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Consumers Embrace Debit Amid Ongoing Uncertainty

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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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Deep Dive: How Payment Card Networks Win Merchants Over

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Mastercard and Visa handled more than 80 percent of debit transactions in 2009 — the year before the amendment passed. billion debit purchases that year, for example, and merchants paid $0.44 on average for each debit card payment they accepted, incurring costs of 1.2 Issuers took in $16 billion worth of interchange fees on 37.9

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Deep Dive: Measuring COVID-19’s Impact On Consumers’ Payment Preferences

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Consumers are also rethinking whether they should be paying for goods with cash, credit cards or debit cards. The volume of grocery purchases made over PULSE’s debit network was 25 percent higher than usual during March 17 to March 24, for example. percent higher than PSCU had seen during the same period in 2019.

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Delivering Instant, Guaranteed Funds to Consumers

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Legacy technology can only go “faster” — it cannot achieve the consumer requirement of “instant” and immediately be available for consumers to spend” Fortunately, the technology is already in place to meet this consumer demand for instant guaranteed funds. Behind the scenes, the network has encountered an error and cannot reach the card.