Payments

The Electronic Payments Coalition said that Sens. Dick Durbin and Roger Marshall are retaliating against the airline industry, which has been critical of their credit-card swipe-fee legislation. The two senators have called for an investigation of airlines in connection with purportedly unfair practices in their loyalty programs.

As the holiday shopping season approaches, late payments on credit cards have surpassed their pre-pandemic levels, according to a new VantageScore report. The consumers showing signs of deterioration include not only subprime borrowers, but also those with prime credit scores.

The product-comparison site, which rates and ranks credit cards, is debuting its own secured credit card that it believes will help users improve their credit scores and pursue better offers.

By purchasing the merchant acquirer Atlantic-Pacific Processing Systems, the fintech Stax has rounded out its offerings in a way that echoes the structure of larger payment companies.

The U.K. government confirmed plans to regulate cryptoasset activities more strictly, bringing them under the same regime as traditional financial services.

The credit card company has been seeing late payments and charge-offs jump following the stellar credit trends of the pandemic. But there were signs last quarter that the picture has started to stabilize.

The Federal Reserve's vice chair for supervision said FedNow and digital currencies are important areas for research, but not at the expense of legacy systems like cash and debit.

JP Morgan Chase and Carver Federal Savings are applying fast-acting security tools more broadly — regardless of how fast the transaction is.

Britons are pulling more and more cash from bank accounts that don't pay enough interest. It's beginning to hit the U.K.'s biggest lenders where it hurts.

Intensifying economic pressures caused Bread Financial's customers to cut their credit card spending by 13% during the third quarter as the rate of delinquent accounts rose.

As the government weighs changes to interchange, Michael Miebach voiced his displeasure during the company's earnings call.

There are three concrete steps policymakers and industry can pursue that will limit the damage that is being done by cutting vulnerable populations off from remittance payments.

Taylor Swift's tie-up with the third-largest bank in Singapore propelled the lender's credit card fees to a record in the third quarter, the latest example of the pop star's extraordinary economic heft.

A selloff of the French company's shares sparked similar issues at other publicly traded payments firms in Europe. The question is whether the underlying issues — inflation and fears of recession — are severe enough to drag down American companies as well.

The change would lower the maximum fee on a $50 debit transaction from 24.5 cents to 17.7 cents. The central bank points to lower processing costs for card issuers in recent years.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is examining how it can use generative artificial intelligence to simulate customers testing products, and U.S. Bancorp's Elavon unit receives a financial services license from the Bank of England.

Giving merchants the option of passing on the rewards-related element of credit card swipe fees to consumers would radically rewrite the rules of payments competition.

A Federal Reserve rule that kicked in during July altering how debit cards are routed online hasn't yet hurt Visa's U.S. transaction volume, which surged across consumer, commercial and cross-border channels during the quarter that ended Sept. 30.

The credit-card issuer is tightening its lending standards and bracing for the potential effects of a cap on card late fees. Charge-offs are rising, but company executives say that customers are showing surprising strength.

The bipartisan proposal aims to save consumers money by forcing more competition in the lucrative credit card payments processing business. If enacted, it would result in "unbelievable" consumer backlash from its effect on rewards programs, Delta Chief Executive Officer Ed Bastian said.