The National Restaurant Association has asked Congress to mandate the reduction of credit card interchange fees during the current crisis;...
Around the world cash usage is on the decline as governments from India to Kenya to Sweden promote cashless payments...
Leading digital bank Chime has launched an innovative new credit card called Credit Builder; surveys have shown that most millennials...
Coinbase and Mastercard announced a partnership to offer users more "payment choices" on the upcoming Coinbase NFT platform.
Meet Islands of Cool, a blockchain-based carbon removal project out of New Zealand that wants to make carbon offsets cool.
Cambridge announced a joint research effort between the Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance and 16 private sector leaders.
These operations had been legally challenged by credit card companies, which currently dominate this type of activity in Chile.
According to Visa 96 percent of U.S. payment volume took place on chip cards, with the large majority being chip and signature cards; starting next month major card brands will look to move customers to the chip and PIN cards that have been widely adopted across Europe; Merchants will be able to turn cell phones into terminals instead of buying expensive POS terminals with pin pads; wide adoption will take time as smaller retailers might not see the benefits as quickly and large retailers have invested a lot in the current technology. Source.
The $5.3 billion acquisition of Plaid has created excitement in the fintech community and some believe this is only the...
Visa notified WaveCrest that they were terminating their membership with the company for non compliance; WaveCrest is a third party processor where prepaid cards were being used for crypto based activities; the terms and conditions of their agreement with Visa stated that funds could only be loaded to the card via an employer on a regular basis; the termination note leaves a number of companies in limbo and looking for another option to service customers. Source.