One of the ways cryptocurrency is becoming more familiar to consumers and merchants is through debit cards backed by crypto holdings. The latest development in this trend came to light early Friday with an announcement that the crypto exchange FTX.com will offer Visa-branded debit cards around the world. A launch …
Read More »OnShift And Payactive Eliminate Earned Wage Access Fees for Senior Care Workers
OnShift Inc., a provider of human-capital management software for caregivers, is dropping the fees for earned-wage access through its digital wallet. OnShift’s wallet runs on the Payactiv platform. As part of the new arrangement, senior care workers using the OnShift wallet can access a portion of their earned wages outside …
Read More »The Fed Makes It Final: All Issuers Must Offer a Choice of Unrelated Networks for All Debit
The Federal Reserve said late Monday it has completed work on a clarification that reinforces a more than decade-old requirement that issuers enable a choice of at least two competing networks for online debit card transactions. The release follows months of research and investigation by the Fed and will go …
Read More »Durbin Pushes to Attach His Credit Card Routing Proposal to a Senate Defense Bill
Indications emerged late last week that Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., has embarked on a strategy for his credit card routing bill that follows a path similar to one he forged a decade ago for his rules governing debit card routing. The veteran senator, along with co-sponsor Roger Marshall, R-Kan., have …
Read More »Four Trends Are Affecting U.S. Retail, a Checkout.com Report Finds
Everybody knows the U.S. retail arena is changing, but a new report from Checkout.com reveals that four trends, among them the growth in digital payments, currently are most affecting it. Rising prices, consumers seeking new shopping channels, and increased competitiveness are the other three trends altering the retail landscape. United …
Read More »The Credit Card Industry Faces a Cardholder Issue on Top of Durbin’s Routing Threat
As the Federal Reserve prepares to raise interest rates for what would be the fifth time this year, U.S credit card holders are already feeling the squeeze. Some 60% of all cardholders are not only in debt to the issuer, they have been in debt for a year or more, …
Read More »As E-Commerce Soars, Network Tokens Take off
Visa Inc. announced late Wednesday it has now issued more network tokens than there are physical Visa cards, eight years after the launch of the Visa Token Service. With a boom in e-commerce and other digital applications, the service has now issued more than 4 billion tokens, Visa said, almost …
Read More »RMS Acquires OrbaGraph And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/18/22
OrbaGraph, a payment automation firm, said Revenue Management Solutions acquired the company. Private equity firm Thompson Street Capital Partners funded the acquisition. Terms were not disclosed.Dan Price, cofounder of Gravity Payments, which set a minimum starting annual salary of $70,000 for his employees and cut his salary from $1 million …
Read More »MoneyGram Online Revenue Increased 13% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/5/22
MoneyGram International Inc. said its MoneyGram Online digital service had second quarter revenue of $53.3 million, up 13% from $47 million in the same quarter in 2021. Its overall revenue of $329.6 million in the quarter, was up slightly from $329.3 million revenue in the 2021 second quarter. MoneyGram posted a …
Read More »Shift4 Spells Out Big Ambitions for Bigger Merchants And International Expansion
Shift4 Payments Inc. has long made no secret of its plans to expand the average size of the merchants it serves, but early on Thursday its chief executive made the company’s overarching strategy crystal clear following recent signings of such international clients as Time Inc. and SpaceX’s Starlink satellite business, …
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