E-Linx: July 2019
This E-Linx issue highlights industry news about Facebook, Bank of America and Global Payments
By Andrea
Posted Rakuten Teams With Japan’s Biggest Railway on Payments- Elinx Flash
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 [...]
E-Linx: May 2019
This E-Linx issue highlights industry news about Facebook, Bank of America and Global Payments
Facebook Plans Crypto-Currency
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 [...]
E-Linx: March 2019
This E-Linx issue highlights industry news about Checkout, Instagram's new shopping feature, Apple's integrated credit card, WorldPay enabling Amazon Pay, and many other important insights.
Facebook’s Instagram Goes Amazon
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 [...]
Walmart Jumps Into Digital Advertising Head First
Walmart moves to integrate their digital advertising in-house, betting that by leveraging their first-party shopping data from online and offline purchases they will increase revenues and [...]
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E-Linx: January 2019
This E-Linx issue highlights industry news about calls for the break up of Facebook, Fiserv's acquisition of First Data, Google's EU fine, Visa and Mastercard's denied entry into China, and [...]
By Ming Lacey
In Brick-and-Mortar Retailers, Card-Linking, Gamification, Member Q&As, Online-to-Offline, SKU-Level Data
Posted Q and A with Kirsty Rankin, Mastercard’s SVP of Merchant Value Proposition, Loyalty
CardLinx talks with Kirsty Rankin, Mastercard's SVP of Merchant Value Proposition and Loyalty about mall, millennials and the magic of card-linking.
Open Source Card-Linking Software Now Publicly Available
CardLinx announces the availability of a new open source card-linking software suite developed by Microsoft, one of its founding members. Microsoft has made the codebase for its Earn card-linking [...]
