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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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Dueling Trade Groups Seek to Sway the Payments Industry Over Durbin’s Credit Card Bill

With the introduction in Congress on Thursday of a bill that attacks rising credit card acceptance costs, lobbyists for both sides of the issue lost no time firing broadsides, pro and con, over the matter. The legislation, co-sponsored by Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Roger Marshall, R-Kan., seeks to ratchet down …

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It’s Too Soon To Know Impact of New Routing Proposal, Mastercard Says

Mastercard Inc. executives are paying close attention to a new proposal in the U.S. Congress that could alter merchant choice in routing credit card payments. Concurrently, its earnings are riding the crest of a wave that includes consumer spending and the resurgence in travel. A bipartisan bill sponsored by senators Richard …

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Experts Differ on the Consequences of Durbin’s Latest Effort to Control Merchants’ Card Costs

With a pair of U.S. Senators preparing to introduce a bill that would allow merchants to process Visa and Mastercard credit card payments over other networks, payments experts reached by Digital Transactions News are sharply divided on the idea. The bipartisan bill, sponsored by Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Roger Marshall, …

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Cardholder Volume Booms for AmEx As a Pandemic Recovery Continues

Network volumes and interchange revenues posted hefty increases at American Express Co. in the second quarter as consumers and businesses spent more while a recovery continues from the Covid-19 pandemic that hit two years ago. AmEx reported Friday that its network volumes totaled $394.8 billion in the quarter ending June …

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