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Private Label Retail Credit Card Delinquencies At Highest Rate Since 2011

PYMNTS

The severe delinquency rate on private label retail credit cards jumped 57 basis points from March of last year and stands at 4.65 percent, according to Equifax ’s latest National Consumer Credit Trends Report. Currently, they are at their highest level since the early part of 2011. billion are up 0.8 billion are up 0.8

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Swedish Payment Company iZettle Raises $47 Million in Funding

Bank Innovation

The round was led by venture capital firm Dawn and The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund. Established in 2011, iZettle enables small business merchants across Europe and Latin America to accept card payments. Swedish payment company iZettle today announced it raised €40 million ($47.05 Over the past years, it […].

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24 Big European Banks Take On Visa, Mastercard With Their Own Payment System

PYMNTS

PEPSI promises to rival not only the two credit card giants, but also other financial technology companies including Google , Apple , Alipay and WeChat Pay. . In 2011, PYMNTS reported on the Monnet Project , where two dozen European banks from seven countries considered starting a new European card system.

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Barclays Shuts Down Online Banking Services on Easter Weekend

Bank Innovation

bank said it will be switching off access to 24 million customers as the bank restructures itself as required by national regulation. These changes were established by the Bank of England in 2011, and is referred […]. Barclays customers across Europe will not be able to use their mobile banking app this weekend. The major U.K.

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Why US Credit Card Fraud Complaints Are On The Rise

PYMNTS

Credit card fraud complaints in the U.S. ValuePenguin analyzed data collected by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and found that there were approximately 70,000 credit card fraud complaints submitted in 2015. At the state level, the number of credit card fraud complaints were much more pronounced. Across the U.S.,

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What’s it like being unbanked?

Chris Skinner

Although other statistics do not corroborate this number, putting the levels around 40% banked and 60% unbanked, with 79% unable to get credit cards. In 2011, 2.5 Meanwhile, Argentina has most of its population adult banked, with just 15% unbanked, but less than 10% of adults have access to credit and 5% to savings.

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Second Share Purchase Deal Values POS Startup Toast At $8B

PYMNTS

Founded in 2011 by Aman Narang , Jonathan Grimm and Steve Fredette , the startup closed a $400 million funding round in February at a $4.9 The Toast platform facilitates and streamlines dine-in restaurants’ move to takeout and also enables easy gift card sales. billion valuation pre-pandemic in February. billion valuation. .

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