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Discover Beats Street EPS on Card and Loan Growth
July 20, 2016

Discover Financial Services beat estimates on the top and bottom lines for the second quarter as the firm saw total loans grow to just under $72 billion, up four percent. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

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France Says ‘Bonjour’ To Apple Pay
July 20, 2016

Apple Pay went live in France Tuesday (July 19), making it the eighth country where the service is now offered as a payments option and the third European country to offer the service after the U.K. and Switzerland, according to 9to5mac. Get the Full Story Complete...

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Millions Impacted By Worldpay Outage
July 20, 2016

Some online gamblers and eCommerce website operators are up in arms after being blocked from receiving daily payments because of an outage at Worldpay, the United Kingdom payment processor. Worldpay’s customers include British Airways. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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Looking At Gift Cards ‘Through The Eyes Of The Consumer’
July 20, 2016

More and more consumers are purchasing gift cards online, and the vast majority of them are very satisfied with the transactions. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...

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In Payments, Change Is The Only Constant
July 20, 2016

Ovum’s “2016 Global Payments Insight Survey: Merchants and Retailers: Changing the Merchant Experience,” released in conjunction with ACI Worldwide, shows that the payments landscape is drawn as one defined by a tight ecosystem, with merchants and retailers bound to billing firms differently than how they...

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Walmart Turns Visa Away In Some Stores In Canada
July 19, 2016

It looks like Walmart Canada wasn’t bluffing. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form, you agree...

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Citigroup Says Solving Costco Issue A ‘Top Priority’
July 19, 2016

When Costco announced that it would be moving on from American Express for its store card program, it was assumed that the resultant contract with Citigroup would come as a boon to the issuer. However, a few weeks and millions of customer complaints later, both...

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Will Press-On Nails Be The New Way To Pay?
July 19, 2016

London commuters can rejoice if British student Lucie Davis’s idea ever goes to market. The college student, who was recently featured in Cosmopolitan, knows all too well how easy it is to lose the Oyster card, the travel card that gets riders in and out...

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Closing The Financial Services Gap
July 19, 2016

New research from Filene suggests that the 30 percent of U.S. households that are minorities could be an attractive segment for traditional financial services firms. If, they report, these firms take a lesson or two from the minority credit unions that serve this segment today.