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PULSE Network: Pandemic Creates Tailwinds For Debit Card Spending

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There’s also the safety of using debit in contactless payments, he said, where issuers had, fortuitously from a timing perspective, accelerated their issuance of contactless cards coming into 2020 and before the age of COVID-19.

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SMBs On Payment Technology: What’s In It For Me?

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Conducted in January 2016, this quarter’s Index finds that almost half (49 percent) of businesses that said they do not yet accept EMV chip cards also have no plans to accept them in the future. The Index looks at business and technology trends impacting U.S. small and medium businesses.