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Fed to review debit card fee cap next week

Payments Dive

The Fed hasn’t changed a debit card fee cap since it was put in place in 2011, but it's planning to take up the issue at a meeting next week.

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The Data is Clear: The Durbin-Marshall Credit Card Bill Will Harm Small Businesses

Electronic Payments Coalition

Since Congress introduced price caps and routing mandates on debit cards in 2011, research from independent and government sources has illuminated their disproportionate negative impact on small businesses.

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Payday Lending: An Unnecessary Burden on Military Service Members

The Fintech Times

I saw the effects of payday lending first hand when I was in the Army from 2006 to 2011. For decades, these entities have locked service members into predatory lending arrangements, wreaking havoc on their credit scores, and personal and professional lives. However, the MLA does not go far enough.

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US Bank Pays Justice Department $613M For Money Laundering Settlement

PYMNTS

Since 2011, FinCEN claimed U.S. Bank chose to manipulate their software to cap the number of suspicious activity alerts rather than to increase capacity to comply with anti-money laundering laws,” said FinCEN Director Kenneth A. Bank to the U.S. Blanco in the press release. FinCEN, the OCC and the DOJ contend that U.S.

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GoodRx Goes Public As IPO Shares Sell Above Target

PYMNTS

In its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Santa Monica, California-based startup said its selling price would be in the $24-$28 per share range, but raising it to $33 per share gave it an initial market cap of around $12.7 Founded in 2011, GoodRx gathers drug prices on more than 70,000 U.S.

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Rich Communication Services (RCS): The Next-Gen Messaging Tech Reinventing Brand Communications

CB Insights

market cap, or Kik ‘s $1B valuation as of 2015. Even smaller players like GroupMe (a cquired by Skype for $85M in 2011) have built successful products in the absence of a universal messaging system. But in this sea of messaging apps, SMS still reigns supreme.

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Groupon’s CFO Resigns To Pursue Other Opportunity

PYMNTS

The company went public in 2011 and was once valued at $16.5 There are no order minimums or savings caps when using the program. Thomas, who joined Groupon in 2017 as vice president of commercial finance, has served as chief accounting officer and treasurer since November 2018. billion, but its current market value is $1.42

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