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Pivot Joins Amex Sync to Provide Better Cash Flow Management
October 15, 2024

Commercial card FinTech Pivot Payables has launched an integration with American Express (Amex). The integration, announced Tuesday (Oct. 15), lets Amex business and corporate card members generate virtual cards within PivotLynx, Pivot Payables’ accounting automation application, getting requests to managers for budget approval and cost accounting. “We are teaming up with...

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Barclays Takes Over Goldman’s GM Credit Card Portfolio
October 14, 2024

Barclays US Consumer Bank will become the exclusive issuer of General Motors’ GM Rewards Mastercard and GM Business Mastercard in the United States in the summer of 2025 and will acquire the card program’s receivables from the current issuer — Goldman Sachs — next year....

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SoFi Adds Credit Cards Focused on Rewards and Credit Scores
October 09, 2024

SoFi Technologies has added two new credit cards to its one-stop shop for digital financial services. One card is designed for consumers who prioritize earning rewards on their daily spending, while the other is for those focused on building or improving their credit scores, the...

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Mercury Gets $100 Million Credit Warehouse for Corporate Card Business
October 09, 2024

FinTech company Mercury secured a $100 million credit warehouse with Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking to grow its corporate credit card business. In the two years since Mercury launched its IO credit card business, its IO World Elite Mastercard has become the most used corporate...

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Credit Card Issuers Raise Rates Ahead of Late Fee Cap
October 07, 2024

Credit card issuers reportedly have been raising interest rates on the cards and adding new fees to make up for revenue they may lose from a cap on late fees. These moves have contributed to the average credit card interest rate being near the highest...

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35% of Cardholders Abandon Merchant After a Card Decline
October 04, 2024

Striking the right balance between seamless payments and strong security is crucial for merchants. As eCommerce continues to flourish, a PYMNTS Intelligence report, “Why Network Tokenization Is eCommerce’s Newest Essential,” in collaboration with Spreedly, examines why the integration of network tokenization has emerged as a...

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Galileo Targets Underbanked Consumers With Secured Credit Options
September 25, 2024

Galileo Financial Technologies introduced a credit offering aimed at underbanked/underserved consumers. Secured Credit with Dynamic Funding is designed to simplify the secured credit process, making it easier for consumers to manage debit and credit accounts, while also reducing lenders’ risk by backing credit with secured...

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Donald Trump Proposes Temporary 10% Cap on Credit Card Interest Rates
September 20, 2024

Donald Trump wants to put a temporary cap on credit card interest rates at 10%, according to a Wednesday post on X by the official X account for the Trump campaign. Trump proposed the idea at a campaign rally in New York, the Wall Street...

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Synchrony’s CareCredit Credit Card Now Accepted at Albertsons Cos. Stores
September 18, 2024

Synchrony’s CareCredit health and wellness credit card is now accepted for select items in nearly 2,200 Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, ACME, Shaw’s and Jewel-Osco stores. A new collaboration of Synchrony and food and drug retailer Albertsons Companies allows the card to be used for select health and wellness products at these stores, the companies said...