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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Credit card processing can be overwhelming, expensive, and confusing. And yet, accepting non-cash forms of payments is more or less required to operate a modern business, at least in the U.S. Credit, debit, and digital payments have far and away become the most popular payment method. merchant’s) bank.

Credit Cards

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MAY 6, 2025

Acquiring bank This is the merchant bank that allows the business to receive money from card transactions and store these funds. The issuing bank This is the cardholders bank or the financial institution that issued their credit or debit card. Think: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover.

Credit Cards

Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 24, 2025

This constantly updated article tracks the biggest and most important new products released worldwide by financial technology companies, along with banks, credit unions, investment advisors, insurance companies, credit card issuers and payment providers. Weve been obsessed with new fintech products since before the term was invented.

Product

PayHawk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Have you ever wished you could make your payment process as smooth as a glass of sweet tea on a hot Georgia day? It’s time to take a sip from the fountain of convenience with mobile payment processing ! Say goodbye to those clunky cash registers and hello to the future of payments. Well, guess what?

Mobile Payment Processing

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

And when that happens, non-compliance can lead to many degrees of harm to any and all business owners. It gets worse: merchants that use a non-PCI certified provider can face class action lawsuits, fines of up to $10,000 per month, and $500,000 per incident. As such, they’re typically the ones that are scrutinized the most.

Credit Cards

FICO

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Seeing the flutter of sawbucks gave me a flashback to one of my first payments memories, from the early 1980s, when the Connecticut Bank and Trust Co. Mobile Payments Proliferate. Peer-to-peer payments made with PayPal’s Venmo app more than doubled to $8 billion, year over year.

Mobile Payments