warning Services LLC isn’t slated until 2024, Paze executives are already demonstrating the product. As many as 150 million credit and debit cards from seven large banks could be loaded into Paze, complete with billing addresses, as Early Warning …

The top management at Discover Financial Inc. said early Thursday its issues with regulatory compliance and merchant overcharges continue to cast a shadow over the company but could be on the way to being solved. The problems, which included misclassification of merchants resulting in overcharges for card acceptance, came to …

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors will consider revisions to its cap on debit card swipe fees at its meeting next Wednesday. The announcement was made as part of a public notice about the upcoming board meeting. While no further details were provided about the Fed’s intentions, retailers made it …

Health iPASS launched Health iPASS Cloud Payments, a processing service for health-care providers. Fiserv Inc. said it is leveraging its merchant-acceptance and card-issuing technology to ease embedded finance for client financial institutions. Metropolitan Commercial Bank said it will deploy cloud-based technology from Finzly to support payment processing via FedNow, Fedwire, and the automated …