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Next-Gen Co-Brand Cards are Tailored to You, by You

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A recent survey found that one in three Gen Z shoppers would switch merchants if given more personalized offers. Gaming is another area that offers a new platform to “meet” consumers and deepen engagement, whether by enabling a seamless in-app or on-console payment or by creating unique digital assets exclusively for co-brand cardholders.

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B2B Marketplace Faire Accelerates the Digitization of an Underserved Market: Wholesale

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The platform now features more than 100,000 brands from 100 + countries, and in September 2023, ecommerce vanguard Shopify took a stake in the company and made Faire the recommended wholesale marketplace for its millions of merchants. The innovation that we at Faire brought to the market was offering free returns and net-60 payment terms.

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Mastercard to raise credit and debit card fees

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WASHINGTON – Almost immediately after agreeing to reduce “swipe” fees charged to merchants to process credit card transactions, Mastercard plans to increase fees for both credit and debit card transactions by more than $250 million this month, the Merchants Payments Coalition said Wednesday.

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Merchants oppose delay of Fed action on swipe fees

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WASHINGTON – More than 60 national and state organizations representing consumers and merchants have called on Congress to reject legislation introduced by Rep. The letter comes as the House Financial Services Committee holds a subcommittee hearing on H.R. cents as of 2021, according to the Merchants Payments Coalition.

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The Digital Last Mile: How Behavior Personalization And Globalization Are Key To Survival In The Post-COVID Era Of E-commerce

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However, sales across all other verticals analyzed in the report, including fashion, food services and electronics stores, were severely negatively affected. Yencken joined the Board of Directors in 2008 and served as Chairman for from 2011 to 2014. In reality, the opposite is true. He is also Chairman of Matrak.

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Merchants call on Fed to cut debit card swipe fees

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WASHINGTON – The Merchants Payments Coalition on Tuesday called for the Federal Reserve to revise debit card swipe fee rules to reflect lower bank costs. The swipe fee regulations were adopted a decade ago, and a new Fed report shows that banks’ average cost of processing the transactions has since fallen by half.

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MPC seeks changes to ‘swipe’ fees proposal

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WASHINGTON — The Merchants Payments Coalition, a group lobbying for “a more competitive and transparent” payment-card system,” is asking the Federal Reserve to further modify its proposed cap on the “swipe” fees merchants pay banks to process the transactions. cents at the time the rate was set to 3.9