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US Consumers Pay Down $10B In Credit Card Debt In Q3

PYMNTS

According to the Fed’s latest quarterly report on household debt and credit, overall consumer debt hit $14.35 August was the six month in a row that saw a drop in consumer credit card balances, the lowest level since 2017. trillion, up $87 billion, a 0.6 percent increase over Q2. Mortgage debt hit $9.86 Mortgage debt hit $9.86

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The Nine Things We Know For Sure About The Post-Pandemic Consumer

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consumers across demographics and geographies for months about how their lives have changed (or not) since the pandemic began. And we’ve asked them how they envision what their lives as consumers will be when the pandemic is over. Many consumers are increasingly shopping using voice assistants while doing other activities.

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Blackhawk Network Teams with Mastercard to Add Paper Prepaid Products

Finovate

The California-based company has offered paper-based and recycled products since 2017, and made a pledge in 2022 to convert most of its own original card products to digital or paper. ” BHN reports that paper-based cards still offer convenience and reliability while posing minimal disruption to consumers, retailers, and issuers.

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Department Store Outlook Grim For 2017

PYMNTS

In its new report, the rating agency said it now expects aggregate department store operating income to have declined 18 percent in 2016 as opposed to the originally estimated decline of 11 percent. The outlook isn’t stellar either, as Moody’s projects the sales decline for department stores to continue into continue in 2017.

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Wells Fargo Used Agile Development To Launch A Mobile-Based Consumer Account Control App

Tom Groenfeldt

Control Tower originated in 2017 and moved into production in 2018 using agile methodology to get from announcement to launch in a matter of months.

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FICO Research: Broader Mix of Consumers Obtaining New Mortgages

FICO

The first clear trend observed around newly originated mortgages is that as we get further away from the Great Recession, underwriting criteria seems to have eased and a broader section of consumers are obtaining mortgages as a result. Additionally, as the economy has improved over the past decade, so have mortgage delinquency rates.

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Out of Sight: How Banks Protect Consumers from Credit Card Fraud

FICO

Many of the world’s leading banks and card issuers trust our Falcon Platform , which protects more than two-thirds of the world’s credit card and debit card transactions from fraud, as well as other forms or real-time payments and consumer banking funds transfers. Consumers Want to Be Involved.