Banking: Page 9


  • Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller sits on a chair on stage.
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    Private sector merits ‘significant’ payments footprint, Waller says

    The Federal Reserve must consider when to make up for private sector shortcomings in payments, while keeping its role limited, board member Christopher Waller said Tuesday.

    By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Nov. 13, 2024
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    Young people fall prey to payments fraudsters

    Debit and credit card users under 40 years old are more likely than older peers to experience fraud in making payments, a recent J.D. Power survey found.

    By Nov. 12, 2024
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    Trendline

    Cross-border payments targeted for upgrades

    When it comes to cross-border payments, businesses, non-profits and governments alike are determined to increase the speed of transactions and cut the cost.

    By Payments Dive staff
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    Will Shift4 scoop up Lightspeed?

    The acquisitive payments company could be a good fit with the Canadian point-of-sale technology provider, analysts said Monday.

    By Nov. 11, 2024
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    Q&A

    Open banking to move toward FDX standard

    Industry collaboration on open banking is likely to move forward, with or without the CFPB’s recent final 1033 rule, one Jack Henry executive said.

    By Nov. 11, 2024
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    Visa pinpoints rising fraud threats

    In a new report, the card network detailed cyber schemes and scams that have led it to invest $11 billion over the past five years in improving its systems.

    By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Nov. 10, 2024
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    Afterpay to arrive on 24M Cash App cards

    The digital payment company’s leader, Jack Dorsey, aims to create lending services that will appeal to millions of U.S. adults who haven’t had access to other forms of credit.

    By Patrick Cooley • Nov. 8, 2024
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    Remitly, Payoneer cross-border payments climb

    Payments volume soared for the money transfer fintechs during the third quarter. Meanwhile, revenue at legacy rival Western Union slipped.

    By Nov. 8, 2024
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    How Trump’s administration may rework payments policies

    The president-elect and his new administration will have the opportunity to revamp federal government approaches for everything from earned wage access to digital currencies to open banking.

    By Lynne Marek and Patrick Cooley • Nov. 7, 2024
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    Paze gets new leader amid slow start

    Early Warning Services, the bank-owned company that operates Paze, tapped a new leader last month for the digital wallet operation after slow progress in launching the new service. 

    By Nov. 7, 2024
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    FTC sues fintech Dave over marketing, fees

    The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint Tuesday alleging the fintech rarely disbursed the advertised loan amount and charged consumers a “tip” without giving them the ability to opt out of it.

    By Rajashree Chakravarty • Nov. 7, 2024
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    Cross River drops lawsuit against Fiserv unit

    The Fort Lee, New Jersey-based lender dismissed a lawsuit that it had filed against First Data Merchant Services last year. 

    By Rajashree Chakravarty • Nov. 7, 2024
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    Q&A

    Fiserv exec opens up on Walmart, DoorDash partnerships

    Sunil Sachdev, Fiserv’s head of embedded finance, shed light on his company’s latest high-profile collaborations.

    By Nov. 6, 2024
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    Opinion

    DOJ’s Visa suit is unfounded

    The government acknowledges payment volumes are rising, in part because of fintech growth. This competition wouldn’t be happening if a single entity, like Visa, controlled the ecosystem.

    By Aurelien Portuese • Nov. 5, 2024
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    Fed aims to make instant payments the norm

    “It's going to be up to us to move instant payments from being novel to being normal,” Federal Reserve Financial Services’ chief payments executive told attendees at a major industry conference.

    By Lynne Marek and Patrick Cooley • Nov. 5, 2024
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    Mastercard gains edge in ancillary services

    The card network is besting its larger rival Visa in the sale of cybersecurity and data services, at least according to one set of analysts who reviewed their recent results.

    By Nov. 5, 2024
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    DOJ’s Visa lawsuit could affect Capital One-Discover review

    If the Justice Department were to block the Capital One-Discover deal while also going after Visa, “they’d be intellectually inconsistent,” a George Mason University law professor said.

    By Caitlin Mullen • Nov. 5, 2024
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    Fiserv, Capital One, others invest $150M in Melio

    Some of the corporate investors are also partnering with the accounts payable and receivable company they’re backing.

    By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Nov. 4, 2024
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    Opinion

    Is the FTC targeting chargeback service providers?

    “For better or for worse, applying pressure to payments organizations to ferret out bad-merchant actors seems to be an effective way for the FTC to make private industry police the merchant marketplace,” writes an industry lawyer.

    By Edward A. Marshall • Nov. 1, 2024
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    5 payments predictions from research firm Forrester

    Cash use worldwide will drop significantly next year, despite its U.S. persistence, the research firm Forrester predicts. Meanwhile, business-to-business acquisitions in the payments realm will pick up.

    By Tatiana Walk-Morris and Lynne Marek • Nov. 1, 2024
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    BofA discloses CFPB probe of Zelle payments

    Bank of America is responding to a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau inquiry related to the bank’s processing of electronic payments through Zelle, the lender disclosed in a regulatory filing.

    By Caitlin Mullen • Oct. 30, 2024
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    Visa CEO stands fast against DOJ

    Visa CEO Ryan McInerney took a defiant stance Tuesday regarding the Justice Department’s lawsuit against the card network company.

    By Oct. 30, 2024
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    MoneyGram cites cash-to-digital conversion opportunity

    A MoneyGram executive speaking at the Money 20/20 conference cooed about the trillion-dollar opportunity to lure cash users to digital options, but didn’t mention the company’s recent systemwide outage.

    By Lynne Marek and Patrick Cooley • Oct. 30, 2024
  • Fiserv CEO Frank Bisignano
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    Fiserv CEO dishes on making mergers work

    In addition to pulling back the curtain on integrating Fiserv acquisitions, Frank Bisignano offered predictions on plastic cards and AI at a conference Monday.

    By Oct. 30, 2024
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    MoneyGram replaces CEO, naming former Walmart executive to the role

    The money transfer company named the new CEO just weeks after a cyberattack led to a systemwide shutdown of its services for several days.

    By Oct. 29, 2024
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    How open banking will shape the future of payments

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released its final open banking rule this month, leading the payments and financial services industries to begin preparing for a new era in data-sharing.

    By Patrick Cooley • Oct. 29, 2024