Credit card surcharges are permissible in most states and are useful to merchants for what those fees cover, but many consumers dislike these charges even though most will pay them As payments choice proliferates, however, we see consumers who use...
Having endured two years of COVID, waves of lockdowns, a mash-up of mask mandates, sporadic business restrictions, extensive wage and labor challenges and more, the nation’s beleaguered retail industry is now facing a brand new competitor that...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) needs to protect consumers from big technology companies eager to make inroads in the payments processing business, according to comments filed this week with the agency by two bank industry trade...
Digital payment software platform ACI Worldwide expects a 23% global spike from 2020 in eCommerce between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, according to a press release, and a 14% jump in eCommerce from October through December Tickets are expected to...
FiNet is excited to announce that we’ve worked with our payment processors to create a solution for CBD businesses An emerging marketing with tremendous growth in recent years, our financial institution partners and their merchant customers...
Customers flocked to online channels to access the goods and services they needed during pandemic closures, and research shows they have no plans to change their new habits upon returning to pre-pandemic conditions Global consumers created 15 new...
As consumers continue to return to the aisles en masse, retailers are seeking new ways to keep them coming back, even when online and mobile options beckon One method of keeping consumers happy to be in a physical store is...
The practice of swiping could soon be limited to thieves and online daters as Mastercard Inc prepares a phaseout of the magnetic stripes that enable people to swipe their credit and debit cards Though magnetic stripes have been a fixture...
FiNet is proud to be a strategic event sponsor of the annual convention for the Community Bankers Association of Ohio, taking place in Columbus, Ohio Now in its 47th year, the annual CBAO convention is a cornerstone for community banking...
About 28 billion mobile wallets were in use worldwide at the end of 2020, and the number is expected to jump 74% to 48 billion within five years, according to a recent forecast from global mobile-payment network provider Boku in...
At the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdowns in early 2020, massive declines in spending were pervasive Credit card spending in the travel and entertainment categories declined as much as 73% from the first week of March to the first week...
