Payments Dive

APRIL 13, 2022

Higher spending due to inflation is poised to drive up credit card volumes, according to an S&P Global Market Intelligence report. Card issuers have been eager to see stronger loan growth, but if delinquencies rise, that could be concerning for the industry.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 27, 2019

Credit card distribution startup Extend sees a $400 billion market opportunity in eliminating out-of-pocket spending for business expenses through the instant issuance of virtual company credit cards.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 26, 2023

The CFPB has issued a new request for information (RFI) to inform its biennial review of the credit card market mandated by the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 (CARD Act). Comments on the RFI must be received by April 24, 2023.

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Payments Dive

MAY 2, 2022

The Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin-based retail chain tested the program in eight markets over the past year and found an increase in Kohl's Card acquisitions and overall sales.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

won approval to set up a bank card clearing business in China, gaining access to a $27 trillion payments market as part of the nation’s financial opening. Mastercard Inc.

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Payments Dive

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The card company is betting its soon-to-be relaunched debit account services will help it better compete with fintech and neobank rivals.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

CPI Card Group announced that it has launched Second Wave cards for markets including transit, hospitality, entertainment and more. First launched in September, Second Wave payment cards feature a core made with recovered ocean-bound plastic to reduce first-use plastic while diverting plastic waste from entering the ocean.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 15, 2020

card companies just moved a step closer to gaining access to China’s $27 trillion payments market. The biggest U.S. China said it won’t take longer than 90 days to consider applications from providers of electronic-payments services such as Mastercard, Visa and American Express Co.,

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Rapyd, a startup that converts international payments, announced a partnership with Visa this week to grow its card issuing business. “A A major opportunity for us, and we’re seeing this around the world from a sheer use-case perspective, is card issuing,” said Marc Winitz, chief marketing officer at Rapyd.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 21, 2019

To CARD.com, however, personalization actually refers to the look and feel of its debit card. Card's website presents the offering as an attempt to make banking fun ("CARD.com treats you as an individual who is cool like James Dean," the website states). Most banks approach personalization solely through the lens of digital experience.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The corporate card can have a home in the digital wallet thanks to collaborations and technology platforms designed for card issuers. FinTech firm Nium has teamed with Southeast Asia neo-bank Aspire to enable a mobile payments feature with its cards. The collaboration will make every Aspire card available through Google Pay.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 27, 2023

On October 25, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its sixth consumer credit card market biennial report to Congress as required under the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act (CARD Act). Continue Reading

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Payments Dive

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Despite the plethora of payment choices we have today, many of us are still using our debit cards. Carol Specogna, Fiserv's VP of card services, gives an overview of the market and talks about new technologies that FIs can leverage to boost their debit card revenue.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Consumer Bankers Association has launched a four-part blog series “Facts Matter” to counter what it calls “misinformation conveyed by the CFPB” in its press release about the CFPB’s October 2023 report (Report) under the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act (CARD Act). Continue Reading

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Cards Report Marketing 88

Bank Innovation

JANUARY 9, 2020

cleared a key hurdle in its bid to accessing China’s $27 trillion payments market after the central bank accepted its application to start a bank card clearing business. American Express Co. The People’s Bank of China made the announcement on its official Wechat account Wednesday, without giving more details.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

For businesses, the world market was thrown into volatility, yet soon, new opportunities emerged. For the corporate card, 2020 has been a season for dramatic shifts in how the payment tool is used and the value it adds to the enterprise. The year 2020 began inconspicuously — but in a few short weeks, everything changed. Winter Blues.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

23) announcement that the card is now available in France, Austria, Italy, Ireland and Spain beyond its current availability in the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States. percent cash back on all of their eligible spending with the debit card. The companies said in a Wednesday (Sept. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

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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Payments Dive

JUNE 17, 2022

"The Visa-Mastercard duopoly controls about 80% of the market share, allowing them to raise fees indiscriminately and with no formidable opposition," contends Doug Kantor, general counsel for the National Association of Convenience Stores.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2021

With businesses large and small increasingly turning their attention toward recovery efforts, the commercial credit card market is exploring ways to help their corporate card holders. Commercial Card, Global Commercial Services, Courtney Kelso in a statement. Neat Debuts Its Visa Card For Small Businesses.

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Payments Dive

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Globally, the reliance on card-payment methods is failing merchants and their ability to further monetize. billion credit card owners. Despite the fact that there are 5 billion phone owners globally, there are only 1.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

United Airlines and Chase Card Services today launched a “United Gateway” credit card that carries no annual fee and offers new users who charge $1,000 within three months of enrolling 20,000 frequent-flier miles. The card's rewards program includes 3 travel miles for every $1 spent on groceries through Sept.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

11) to set up a bank card clearing business, granting access to a $27 trillion payments market, according to reports. . The People’s Bank of China said in a statement that it has approved an application by Mastercard’s Chinese joint venture to conduct bank card clearing business in the country.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Mao, whose company provides solutions for payments, prepaid cards and gift cards, said the only way for merchants to go is forward, because going back isn’t an option. Digital Gift Cards ’ Growth. For instance, people are simply directing more spend at gift cards this holiday season. Not All ‘Gift’ Cards Are Gifts .

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Payments Source

JANUARY 17, 2020

both in number of people and number of credit card owners, the U.K. remains to be a very lucrative market for issuing banks and card networks, as well as a host of alternative financial service providers catering to younger, underserved consumers. While not as large as the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Smaller companies were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to new cards designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). American Express, Amazon Rollout Card For UK SMBs. American Express rolled out co-branded cards with Amazon for British SMBs.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

plans to offer a Samsung Pay Card that will give customers “a simple and flexible way to control their money,” the company said in a Wednesday (June 24) press release. Noting the partnership with Curve “is the first of its kind in Europe for Samsung Pay,” the firm said the Samsung Pay Card will launch in the U.K. later this year. “We

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 27, 2020

The CFPB has issued a new request for information about the credit card market that seeks comment on two related, but separate, reviews. The RFI includes citations to each of the CARD Act rules and further information about their content.). (The CARD Act Review. Section 610 Review. Debt relief and settlement.

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The Paypers

APRIL 23, 2024

Episode Six has partnered with DCS Card Centre in order to launch Credit Cards-as-a-Services for fintechs, in Singapore and later on in other APAC markets.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

has unveiled a partnership to power the expansion of Crypto.com ’s end-to-end crypto ecosystem, which consists of a Visa crypto debit card and a wallet app to buy and sell crypto and earn cash-back rewards in crypto form. They can directly top-up their cards for free, or top-up fiat currencies directly from their fiat wallets on Crypto.com.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

This week's Commercial Card Innovation Tracker finds FinTechs and payment technology players like Mastercard, Visa and Nets embracing partnerships to roll out new corporate card solutions, including virtual commercial cards and small business credit cards designed to enhance spend management and help SMBs access credit during turbulent times.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2019

Sephora, the beauty retailer, announced on Thursday (March 14) the launch of a new credit card program. The company said in a press release that starting in the spring, it will offer the Sephora credit card, Sephora Visa® credit card and Sephora Visa Signature® credit card to its retail customers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Digital B2B payments innovations as diverse as machine learning (ML) automation, cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and virtual cards are gaining unprecedented traction as businesses move to build sustainable B2B payments operations outside of th e office. RLJ Financial On Managing B2B Spend With Virtual Cards.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The growth of the mobile commerce (mCommerce) and eCommerce industries is fueling the global smart card industry, which is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8 percent through 2020, according to a new research report. All such factors are expected to drive the market during the forecast period.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

At the dawn of 2020, commercial cards made up only a fraction of overall B2B payments volume, even as corporates continued their slow-but-sure payments digitization efforts away from the paper check. But in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, the corporate card seemed to unlock more value for businesses large and small.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Might mobile payments help revolutionize corporate cards? As a result, he said, many firms pivoted quickly toward card payments. “It Cards, of course, are also inherently vulnerable to fraudsters’ attacks. Cards, of course, are also inherently vulnerable to fraudsters’ attacks. It’s low touch, it’s auditable and quick.

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Payments Source

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

I2c and Unifimoney change incentives to fit market conditions, rather than focusing primarily on boosting consumer spending.

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