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Adyen’s Intelligent Payment Routing Achieves 26% Cost Savings and Improves Payment Performance on US Debit Transactions

Fintech Finance

At a time when organizations are increasingly exploring fiscal efficiencies, Adyen’s Intelligent Payment Routing ensures that enterprise businesses processing US debit transactions do not need to choose between cost, acceptance, or speed. From 2022 to 2023, the number of debit card transactions increased by more than 27%.

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Justice Department Accuses Visa of Hindering Innovation by Monopolising Debit Network Markets

The Fintech Times

Visa has been accused of maintaining a monopoly over debit network markets in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act. In 2020, the Justice Department filed a civil antitrust lawsuit to stop Visa from acquiring Plaid , a technology company that powers fintech apps developing disruptive options for online debit payments.

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AI for Debit Routing: Saving on Debit Transactions

Cardfellow

In this article, well look at the first one – how AI can help save your business money through debit card interchange optimization. Debit Routing Background The Durbin Amendment and PIN Debit Routing Choosing Debit Networks AI for Debit Routing Which processors offer AI debit routing optimization?

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Consumers Embrace Debit Amid Ongoing Uncertainty

PYMNTS

Debit cards remain the payment method of choice among U.S. consumers, regardless of whether they are shopping online or in stores, according to recent reports,” notes PYMNTS October Next-Gen Debit Tracker® done in collaboration with PULSE , A Discover Company. Touchless Debit, Meet Cybercrooks. Numbers tell the tale.

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FTC Probing Visa, Mastercard About Debit Card Practices

PYMNTS

antitrust regulators are investigating Visa and Mastercard about their debit card policies, Bloomberg reported on Thursday (Nov. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is talking to large merchants to discover if some retailers are being blocked from routing digital payments over alternative debit networks, sources told Bloomberg.

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US Debit Card Usage Soars as Consumers Embrace Convenient Payments

The Fintech Times

The 2024 PULSE Debit Issuer Study reveals that in 2023, the total number of debit cards, transactions and annual spending per active card all saw substantial increases. On average, active debit cardholders completed 34.6 transactions per month, including 30.7 ATM transactions.

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Visa Adjusts Policies On Debit Routing

PYMNTS

The company said that, with the chip cards, routing and processing of debit transactions are made possible across two payment application identifiers (AID) that are contained on the chip. Common Debit AID and the Visa Debit AID. The AIDs are known as the U.S.