Payments Dive

JUNE 27, 2024

Spending by travelers and tourists is often done in cash or by debit card, even if most travelers would prefer to pay another way.

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Cards 390

Payments Dive

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Visa, Mastercard and American Express are moving forward with use of a new gun merchant category code for credit card purchases in California, according to CBS News.

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Payments Dive

JULY 15, 2024

With summer vacation season in full swing, the card network suggested ways that its card clients can better protect themselves against the latest fraud threats.

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Cards Fraud 195

Payments Dive

APRIL 3, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau received 70,000 card-related complaints from consumers last year, according to a report last week.

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Cards Report 434

Payments Dive

JULY 8, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has found some patients felt pressured by healthcare providers to use medical credit cards, according to an update on the federal agency’s efforts to protect consumers.

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Payments Dive

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The state’s lawmakers approved a bill that would ban the use of plastic for gift cards by 2027, but it’s still waiting on the governor’s signature.

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Payments Dive

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The card issuer’s premium designation isn’t compatible with all potential card issuing partners, Amex CEO Steve Squeri said Tuesday.

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Payments Dive

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

“There's a huge, huge upside” for the environment every time a gift card is made from paper instead of PVC plastic, Blackhawk Network Senior Vice President Cara Renfroe said in an interview last week.

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Cards 418

Payments Dive

MARCH 20, 2024

New research from the Philadelphia and Boston Feds finds that consumers are cycling through low APR credit card offers.

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Payments Dive

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Consumers’ credit card debt rose nearly 5% in the fourth quarter, compared to the third quarter, adding to delinquencies as well.

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Cards 397

Payments Dive

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

As consumers have leaned on credit cards more in recent months, applications for credit card limit extensions also rose, the New York Fed said Monday.

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Payments Dive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Dick Durbin and Roger Marshall railed against expected credit card fee increases following a report that hikes are planned for October and April.

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Cards Report 418

Payments Dive

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The fight over the Credit Card Competition Act is intensifying on Capitol Hill, with Senate floor diatribes and doughnut truck freebies.

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Cards 418

Payments Dive

JULY 8, 2024

The card company has warned it could face an additional financial toll related to the misclassification legal matter, in which it overcharged merchants for years.

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Payments Dive

JANUARY 24, 2024

Credit cards balances, auto loans and high rents are straining low-income consumers’ limited budgets, the New York Fed details in a new report.

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Cards New York Report 408

Payments Dive

MAY 14, 2024

The Federal Reserve Board said it has received some 2,500 comment letters regarding its Regulation II proposal to cut the fees that merchants are charged when they accept debit cards.

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Cards Regulation 243

Payments Dive

APRIL 15, 2024

Card programs can increase purchase authorization rates without taking on undue fraud-liability risk with 3-D Secure (3DS). Here’s what it is and how card issuers can leverage it.

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Cards Fraud Security 243

Payments Dive

MAY 8, 2024

accounted for 58% of global commercial card spend last year, but also for 78% of total value lost to card fraud, according to a report by Euromonitor International.

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Payments Dive

AUGUST 25, 2023

After recasting its card strategy, the buy now, pay later provider is taking a gradual approach to adding new cardholders, teasing more rewards to come.

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Payments Dive

MAY 21, 2024

“Whether a shopper swipes a credit card or uses Buy Now, Pay Later, they are entitled to important consumer protections under longstanding laws and regulations,” CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said.

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Cards Regulation 243

Payments Dive

APRIL 24, 2023

Card, ACH and check payment values climbed from 2018 to 2021, as cash was left behind, according to the Federal Reserve’s noncash payments study.

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Payments Dive

MARCH 25, 2024

The card network giant identified 556,000 card accounts that were put at risk as a result of the cybercrime ring BidenCash’s release of data online in December.

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Cards Fraud Online Data 221

Payments Dive

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Fed hasn’t changed a debit card fee cap since it was put in place in 2011, but it's planning to take up the issue at a meeting next week.

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Cards Meeting 435

Payments Dive

OCTOBER 26, 2023

"With credit card debt crossing the trillion dollar mark, we will be working to prevent bait-and-switch tactics when it comes to rewards,” CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said in a Wednesday press release.

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Cards 403

Payments Dive

JUNE 23, 2023

The online broker said it agreed to acquire the credit card business for $95 million. X1 doesn’t charge card holders annual or late fees, but does charge interest.

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Cards Online 312

Payments Dive

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a new rule that would effectively cap credit card late fees and potentially save Americans $9 billion.

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Cards 418

Payments Dive

APRIL 18, 2024

The Swedish buy now, pay later pioneer revised its approach to credit cards in the U.S. market, ditching a more expensive version it touted two years ago.

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Cards Marketing 195

Payments Dive

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Consumer demand for credit cards rose this year over prior years, and card issuers increasingly approved their applications despite the worsening economic climate.

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Cards 378

Payments Dive

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Dick Durbin, sponsor of a card network competition bill, urged the CEOs of Visa and Mastercard to appear at an April congressional hearing and not send their underlings.

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Cards 259

Payments Dive

MAY 26, 2022

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is affecting card chip prices because Ukraine is home to two companies that produce half of the world’s neon supply, a key ingredient in chips.

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Cards Company 456

Payments Dive

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

An international standards body approved a new merchant code that will apply to gun sellers for transactions using credit card networks like Visa and Mastercard.

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Cards 459

Payments Dive

MARCH 27, 2024

Major credit card providers offset attractive rewards programs with fees and interest, costing consumers carrying balances, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said.

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Cards 243

Payments Dive

MAY 16, 2023

First-quarter credit card balances jumped 17% over the same period last year, according to New York Fed data.

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Cards New York Data 362

Payments Dive

MARCH 26, 2024

The tech giant’s fees for credit card transactions “cut into funding for features and benefits that banks might otherwise offer smartphone users,” the Department of Justice said in suing the company earlier this month.

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Cards Apple Company 259

Payments Dive

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Despite a pause in payments required for federal student loans, younger borrowers particularly are showing higher credit card delinquencies.

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Cards Payments 434

Payments Dive

MAY 7, 2024

The test offering provides buy now, pay later financing to a limited number of users of Block’s Cash App debit card for “a small fee.”

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Cards 195

Payments Dive

MAY 5, 2022

Employers with a Grubhub Corporate Account can set parameters on when workers can use the pay card or choose to give them a daily or weekly credit to use when ordering from partner restaurants on the delivery marketplace.

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Cards 396