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US DOJ blocks Visa’s $5.3 billion acquisition of fintech Plaid [Updated]

DOJ blocks Visa acquisition of Plaid.
Banking Fintech
Editor’s note: Late yesterday Visa issued the following statement in response to the US DOJ lawsuit: “Visa strongly disagrees with the Department of Justice (DOJ), whose attempt to ...
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Home Depot Canada scrambles to quickly repair customer data breach

Home Depot Canada data breach
Cybersecurity
By Jeff Domansky, Oct 30, 2020 Another day, another serious data breach! This time it’s Home Depot Canada that appears to have mistakenly emailed an undetermined number of ...
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Are voice payments ready to find their voice?

voice payments are growing more popular
Banking Mobile Payments Payments Trends
By Jeff Domansky, Oct 29, 2020 New developments and improvements in voice technology are already driving customer service, bot automation, and even investments in the banking and payments ...
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Ant Group’s record $34 billion IPO will be world’s largest [Update: suspended by regulators]

Ant Group’s $34 billion IPO
Banking Mobile Payments Payments Trends
By Jeff Domansky, October 27, 2020 Editor’s update: CNBC reported today (Nov 3) that “Ant Group’s controller Jack Ma, executive chairman Eric Jing and CEO Simon Hu were ...
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Oct 26 Global payments news roundup: Ant Fin’l, Stripe, JPMorgan, Visa, Wirecard, PayPal, more…

global payments news roundup
Banking Fintech Payments Technology
As the biggest shopping season of the year approaches in the US and around the world, it’s also a hectic time for payments industry news. We’ve got another ...
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42% skipped a bill payment during the US pandemic

missed bill payments growing due to COVID-19
Payments Research Payments Trends
In the first seven months of the pandemic, more than half of American consumers (57%) have unfortunately seen a reduction in their income, and 42% have missed at ...
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Visa launches Tap to Phone mobile payments in 15 markets

Visa Tap to Phone
Banking Mobile Payments Payments Technology
After a year of development and testing, Visa rolled out its new Tap to Pay mobile payment app that will let micro-merchants and sellers worldwide quickly and securely ...
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Q3 ACH payments volume grew 9% in US

Q3 2020 ACH Network volume grew 9%
Banking Payments Trends
Nacha’s US Automated Clearing House Network (ACH) report for electronic funds transfers in the third quarter of 2020 showed exceptionally strong growth in volume and value despite the ...
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