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FTC Refunds $12M To Consumer Victims Of Bogus Online Trial Memberships

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The FTC alleged the Utah-based company operated deceptive trial memberships and bogus government grant and money-making schemes in 2010. I Works asked consumers to provide their credit or debit card information to pay a $1.99 shipping, handling or processing fee. Recipients with mailing addresses outside the U.S.

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Deep Dive: How Payment Card Networks Win Merchants Over

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billion non-prepaid debit card transactions in 2018, solidifying debit as a staple payment type. They insert or swipe their debit cards at stores’ point-of-sale (POS) devices — or key in details online — and maybe enter PINs, but the behind-the-scenes processes through which transactions are routed are kept invisible.

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i2c, Sightline Team Up For Cashless Cross-Channel Gaming 

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Founded in 2010, Sightline has experienced 744 percent revenue growth since 2015. Its client roster includes MGM Resorts, Caesars Resorts, and Hard Rock Hotel and Casino; the Oregon and Pennsylvania state lotteries; Churchill Downs; Golden Nugget online; and DraftKings, FanDuel, William Hill, and Rush Street sports, among others.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

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As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.” — John Collison.

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Amazon Gains Ground In Holdout Markets

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Take, for example, Italy, where Amazon has been operating since 2010 with what The New York Times describes as rather “muted success” since selling its first children’s book in the nation nearly a decade ago. By and large, Italian consumers first encountered Amazon as a group that firmly preferred shopping in person and paying in cash.

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UK Bank NatWest Introduces Merchant Acquiring Service For SMBs

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NatWest Tyl will help institutions with online credit card payment logistics, both online and in store. RBS sold Worldpay to Advent International and Bain Capital for £2 billion in 2010, in a deal that proved fortuitous for the buyers, as the payments industry has flourished in the past few years.

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Consumers Shift From Banks To Direct Billing Services

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online bill payments made by consumers in 2016 were conducted via biller-direct sites — up from 62 percent in 2010. That growth came, in part, at the expense of bill-paying sites and services operated by banks. They accounted for 27 percent of online bill payments in 2016, down from 38 percent in 2010.

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