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Wells Fargo Seeks Bidders For Private-Label Credit Card Unit

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Wells Fargo & Co is seeking to sell its private-label credit card and point-of-sale (POS) financing unit as part of an ongoing strategic review of its businesses. Selling the private-label credit card unit would be a business reversal for the financial services group. Wells Fargo also reported heightened debit card usage.

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Supreme Court: Amex Anti-Steering Does Not Run Afoul Of Antitrust Law

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In a ruling Monday morning (June 25), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that American Express , the third-largest card network in the U.S., did not violate federal antitrust laws with business practices — known as anti-steering — that prohibit merchants from, in turn, dissuading consumers from using American Express cards.

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Mobile Payments: CakePay Is Eating the World

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Here’s a quick summary of how it works (a more in-depth description can be found here ): Install CakePay on your iPhone or Android phone and add your preferred payment card to it. A second trip to come back to pick it up with your payment card. A third to bring the card back so the guest can add the tip on the paper receipt and sign.

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

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Webpay failed to gain user traction and was shut down in 2014, unlike up-start Venmo (now a part of rival payments processor PayPal). Based on our findings, it’s hard to claim that Amazon is building the next-generation bank. Increase the number of customers on Amazon, and enable each customer to spend more. Amazon Payments.

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The New York Subway’s Better Digital Ticket To Ride

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Before coming to Mastercard five years ago, Judge was part of the Transport for London team, which brought contactless payments to London’s public transport (also in partnership with Cubic ) in 2014. New York City commuters – arguably the most on-the-go demographic in the United States – do not want to wait for anything.

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Squaring The Circle That Is Square

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Not because he didn’t have a buyer, but because his buyer didn’t have that much cash— and McKelvey didn’t take credit cards. So, while McKelvey lost out on that $2,000 sale — he and his (friend) and Co-Founder Jack Dorsey — the founder of Twitter — did end up with a $17 billion idea (Square’s market cap at the time this piece went to press).

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Should Facebook Buy eBay?

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Jeff Bezos started Amazon in his Bellevue garage in 1994. And perhaps the most famous garage startup story ever is that of Bill Hewlett and David Packard and the garage they rented in 1939 to start the electronics company that would later bear their names. That garage is now a private museum and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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