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Community Banks, Where Moving Beyond Interest Income Is In The (Credit) Cards

PYMNTS

One area of (overlooked) potential lies with credit cards. We have definitely seen instances where community banks are innovating to meet the unique needs of their customer base,” he told PYMNTS. Issuing cards and creating a payments strategy, he said, can help community banks innovate in effective and exciting ways.

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Visa Announces Verifi Acquisition

PYMNTS

As of Monday morning (June 28), Visa has announced it has signed a definitive acquisition agreement with Verifi. The payment tech firm offers a suite of data-enriched solutions to help merchants avoid chargebacks on card payments.

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AI and generative AI use cases in banking: 6 real-world examples

Abrigo

Seeing generative AI use cases can help bankers, risk managers, and financial crime professionals better understand it. They can more easily consider how to harness genAI's power to enhance their operations, compliance, risk management, and member or customer experience.

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Credit Card or a Debit Card: Which is Safer?

ABA Community Banking

There are definitely pluses and minuses to both the consumer and the banks in terms of safety and credit Consumer Credit Financial Research Feature Financial Trends Risk Management Security Operational Risk Credit Risk Cyberfraud/ID Theft Feature3 Fintech.

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UK Cards in the Pandemic: New Data on Overlimit Requests

FICO

FICO has recently carried out a review of UK credit card spending requests for consumers that have either missed payments, already exceeded their agreed limit, or would exceed their limit if the transaction was approved. This keeps the decision consistent with their exclusion from credit card limit increases.

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Collections: UK Card Trends Show Delinquent Balances Mounting

FICO

Our latest review of UK card trends shows that 2-cycle balances continue to grow, which raises several concerns. In this post, I’ll review some of the metrics for UK “Classic” cardholders (excluding Premium and Student cards), break these down by vintage, and offer some thoughts on what issuers should do. .

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Prepaid Takes Its Place In FX Management: Volopa

PYMNTS

. “There have been recent events that have escalated the importance of FX volatility and managing it, whether it’s trade disputes happening internationally at the moment, or Brexit,” Wissema told PYMNTS. ” SMBs particularly appear challenged by FX risk mitigation, he noted. Enter: the prepaid card.