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Eye on EMV: Chip Card Counts Grows by 1.4 Billion; Discover Streamlines EMV Processes
With the U.S. EMV transition just getting into high gear, the number of EMV chip cards worldwide increased last year by 1.4 billion, or 41%, the EMVCo standards body reported Thursday. Meanwhile, Discover Financial Services joined the other three U.S. general-purpose payment card networks in taking steps to speed up …
Read More »Eye on Earnings: Card Volume Up for AmEx And Discover, But AmEx To Cut Jobs
American Express Co. reported $182.5 billion in U.S. card-billed business in the fourth quarter, up 7.9% from $169.1 billion a year earlier, and discount-fee revenues increased 1.8% to $4.99 billion from $4.90 billion. The average worldwide discount rate, however, decreased three basis points to 2.45% of the sale. American Express …
Read More »EFT Networks and Discover Strike a Deal That Could Resolve a Chip Card Controversy
With help from Discover Financial Services, regional electronic funds transfer networks this week took a major step toward ending a dilemma over how merchants can route PIN-debit transactions made on chip cards through EFT networks and still meet the Durbin Amendment’s transaction-routing requirements. Previously, the main routes available for …
Read More »High-Tech PayPal-Discover Tieup Rests on Huge Issuance of Old-Tech Mag-Stripe Cards
The massive deal PayPal Inc. and Discover Financial Services announced on Wednesday that will bring online-payments leader PayPal to 7 million physical U.S. merchant locations has all the hallmarks of electronic payments in the 21st Century’s second decade, including digital wallets and cloud-based technology. But the foundation of the deal …
Read More »Discover Releases an EMV Plan That Echoes Key Deadlines from Visa, MasterCard
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Read More »Isis Now Counts Visa, MasterCard, Discover, And AmEx As Network Partners
Rebounding after abandoning plans to build a proprietary merchant network, the Isis mobile-payments joint venture of three leading telecommunications companies on Tuesday said it had enlisted the support of the four major general-purpose card networks in the U.S. The announcement marks an advance by the venture backed by AT&T, …
Read More »Aiming to Boost Its Position with Cardholders, Discover Launches a P2P Service with PayPal
Once avoided as a money-loser, person-to-person payments are picking up momentum, with Discover Financial Services as the latest entrant. Discover’s Money Messenger service, which went live Monday, allows cardholders to send cash to anyone with a PayPal account. Recipients who aren’t PayPal customers can set up an account quickly via …
Read More »Discover’s Prepaid Teen Card Is the Latest Entry in a So-So Market
Discover Financial Services this week unveiled a teen-oriented prepaid card called Current by Discover. Current is the latest entrant in a niche that includes the Visa Buxx and Allow MasterCard, prepaid cards that may have garnered more headlines than users. But Discover says its new card has straightforward pricing and …
Read More »Discover Expands Its Gift Card Franchise Through a Big Mall Operator
Discover Financial Services LLC for the first time is selling its gift card to non-Discover customers and at retail locations through a new agreement with Chicago-based General Growth Properties Inc., the nation's second-largest regional shopping mall developer and manager. Under the program, consumers will be able to buy Discover gift …
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