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Prepaid

Swift Prepaid Solutions to Become daVinci Payments

by Sue Brown

August 2, 2019

Swift Prepaid Solutions has announced it will be changing its name to daVinci Payments, per the company's press release: The...

Credit

Capital One Credit Card Breach: Tip of the Iceberg?

by Brian Riley

August 1, 2019

Where there is smoke, there is fire. Today’s WSJ poses a scary question for the credit card industry. Is Capital...

Faster Payments

Fed Chairman Signals Interest in Building a U.S. Faster Payment System

by Sarah Grotta

August 1, 2019

In the ongoing will-they-or-won’t-they saga surrounding the Federal Reserve’s development of a real time payments platform, Chairman Jerome Powell sent...

Credit

Credit Cards and Interest Rate Cuts: It Sounds Good but Do Not Get Excited

by Brian Riley

August 1, 2019

The Wall Street Journal reported the Federal Reserve Bank’s announcement about a benchmark interest rate decrease. This provides a feel-good...

Banking

A Checking/Savings Combination That’s Worth Making the Change – But Know the Rules

by Sue Brown

July 31, 2019

Green Dot just announced that it was launching the Unlimited Cash Back Bank Account: With what is believed to be...

Security

Capital One Hack Did Not Expose Corporate Card Info

by Steve Murphy

July 31, 2019

A data breach can have serious financial and personal consequences. The credit card data of hundreds, if not thousands, of...

Mergers and Acquisitions

Bank of America and First Data To Unwind Joint Venture

by Raymond Pucci

July 30, 2019

Breaking up is hard to do—and it does take some time. As first reported by the Wall Street Journal this...

Biometrics

Putting Aside Ethics, Aren’t We Relying Too Heavily on Facial Recognition?

by Tim Sloane

July 30, 2019

This article on the website BiometricUpdate identifies many novel applications for facial recognition, including tracking shoppers, paying subway fares, multiple surveillance...