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Visa Beats 3Q Estimates As Payments Volume Leaps

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The company saw what management deemed encouraging trends in transaction volumes, which helped push earnings per share to $0.86, better than consensus by five pennies. The headline numbers show that payments volume globally, which excluded the impact of currency fluctuations, were up 38 percentage points to $1.7 cards were 3.1

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Is Clover a Good POS System for Your Business?

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The Clover point-of-sale system is a big step above a standard credit card terminal. In some scenarios, Square may be a cheaper option overall for your business, but this is only the case for merchants processing very low monthly volumes and buying the equipment outright. If so, what makes Clover the best option?

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What’s Trending So Far In 2016

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And to make sure that everyone starts off 2016, Part II on the same footing, we thought we would bring you a few of the top trending stories, as well as hot data/research topics, that will give you a head start on that all-important planning for 2016 and beyond. Store Front Business Index: Main Street USA, A-OK? Are SMBs Ready For EMV?

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The Push And Pull Of India’s Merchant Discount Rate Ban

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As the new year takes shape, the latest test in the push and pull of various stakeholders can be found in India. The stated goal has been to boost digital payments, especially transactions across RuPay cards, which are domestically issued by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). Anticipating The Reaction.

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Deep Dive: Why Contactless Card-Not-Present Transactions Are Gaining New Momentum

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Customers are also looking for options like digital and card-not-present (CNP) transactions that allow them to make eCommerce purchases as smoothly and seamlessly as possible. . These safety and convenience considerations are pushing more consumers to use — and more merchants to enable — contactless and CNP payments. percent of U.S.

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Chime’s Expanding Banking Services Menu

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By 2016, Chime was in the market with the full suite of features that digital banks offer today. As a pure-play digital bank, Chime offers as its primary product an entirely mobile/digital banking application that gives customers access to a network-branded debit card and a savings account.

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Why Checks Are Still Golden For High-Risk Sellers

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But there is one benefit of paper checks that cards and even ACH aren’t able to provide sellers: a mitigated risk of chargebacks. For most merchants, the risk of chargebacks is one they’re willing to take for the sake of higher sales volume. Banks will place a monetary value on that chargeback risk based on sales volumes.

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