Retail

CardLinx member Rakuten announced today that it would launch a bank and card-issuing business in the USA. Rakuten is headquartered in Japan where it is the number one e-commerce site and has [...]

CardLinx members, Sentral, a card-linked merchant rewards gateway for debit transactions and fintech provider myGini, Inc. today announced the launch of their partnership for Debit CLO.

CardLinx member Rakuten is partnering with JR East, Japan’s largest railway to promote cashless payments. The new service will enable Japanese consumers to charge and use their rechargeable smart [...]

Instagram, Facebook’s photo sharing platform, is enabling consumers to tap and buy products right from the app. Checkout, the new shopping feature, circumvents traditional merchants and allows [...]

The number 8 ranked US merchant payments processor, Global Payments, today announced it would acquire Total Systems, the number 10 US ranked payments processor. The deal follows an accelerating [...]

Facebook is planning to launch a new crypto currency for users to buy goods online. Over the last year it has been recruiting banks, payment companies and merchants to accept and facilitate the [...]

Google reported sharply slowing revenue growth for its digital ads business as new competitors including card-linked marketing platforms and Amazon, Walmart.com gain traction. Google’s first [...]

Wirecard is a leading global payments platform and processor that focuses on merchants in-store and on-line payments processing needs. Wirecard is publicly traded and currently has a market cap [...]

Alliance Data’s Epsillon Business has agreed to be sold for over $4 billion to Publicis. Alliance Data Systems Corporation is a publicly traded provider of loyalty and marketing services, such [...]

Apple unveiled its much-anticipated credit card that fully integrates with Apple Pay. The Apple Card offers cash back on purchases, 1% with the physical card—made from titanium with no visible [...]