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MARCH 25, 2019

And so a tech giant gets into the credit card game. And not just any tech giant – it’s Apple, the company whose payment services were touted (by at least some) as a credit card killer. News came Monday (March 25) that Apple – specifically, through its payments service Apple Pay – has launched the Apple Care credit card.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

Apple Card users are complaining that a glitch is preventing them from using the payment method on Amazon — and the option vanished as a choice without warning or reason, according to media reports on Friday (Oct. My Apple Card has been removed from my Amazon Wallet. We’re sorry, we weren’t able to save your credit card information.

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JULY 23, 2020

European FinTech payments company myPOS , which works in offering affordable payments to small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has new credit cards that it says will help SMBs in Europe access new benefits, according to a press release. Since its launch in 2014, myPOS has offered the cards for free whenever someone opens an account.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

The time has come for some truth on the world of payment card flips. disrupted banks’ income on debit cards. had in 2011, they’re likely to see an 18% to 25% volume shift from signature to PIN card transactions by the end of 2025. And the threat of disruption on credit cards looms large.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Fleet payments company FLEETCOR is facing criticism over fees associated with its fleet cards, according to reports in Bloomberg last week, which small businesses (SMBs) say are too high. The issue mirrors the debate over payroll card fees, and raises new concerns over fees linked to card products for businesses, including interchange fees.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Such factors could drive companies worldwide to seek the utility and flexibility of delivering payroll via prepaid cards, and this month’s Deep Dive examines companies’ growing interest in these tools. . It found that just 2 percent of respondents offered payroll cards in 2014, but that this figure had risen to 28.5

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American Banker

AUGUST 6, 2020

Credit card balances declined most sharply as consumers cut back their spending due to the coronavirus pandemic and associated shutdown orders, the New York Fed said Thursday. But delinquencies also fell across all debt categories, thanks to government and lender relief efforts.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Nike is offering 3 percent cash back to Apple Card users when a Nike product is purchased using Apple Pay , TechCrunch reported Monday (Nov. The deal applies to all Nike products when purchases are made using the Apple Card through the Nike website, retail stores, Nike Training Club and more. customers in August.

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JUNE 9, 2020

Singapore-based Nium said that with this business arrangement, it will be able to shorten the time for issuing a Visa card to just four to six weeks. The company said in a prepared statement : “Currently, business owners rely on outdated card management systems as part of their corporate bank accounts.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

A New York man, 39-year-old Bogdan Rusu, was sentenced to 60 months in prison on charges of using credit card skimming tactics to steal $390,141 from various New Jersey banks, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) report. From there, they used the information to steal customers’ money from their accounts.

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JUNE 17, 2019

American Express said its May card delinquency rate was unchanged from April, according to reports. percent, and the small business card delinquency rate went up to 1.3 Small business card net write-offs also increased, from 1.8 The rate held steady at 1.4 Net write-offs, however, did move slightly in may, from April’s 2.4

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JUNE 24, 2016

Global technical body EMVCo has released its updated report on the number of EMV chip payment cards, saying that the figure has increased 1.4 percent of all card-present transactions conducted globally between Jan. 2015 used chip technology, which was up slightly from 32 percent for the same period in 2014.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

Mobeewave specializes in letting shoppers utilize their smartphones to access a credit card and process payments. The system works via an app and does not require any further hardware beyond a Near Field Communications (NFP) chip, the likes of which have been included in iPhones since 2014, Bloomberg wrote.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

Credit card companies have not been shy when it comes to lending to subprime customers , but according to new data from TransUnion, that strategy is starting to backfire for the credit card issuers. In 2014, the paper noted the rate was 2.2 percent for credit cards issued in 2014 and 1.5

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JULY 6, 2018

billion payment chip cards were shipped worldwide in 2017. While shipment volumes in China and the United States “continue to normalize,” contactless payment cards are more than 70 percent of shipments in “a growing number of territories,” the association said in an announcement. marking a twofold increase over 2014.

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CFPB Monitor

JUNE 15, 2015

The CFPB has announced that its FY 2014 service contract inventory is available for public viewing. The inventory provides information on service contracts over $25,000 funded by the CFPB in FY 2014. These obligations represented, respectively, 18.96% and 16.84% of the CFPB’s total FY 2014 obligations.

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JUNE 20, 2017

Fuel card company FLEETCOR has a new leadership position, and the news was announced Monday (June 19) that the company appointed Steve Greene to the role. In 2014 Greene was then named managing director for Epyx, a service and repair company acquired by FLEETCOR in 2013.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

While virtual cards (v-cards) can offer a secure and efficient way for businesses to pay travel suppliers, some industry players have highlighted a key pain point for the payment rail: For suppliers accepting v-cards , they still have to manually enter payment data. New reports on Tuesday (Sept.

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APRIL 28, 2016

is soaring the global demand for smart payment cards by as much as 34 percent, a new Smart Payment Association (SPA) report has found. billion chip cards were supplied — of which, 570 million were shipped to the U.S., marking a twofold increase over 2014. The shift to EMV in the U.S. Last year alone, over 2.06

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

A new report shows that, across the globe, there were more than 270 billion card payments in 2015, an increase of 15 percent over 2014. Such an increase, according to RBR’s Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts to 2021, is almost double the 8 percent rise in card numbers alone.

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JUNE 16, 2016

Atlanta-based Home Depot says new payment cards with “chip” technology remain less secure in the U.S. than cards used in Europe and elsewhere in the world. cards still rely on customers’ handwritten signatures for verification, rather than more secure Personal Identification Numbers, or PINs, Home Depot maintains.

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The Paypers

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

million settlement of a multistate lawsuit stemming from a 2014 data breach that compromised the payment card data of 40 million customers. The Home Depot has reached a USD 17.5

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Nike is offering 3 percent cash back to Apple Card users when a Nike product is purchased using Apple Pay , TechCrunch reported Monday (Nov. The deal applies to all Nike products when purchases are made using the Apple Card through the Nike website, retail stores, Nike Training Club and more. customers in August.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The number of global payment cards will grow by 28 percent to 17 billion by 2021. In the newest global payment cards research released on Oct. 31, RBR said that debit card numbers are growing faster than credit cards, which is a trend that will continue. Card numbers in those areas will be up between 10 and 13 percent.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Changes to commercial card regulations could be tripping up small businesses in Australia, according to reports on Friday (Sept. Paying with a commercial card means up to 55 days interest-free (an offer from the cards’ issuing banks). An interchange fee cap means less profits for the banks. would impact the market.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Seventy-one percent of respondents said credit cards were imperative when deciding the FIs with which they want to do business, for example. percent of all CU members — currently offer some sort of credit card. billion in credit card debt as of March 2019, according to the U.S. percent of credit card debt held by banks.

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JULY 27, 2016

Victims of an illegal credit card billing scam have started receiving checks from the Federal Trade Commission. According to the FTC, the operators of the illegal credit card scheme made unauthorized charges on the credit cards and debit cards of victims for internet services they didn’t get. billion.

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JULY 17, 2018

Since the migration to EMV in the largest card market in the world (the U.S. in October of 2015), the incidences of counterfeit card fraud at chip-enabled merchants have fallen sharply — some 76 percent, as reported by card networks. Once cards became significantly harder to clone, fraudsters took their bag of bad tricks online.

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JUNE 17, 2020

Amazon customers in 12 countries across North America, Latin America, the Middle East and Europe will have their stored credit card credentials tokenized, Mastercard announced Wednesday (June 17). The move to tokenization comes amid the rise of eCommerce as consumers save and manage their card details across multiple websites.

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JULY 15, 2019

That fraud spans, among other methods, misuse of government credit cards and procurement payments, reported itnews.com. And when it comes to external fraud, 95 percent of external fraud can be traced to “one large entity” focused on payment card fraud. The report said the fraud had been identified and addressed. Grayson Jr.,

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APRIL 24, 2017

A Russian hacker was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for stealing credit card numbers and selling the data online, according to The New York Times. Seleznev was convicted for running a credit card and identity theft business out of his homes in Indonesia and Russia. “This prosecution is unprecedented.”

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AUGUST 4, 2017

Savings app Qapital is now offering a new checking account and debit card to its customers, in addition to its already existing savings account. in 2014 and shifted focus to helping consumers manage their day-to-day spending through an automated savings tool central to its service.

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MAY 19, 2020

million to settle allegations that they laundered credit card transactions for scams targeting hundreds of thousands of consumers, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Tuesday (May 19). The FTC said that Ko operated First Pay Solutions LLC, an independent sales organization (ISO) affiliated with First Data, from 2012 to 2014.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

16) the launch of its Universal Card Link Connector, which enables industry operators in the amusement and arcade industries to connect cashless payment options, such as credit and debit cards and mobile wallets, to their equipment. In a press release , USA Technologies said it developed the connector due to guidelines out in Nov.

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JULY 11, 2016

Late last week, The Register reported that 105 suspects of credit card fraud were arrested in Asia and Europe after a cybercrime ring was busted by authorities. The suspects are accused of using counterfeit credit cards to buy luxury goods, and house searches of the accused resulted in the discovery of 3,000 fraudulent payment cards.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The high fees charged by private firms that are hired by the courts to operate e-filing systems and that are often passed onto consumers who pay with a credit card have been capped by a bill approved by California Governor Jerry Brown on Sept. Convenience fees charged by Tyler range from 2.75 percent to 3.5 There were 7.5

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

New data suggests that they are buying more gift cards than ever before but then turning around and spending those cards on themselves. adults in June of this year to examine the shift in gift card consumers to prepaid and rechargeable cards issued directly from retailers. Mercator Advisory Group surveyed 3,009 U.S.

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