December, 2024

December, 2024

Merchants Payments Coalition Urges Fed to Finalize Interchange Fee Proposal
The Merchants Payments Coalition is urging the Federal Reserve to quickly finalize the Fed’s proposal to reduce the fees banks are allowed to charge merchants to process debit card transactions. The...

What Was Crypto’s Biggest 2024 Story? Hint: It Wasn’t Named Elon
For once in its recent history, the cryptocurrency sector is likely ending the year on a high. Bitcoin, despite dropping below the $100,000 mark as of reporting, is up over 110% for the year having hi...

Visa: 77% of 2024 Holiday Spending Happened In-Store
Visa said it is seeing increasing consumer confidence this holiday season. The payments giant released preliminary insights into U.S. holiday buying that showed a 4.8% uptick in spending, a figure not...

Klarna to Become a Default Payment Method for WooPayments Merchants
Klarna will be offered as a default payment method to merchants using the WooPayments solution offered by eCommerce platform WooCommerce. Klarna is currently offered only as an alternative payment opt...

Crypto.com Debuts Sports Event Trading Product
Crypto.com has introduced what it calls the first-ever sports event trading product. The new offering, dubbed “Sports” and announced Monday (Dec. 23) in an email to PYMNTS, lets American users of ...

Pre-Purchase Testing and Flexible Payments: Shaping the Future of Retail Transactions
As consumers rely more on online shopping, the importance of optimizing the payment process has never been more evident. With peak shopping periods like the holidays driving even higher consumer deman...

MessagePay and AKUVO to Infuse Collections with Latest Payment Technology
MessagePay announced its integration into AKUVO’s Virtual Collector, a key component of the company’s collections platform. AKUVO’s Virtual Collector is designed to empower borrowers to manage t...

President Elect Donald Trump Announces Tech Team for White House AI, Crypto Czar
President-Elect Donald Trump has announced the team that will be leading the tech charge including crypto and Artificial Intelligence (AI). During the Biden Administration, both digital assets and AI ...

CFPB Targets Rocket Mortgage for Alleged Kickbacks
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has filed a lawsuit against Rocket Homes claiming kickbacks for real estate brokers and agents who steered customers to use the platform for mortgages. ...

SEC Orders Tai Mo Shan to Pay $123 Million for “Negligently Misleading” Investors About Stability of Terra USD
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently charged Tai Mo Shan Limited with misleading investors about the stability of Terra USD (UST), a purported “algorithmic stablecoin” issued b...

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