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Levchin: Why The Affirm-Walmart Partnership Is More Than POS Credit
Levchin: Why The Affirm-Walmart Partnership Is More Than POS Credit
March 04, 2019  |  Alternative Finances

As we learned last week, purchase financing for Walmart customers is changing. In fact, the change has already begun and will continue to roll out over...

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Russia’s Trade Assoc. Accuses Visa, Mastercard Of Market Power Abuse
Russia’s Trade Assoc. Accuses Visa, Mastercard Of Market Power Abuse
March 01, 2019  |  International

Russia’s trade associations have accused Visa and Mastercard of abuse of market power in the country. According to RT.com, the Association of Internet Trade Companies,...

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Picking Up The Pace Of Payments To Stay Competitive
Picking Up The Pace Of Payments To Stay Competitive
February 28, 2019  |  Today In Data

Consumers have been trained – by Venmo and other P2P payments providers in the U.S. and around the world – to expect to be able...

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Equifax Chief Hit By Identity Theft Three Times
Equifax Chief Hit By Identity Theft Three Times
February 28, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Equifax CEO Mark Begor revealed that he has been the victim of identity theft three times in the past 10 years during a privacy hearing...

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How Consumers Rate The State Of US Disbursements
How Consumers Rate The State Of US Disbursements
February 27, 2019  |  Disbursements

There might be one word that consumers would use to describe the state of disbursements in early 2019: mediocre. Millennial consumers probably wouldn’t be so...

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Mobile Card Services In Consumers’ Daily Lives
Mobile Card Services In Consumers’ Daily Lives
February 25, 2019  |  Today In Data

Consumers are looking to their smartphones to manage their money with the help of mobile card services (MCS) in 2019. In other news, consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands...

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Florida Prisons Delete $11M Worth Of Inmate Music Purchases
Florida Prisons Delete $11M Worth Of Inmate Music Purchases
February 21, 2019  |  Mobile Commerce

Following a switch in contractors that reportedly caused prisoners to lose access to music that they purchased, an inmate in a Florida prison is suing...

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LendingClub Loan Applications Surge 18 Pct Despite Earnings Miss
LendingClub Loan Applications Surge 18 Pct Despite Earnings Miss
February 20, 2019  |  Earnings

LendingClub shares sank on guidance that missed the Street, but management said fourth quarter lending activity was strong across personal and auto loans, even as...

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Moody’s: U.S. Household, Credit Debt Grow Modestly, Auto Delinquencies Decline
Moody’s: U.S. Household, Credit Debt Grow Modestly, Auto Delinquencies Decline
February 13, 2019  |  Consumer Finance

Moody’s Investors Service, an American Credit rating firm, has released its quarterly Pulse of Consumer Credit report, and in a report emailed to PYMNTS, it...

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