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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 …
October, 2023
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26 October
Mastercard Revenue up 12% And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/26/23
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 …
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25 October
Don’t Expect a ‘Here Lies Interchange’ Epitaph Any Time Soon
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 …
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24 October
Visa’s CEO Downplays Potential Impact From a Fed Meeting on Debit Interchange
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 …
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24 October
Bitpay’s Crypto Move And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/25/23
Bitpay, a provider of cryptocurrency-based payments services, said it is working with crypto-technology provider Banxa to enlarge access to payments using digital currency. Shield Compliance, a compliance provider for cannabis banking, issued an open letter to American Express, Discover, Mastercard, and Visa calling on the networks to permit financial institutions …
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24 October
Fiserv Touts a Link to Melio to Reach More Banks for Payments And Acquiring
Numbers from Fiserv Inc. early Tuesday indicate the big processor’s payments and network business for financial institutions is growing at a steady clip, with September-quarter revenue in that business up 5% year-over-year, to $1.71 billion in volume. Riding that wave, the company’s top brass late Monday announced a deal with …
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24 October
Paze’s Digital Wallet Uses a Bank-Centered Fintech Approach to E-Commerce Checkout
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 …
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24 October
Blackhawk’s Rewards And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/24/23
Prepaid payments platform Blackhawk Network said it is working with customer-engagement provider Extole to enable digital rewards and incentives for Blackhawk client merchants. U.S.-based Beame Technologies Inc. said it is working with authentication platform LISNR to offer BeamPay, a mobile-payments service, in Cabo Verde, Africa. U.S.-based business-to-business payments platform Balance said it is working with Hokodo, …
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23 October
Rewards And Loyalty to Brands Still Drive Consumer Credit Use, Marqeta Finds
While rewards are the biggest reason consumers choose a credit card, cardholders believe issuers have more room for improvement when developing rewards programs, especially when it comes to personalization, according to Marqeta Inc.’s 2023 State of Credit report. The report reveals that 58% of consumers surveyed cited rewards as the …
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23 October
Screen Scraping’s Role in Open Banking Is on the Short List
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s oversight effort in data-sharing regulation is more than a year old, but with its newly proposed data-rights rule—released last week—the agency is making a substantial move in the field. Under the Personal Financial Data Rights rule, consumers would have the power to share data associated …