Cards

John Adams, Executive Editor at PaymentsSource, talks to Debbie Gamble, chief officer of Innovation Labs and New Ventures at Interac, about Canada's growing digital needs.

Fake fundraising or phony customer service tricks people into handing over money or account details, Yinglian Xie of Datavisor writes.

U.K. and EU regulations enable cards that provide digital-first features for funds kept in a different bank's account.

A Federal Reserve proposal that would require banks to give merchants more choices in routing certain debit transactions could be a prelude to a more consequential change: a lower cap on interchange fees for banks with more than $10 billion of assets.

Despite strong payment volume and revenue, Affirm's earnings suffered due to stock compensation and an adjustment on its purchase of PayBright in January.

The central bank wants to adopt new rules to state clearly that merchants must have a choice of debit networks for card-not-present transactions.

Western Union, the world’s largest money-transfer provider, will soon test banking products for its customers.

The "as a service" model cuts costs and streamlines deployment of new card programs and technology, says Zeta's Bhavin Turakhia.

Widespread card acceptance was key to keeping small businesses afloat during the pandemic and will be crucial to helping consumers and businesses get the economy booming again, says the National Taxpayers Union's Thomas Aiello.

Shopkeepers and other establishments say banks' costs have fallen substantially in recent years but interchange prices have held steady since the Federal Reserve capped them in 2010.