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  • Officials and employees celebrate the grand opening of Fiserv's Berkeley Heights, New Jersey office on Nov. 15.
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    Fiserv discloses 7% drop in workforce

    As the company cut 3,000 employees, Fiserv’s employee termination costs nearly doubled to $187 million in 2022.

  • An employee uses Square point of sale hardware
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    Square raises prices

    The price increases come as Block’s merchant business faces stiffer competition in the point-of-sale software market.

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    Mastercard embraces nationalism

    The card company isn’t shying away from countries in which the governments are taking a more insular approach to building their payments systems.

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    Shift4 adds PayPal’s checkout tools

    Shift4 will promote the digital payments giant’s checkout capabilities to merchants and receive a share of revenue for any PayPal checkout.

  • Supreme Court Allows Texas Six Week Abortion Ban To Stand
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    CFPB’s fate at stake in Supreme Court case

    The high court’s decision could set a precedent for future actions, challenging everything the CFPB has done, said Scott Pearson, a partner in Manatt's consumer financial services practice.

  • Three iPhones grouped together. On the left is products of shoes, the middle shows a woman putting on lip liner, and the right shows a screen full of data insights.
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    Klarna’s growth comes at a cost

    The buy now, pay later pioneer kept up growth despite employee cuts last year. The credit loss rate edged up too.

  • Sezzle ekes out a profit

    The buy now, pay later company has cut costs by winding down operations in some markets, renegotiating prices with merchants and tightening underwriting.

  • Close shot of the U.S. Capitol dome against the bright blue sky.
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    Battle over expected Durbin bill ensues

    A credit union trade group railed against expected credit card processing legislation aimed at Visa and Mastercard before a bill has even been introduced in Congress this year.

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    Transparency key to crypto’s next phase: Circle CFO

    USDC issuer Circle is moving to become a public company, its CFO said, even as regulatory attention on the space sharpens.

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    Remitly to shutter digital banking platform Passbook

    The Seattle-based remittance fintech launched Passbook in 2020. The product, however, hasn’t garnered significant overlap with existing customers, Remitly CEO Matt Oppenheimer said.

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    Paymentus bets on office return boost

    New business bookings and onboarding of signed clients have both picked up steam as workers return to offices, said Paymentus CEO Dushyant Sharma.

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    Block boosts Ahuja’s responsibilities

    Pledging to be more efficient with a revamp of the company’s leadership structure, Block has combined the CFO and COO roles under Amrita Ahuja.

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    Green Dot juggles customer changes

    The banking-as-a-service company posted profits in the final quarter of last year even as it recovered from the loss of clients.

  • GoDaddy banner hangs outside of the New York Stock Exchange
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    GoDaddy launches payable domain service

    GoDaddy now offers its business owner clients a digital payment tool that is customizable to their company branding.

  • The Federal Reserve building is seen January 22, 2008 in Washington, DC.
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    FedNow aims to avoid Zelle-type fraud

    As the Federal Reserve prepares for a mid-year launch of its instant payments system, FedNow, it’s zeroing in on anti-fraud tools to protect users.

  • Discover Financial CEO Roger Hochschild
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    Discover debit reboot gets marketing assist

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

  • A person uses Square point of sale hardware
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    Square chases bigger merchants

    Block-owned Square made its name catering to owners of small businesses, but the company is now setting its sights on bigger clients for growth.

  • 100 dollar bills with green streaks spiraling around them and 0s and 1s in the background
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    Same-day, B2B payments fuel ACH growth

    Last year’s same-day ACH limit increase helped nearly double that category’s total payment compared to 2021, Nacha said.

  • A$AP Rocky and Klarna team up for global campaign
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    Klarna touts US as largest market

    The Swedish buy now, pay later provider aims to keep growing in the U.S. with new services despite the intense competition.

  • Entrance to CFPB building
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    CFPB warns card issuers on credit reports

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has threatened action over card issuers not reporting full consumer payment data for tracking credit histories.

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    Discover launches tech website

    The card company joined the Linux Foundation and Fintech Open Source Foundation as part of a broader investment into its developer ecosphere.

  • Window with sticker showing logos for Visa, Mastercard and American Express.
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    Credit card debt surpasses pre-pandemic levels: Fed

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

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    Branch draws Uber, others into fold

    After landing Uber as a client, the worker payment services company has recently attracted other logistics and delivery clients with help from that big name.

  • Rifle on counter at gun store with hands of two people showing an apparent transaction.
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    Discover to implement gun code in April: report

    The newly published code will be part of Discover’s policy and product update for merchants and payment partners in April, a spokesperson told Reuters.

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    Visa CFO to exit

    Vasant Prabhu, the company’s chief financial officer since 2015, will leave Visa in September, the company said Thursday.