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Plaid, the San Francisco-based financial technology infrastructure provider, has received strategic investments from Mastercard and Visa as part of a $250 million round of funding. Plaid did not disclose the two networks' specific investments.

The Democratic presidential candidate said on Twitter that credit cards "have enabled many of America’s mass shootings."

The large payment processor mergers were meant to give bigger companies a better way to compete against the nimble startups that were luring their customers away for digital services such as mobile point of sale. And post-merger, Fiserv and First Data have fired their first salvo.

MoneyGram has partnered with Visa to leverage debit push payments for P2P transfers in the U.S., with plans to eventually expand the service internationally.

U.S. counterfeit card losses have plummeted in the past four years, a signal the challenging EMV migration has made a dent.

Visa and Mastercard have both shortened the time windows for responding to dispute events, forcing issuers, acquirers, and their processors to align with new time window rules while adapting to changes in dispute lifecycles, says BHMI's Lynne Baldwin.

BBVA Peru is the first bank to deploy a real-time mobile payments platform designed by YellowPepper, following Visa’s May 2018 investment in the Miami-based fintech.

Visa is offering four new security tools to assist merchants, acquirers and card issuers by disrupting fraud in real time.

Developers have expanded availability of digital identity and biometrics, but traditional methods are holding strong as most companies still rely on usernames and passwords.

The biggest U.S. banks used to own Visa. Now if only they could keep up with it.