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UK Card Spend Reaches Highest Level Since at Least 2006

FICO

But this year’s rise seems to also have been driven by inflation, pushing the amount of average credit card spend in the UK to the highest level since our UK Risk Benchmarking records began in 2006. This rise occurred in a month when UK retail sales volumes were widely reported as being down relative to past years.

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UK Cards Data: Increase in Cardholders Missing Two Payments

FICO

In a similar vein, the FICO data shows that many of those consumers missing one credit card payment in December continued to struggle with their debts in the new year, with a marked increased in two missed payments. percent higher than December 2022 Average balance on credit card accounts with two missed payments was 1.9

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Synchrony Financial CEO Taking Wait And See Approach With Apple Card

PYMNTS

Margaret Keane, the CEO of Synchrony Financial, the biggest provider of store credit cards, said the card industry will be keeping a close watch on how Goldman Sachs handles its partnership with Apple in regards to the newly announced Apple Card. Co-branded cards, as all payments professionals know, have been around for decades.

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U.K. Sees Card-Not-Present Purchases Soar

PYMNTS

With the popularity of online shopping, it should come as no surprise that there’s been an uptick in card-not-present purchases. Cards Association (UKCA) finds that the amount of purchases made through debit and credit cards has more than doubled in the past decade. A new report from the U.K. There were 6.7 There were 6.7

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Payroc Expands Payment Processing Services With Bluestone Payments Acquisition

PYMNTS

Bluestone Payments, founded by Linda Rossetti and launched in 2006, connects merchants in niche markets to payments programs through a referral system. Payroc processes payments for over 66,000 merchants in 46 countries and also offers full-service merchant acquiring solutions and card brand network payments sponsorship registrations. “I

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Sweden going cashless

Chris Skinner

There are no fully–comparable figures from any of the surveys carried out in 2006, but in 2006 the “average consumer” did not choose to pay by card until the purchase sum exceeded SEK 123.” Our survey shows that as many as 22 per cent choose cash for purchases between SEK 100 and SEK 500.

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Turning To The Crowd ? And Gift Cards ? To Fund Honeymoons

PYMNTS

In a recent interview with PYMNTS, Margulis explained how Honeyfund has expanded its presence since its 2006 founding by offering modern newlyweds a way to fund the experiences of their dreams. . “We The Honeyfund team had to “crack the code” on fee-free online payment processing, and did so by turning to gift cards. “We

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