Cards

PSCU will provide processing and support services for 55 Corporate One CUs, representing nearly 100,000 cards and accounts.

Prepaid payroll companies are delivering new functionality and processes that enhance cardholder experience, writes Tal Clark, senior vice president and head of Money Network at First Data.

U.S. retailers have been shutting stores at a record pace as shoppers opt to make more purchases online.

Other digital payment companies have not had success with plastic cards. But the lack of expense and potential adoption create an opportunity for Square and Venmo.

How two CUs of differing asset sizes brought card processing in-house to boost efficiencies and reduce costs.

Curve argues that as the number of cards in its app increases, the chances of choosing a wrong card for a payment become greater.

Square has long been considered at the vanguard of digital payment innovation, so it may be a little unexpected to see the company take a step backward into physical card issuance.

Greenlight Financial Technology offers a card that enables parents to control where their kids spend money.

The card network is additionally providing new and experimental application programming interfaces with its latest release.

Before smartphones and digital wallets, a Georgia bank in the '90s partnered with a calling card provider to expand customer relationships and drive noninterest income.

As the U.S. chip card migration crawls ahead, companies that have not made the switch are at a particularly high risk for fraud.

The partnership is designed to serve the increasing numbers of tourists visiting Sri Lanka from India, providing payment card options that have local ATM support.

A suit alleges former inmates in Arizona's state prison system were charged $15 fee for teller-assisted transactions, compared with other customers who were charged nothing.

U.S. banks and credit unions face a tricky calculus in deciding whether to adopt expensive technology aimed at reducing online fraud.

U.S. banks face a tricky calculus in deciding whether to adopt expensive technology aimed at reducing online fraud.

Until now, Amazon's moves seemed like cautious pokes at the deeply ingrained habit of going to a store and paying with a plastic card. Furthermore, any competitors may have seen Amazon's lacking retail store presence as a buffer that kept them at least temporarily safe from the same fate that befell the bookselling world. How naive they were.

Amazon is working aggressively to change the way people shop — especially in the grocery space — but not all of its activities focus on products and store design. The e-commerce giant has also influenced a lot about how people use their payment cards.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed further changes Thursday to its final rule on prepaid cards and is seeking public comment on whether to delay implementing it a second time.

There are signs the economic cycle is at its peak, which could hurt card portfolios going forward. Improved security could help, writes Madeline Aufseeser, CEO of Tender Armor.

A deeper dive into the workings of the Amazon Prime Reload program should give the card payments industry serious cause for concern.