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12 Coolest Brands in Banking 2016

Bank Innovation

We are proud fintech nerds, and for five years we have marked the Coolest Brands in Banking on Bank Innovation based not on the type of sunglasses worn by a CEO, but on the Read More. When we think of cool, James Dean doesn’t immediately come to mind. The app Songsterr does.

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Credit, Debit, Prepaid Card Purchases Increased 7 Percent In 2016

PYMNTS

Credit, debit and prepaid cards issued in the U.S. saw purchase volume increase 7 percent year over year in 2016. That’s according to the Nilson Report, which said in a press release Monday (May 8) that credit, debit and prepaid cards’ purchase volume in the U.S. reached $5.648 trillion in 2016. percent, up from 45.84

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Union Pay Pushes Pause On Co-Branded Cards

PYMNTS

The times they are a changin’ — as the People’s Bank of China has ordered local banks to stop issuing co-branded (bearing both the logo of UnionPay and a foreign card network), dual currency payment cards in mainland China, according to reports emerging this morning. dollars while traveling abroad.

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Why The Market Liked Visa’s Quarterly Report Card

PYMNTS

That growth, extending across credit and debit card transactions, was enough to propel results past estimates on Thursday, as adjusted net income came in at $0.84 The total card count was up 27 percent to 3.1 billon cards. That total figure was outpaced by debit cards, which gained 31 percent. billion, besting the $4.3

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Starwood Devalues Points On Amex Card

PYMNTS

Users of the Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) American Express (Amex) card aren’t happy with the changes coming to their cards, which give them one-third fewer reward points for almost every dollar they spend. The SPG Amex card had paid one Starpoint for each dollar spent on everyday items.

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Card-Linking Transaction Loyalty Sees Surge

PYMNTS

It appears that more and more consumers are getting better connected with loyalty programs by linking their cards to them. “Card-linking has a network effect, and it is accelerating,” stated Silvio Tavares, CardLinx president and CEO, in a press release. .

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PYMNTS’ 2016 Roundup: Retail Edition

PYMNTS

2016 started off with a bang in the retail world when MPD and PYMNTS uncovered a few discrepancies in the retail data that many major retailers and reporting institutions were using to underestimate the impact of digital sales on brick-and-mortar sales. “In A Retail Data Reporting Error Was Uncovered.

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