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Wells Fargo Seeks Bidders For Private-Label Credit Card Unit

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Wells Fargo & Co is seeking to sell its private-label credit card and point-of-sale (POS) financing unit as part of an ongoing strategic review of its businesses. Selling the private-label credit card unit would be a business reversal for the financial services group. Wells Fargo also reported heightened debit card usage.

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New Year’s Resolution: The Clearing House Urges Banks To Become 24/7 Operations

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To do that, and to clear the next hurdle, Whisler said many financial institutions (FIs) still need to “modernize internally to be a 24/7 operation shop.”. We will definitely see that continuing to evolve,” Whisler said.

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Know Your Rights! Credit Card Billing Rules from July 1st, 2022

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Here’s everything you need to know about Credit Card billing, effective from July 1st, 2022, as defined by the RBI’s guidelines around Credit and Debit Card issuance released in April. These guidelines include new rules around Credit Card closure, billing cycles and so forth. Credit Card Billing Cycle.

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Deep Dive: How Payment Card Networks Win Merchants Over

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billion non-prepaid debit card transactions in 2018, solidifying debit as a staple payment type. They insert or swipe their debit cards at stores’ point-of-sale (POS) devices — or key in details online — and maybe enter PINs, but the behind-the-scenes processes through which transactions are routed are kept invisible. shoppers made 72.7

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Chef’d Halts Operations After Burning Through Cash

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Chef’d , a the meal-kit operator, has halted its business operations after using up all its cash and failing to line up more of it. While it was able to ink deals with large food companies and diet plans, it was tough to run the operation — and thus the cash burn rate. They are definitely having growing pains,” he said. “It

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Closing The Bank/Middle Market Commercial Card Gap

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Yet, according to Kris Carrera, general manager and business line executive of Credit Payments at FIS , the middle market is often underserved — particularly when it comes to commercial card products. As such, middle-market businesses have different motivations than their smaller and larger counterparts for adopting commercial card solutions.

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Building Vendor Trust With Virtual Cards

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and divisions in the Netherlands, Singapore and South Korea — have embraced offerings like virtual and purchasing cards that expedite the payment workflow. . Virtual cards move payments quickly,” Phoenix said. “We Making Virtual Cards A Reality . In addition, virtual card numbers can be used only once before they expire. .

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