Finextra

JULY 3, 2025

It simply facilitates transactions by linking to your customers existing financial instruments, like bank accounts or credit/debit cards. Users can: Store card credentials securely Authenticate with biometrics Make fast, online, and contactless payments Access loyalty points, tickets, or IDs You’re not managing funds.

eWallet

The Payments Association

MARCH 19, 2025

According to Yaccarino, the partnership will allow for secure and instant funding to users X Wallet via Visa Direct, connecting to their debit cards and allowing for peer-to-peer payments. For example, Goldman Sachs partnered with Apple for the Apple Card and savings account offering in 2019.

Digital Payments

Stax

JANUARY 28, 2025

Once customers sign up with any of the major card networks, they only need to tap the Click to Pay button on the websites of online retailers and service providers to make payments. Then, you can now integrate the new payment system into your existing digital infrastructure.

Payment APIs and Integration

The Fintech Times

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Appointments Sibstar, the UK debit card and app for people living with dementia, has appointed GoHenry co-founder and CEO, Louise Hill, as a non-executive director. Most recently Neil was a trader at Triland Metals and he rejoins Britannia having been at the firm between 2019 and 2023 as a base metals sales trader.

FinTech

Payments Dive

JUNE 11, 2025

Prior to Shopify starting its own BNPL product, Sezzle said the total value of its transactions on Shopify stores rose 1200% from January 2019 to June 2021, with the number of Shopify merchants using Sezzle tripling. By Lynne Marek • Aug.

BNPL

Finextra

JULY 13, 2025

Early on, Monzo launched Alpha and Beta prepaid debit cards to test the waters, rapidly gaining a waitlist of enthusiastic early adopters. By 2019, Monzo was solidifying its position as a mainstream player. Everything still “starts with our personal current account,” as Monzo likes to say.

Payment APIs and Integration

The Fintech Times

MARCH 27, 2025

In 2019, we pivoted to focus on helping millions of businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit and business management tools, trusted by millions of businesses. Tell us about Moniepoint’s story to date Felix Ike , co-founder and CTO of Moniepoint Tosin Eniolorunda and I initially co-founded Moniepoint Inc.

FinTech

PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

Samsung Pay is launching a physical debit card and this summer will introduce a money management tool in partnership with SoFi. By early 2019, Samsung Pay’s international presence grew to six global regions. By year-end 2019, it expanded into several new countries. .

Debit Card

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

antitrust regulators are investigating Visa and Mastercard about their debit card policies, Bloomberg reported on Thursday (Nov. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is talking to large merchants to discover if some retailers are being blocked from routing digital payments over alternative debit networks, sources told Bloomberg.

Debit Card

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, PayPal and Mastercard are adding more European Union (EU) countries to a debit card offering, while European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde has called for a digital euro. PayPal, Mastercard Add 5 EU Countries To Debit Card Offering.

Debit Card

PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2019

According to an early 2019 study from 70 percent of U.S. but my wife and I weren’t carrying cash as frequently as we used to because we were making all of our purchases with our debit cards and credit cards. ,” Sheehan said. Allowances are a surprisingly big business in the United States.

Debit Card

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

percent increase from the share who did so in 2019. percent decrease in the share of consumers that made their Black Friday purchases at a physical store in 2019 and a 41.4 More consumers used debit cards and PayPal to shop on Black Friday this year. percent of Black Friday eCommerce shoppers who paid via credit card.

Debit Card

PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2020

Credit union service organization (CUSO) PSCU compared the 19 th week of 2020, which concluded on May 10, to the same timeframe in 2019 to discover the impact of the pandemic on consumer spending and shopping trends. The average debit card purchase amount rose 19.9 percent jump in debit card spend for the week ending May 10.

Debit Card

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2018

But in hopes of hopping on the holiday bandwagon — and providing data-backed insight in the hottest payment trends for 2019 — allow us to offer this list of a dozen ways that consumers (and some businesses) are paying now, methods that promise to play big roles in 2019. 6: With Person-To-Person Mobile Tech.

Consumer

PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2019

Here’s a 2019 prediction that we guarantee will come true: There will be no human being or business adamantly hoping to be paid slower in 2019 than they were in 2018. We also guarantee that this prediction will hold, regardless of who one is talking about or the use case to which it pertains.

Instant Payments

FICO

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As many of us who have long been in the industry know, fraud remains a top challenge for debit cards. In 2019 issuers faced $4.2 billion in gross (attempted) debit card fraud and ultimately incurred losses of over $1 billion on debit and ATM transactions; the need for an effective solution to this problem has never been greater.

Debit Card

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In today’s top news in digital-first banking, BlockCard is teaming with peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin marketplace Paxful for a new crypto debit card, while the Federal Reserve Board has modified the terms of its Main Street Lending Program (MSLP). Ternio’s BlockCard Teams With P2P Bitcoin Marketplace Paxful for Crypto Debit Card.

Debit Card

PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

50 crores (about $7 million) will have to offer customers electronic payment modes like debit cards, powered by RuPay, according to a report by LiveMint. . The finance ministry in India passed a new regulation saying that companies with sales of more than ?50 The new regulation went into effect on Jan.

Debit Card

PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

million) in 2019 — up from £32.9 While we still have some way to go, we are pleased with our progress in 2019,” Revolut Founder and CEO Nik Storonsky said in the CNBC report. “We Founded in 2015, Revolut began by offering prepaid debit cards that allowed users to avoid foreign exchange fees while traveling abroad.

FinTech

PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

The consumers who shopped for anything from groceries to sporting goods to cars in December of 2019 are completely different from the ones who shop today. PYMNTS' study showed that 52 percent and 45 percent want to register their credit and debit cards with the apps they use to power their connected experiences, respectively.

Consumer

PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

As a result, exchanges, and those who help them, will probably need to authenticate user identities and follow other digital asset procedures that FATF put forward in 2019. In other news, blockchain company Binance has acquired digital wallet and Visa debit card platform Swipe, according to an announcement.

Debit Card

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Bloomberg noted that although the private-label credit card market has grown to $191 billion, Wells Fargo still lags behind major players such as Synchrony Financial, Citigroup and Capital One Financial. A recent Nilson report estimated Wells Fargo’s share of private-label card spending at 5.75 Debit card POS purchase volume hit $102.9

Credit Cards

Fintech Finance

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Visa Direct is addressing this through partnerships with social media networks and marketplaces to help creators get payouts in real-time[2] to their eligible debit card. Pharrell founded YELLOW, a non-profit that evens the odds for youth through education in 2019. Visa helps make it easy to access the digital economy.

Small Business

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Amazon's Flex Rewards program lists incentives, including up to 6 percent cash back on fuel purchases; 2 percent cash back on Amazon.com and Whole Foods Market purchases; 1 percent cash back on purchases made with an Amazon Flex debit card; and the ability to reserve preferred time blocks for scheduling. billion packages that year.

Debit Card

NFCW

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Swiss central bank’s researchers based their analysis on anonymized, transaction-level data for a large sample of point-of-sale debit card payments made in Switzerland between 2019 and 2021. “In Switzerland – the country we study – the tap-and-go limit was doubled from CHF40 to CHF80 in April 2020.

Contactless Payments

PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

This payment rail’s use is going strong in the United States, with debit card penetration reaching 78 percent in 2018. Consumers also show continued interest in debit even as they adopt newer payment instruments, and a 2019 report found that 61 percent of mobile wallet users linked debit cards.

Debit Card

Fintech News

MARCH 6, 2024

Minna Bank provides various services such as current and savings accounts, cash withdrawals and deposits via smartphone, a virtual debit card and account-to-account transfer. It also offers various financial services such as debit cards, investment trusts, FX, and neo-bank services.

Online and Mobile Banking

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

When the chips are down, consumers love and trust their debit cards. Among clear COVID-era trends is the embrace of debit for managing and mastering new realities. Debit cards remain the payment method of choice among U.S. Debit cards remain the payment method of choice among U.S.

Consumer

PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2021

In 2019, criminal activity constituted 2.1 LVL, an upstart bitcoin exchange, has rolled out its own Mastercard debit card which it's taking pre-orders for, a report from CoinDesk says. The card represents some of LVL's goals to bring traditional banking services together with crypto for regular consumers.

Crime

PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2019

The spotlight burned brighter for peer-to-peer (P2P) payment services in the first quarter of 2019, with those payment methods finding popularity among more consumers. During Q1 2019, Zelle sent $39 billion through its network via 147 million transactions, the company said in a news release. P2P Marketing. P2P Impacts.

P2P

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Chime, which CEO Chris Britt co-founded in 2013, provides clients mobile banking accounts without charges, debit cards and automated teller machine (ATM) access. Chime primarily makes money as clients use their cards in comparison to typical financial institutions that make money on fines and debt. “If

Mobile Banking

PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Global payments firm MoneyGram is advancing its Visa debit card deposit service across Europe in a partnership with Checkout.com and continued collaboration with Visa’s real-time push payments platform Visa Direct. In 2019, MoneyGram was the first company in the industry to enable cross-border transfers from the U.S.

P2P

PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

Credit union service organization (CUSO) PSCU compared the week ending April 19, 2020, to the same time frame in 2019 to discover what impact the coronavirus is having on consumer spending and shopping trends. People spent more money on consumer goods, with a 20 percent increase in debit card transactions. percent, PSCU noted.

Debit Card

Fintech News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This collaboration integrates Worldpay’s Visa and Mastercard payment systems into Alchemy Pay ‘s platform, aiming to streamline the process of buying and selling cryptocurrencies using credit and debit cards.

Credit Cards

Fintech News

MARCH 5, 2024

This deal expands upon previous collaborations between the two financial services giants in 2019 and 2022, which made it possible for customers in the U.S. The companies also plan to issue Western Union/Visa Debit Cards across North America, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Europe.

Cross-Border

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

That potential arrangement stems from a class action suit that contended that that “Visa and Mastercard, separately, and together with certain banks, violated antitrust laws and caused merchants to pay excessive fees for accepting Visa and Mastercard credit and debit cards” per the notice. 1, 2004 and Jan.

Settlement

PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

In a press release on Thursday (April 4), Bento announced its collaboration with Visa to integrate Visa’s business debit card into the Bento for Business platform. Small and medium-sized business spend management firm Bento for Business is teaming up with Visa to enhance cash flow management for SMB customers.

Small Business