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Despite a recent decrease in inflation rates, consumers remain cautious in their spending habits, wary of the economic uncertainties ahead.  In fact, the persistent concern over living costs continues to shape consumer behavior, ...

Blackhawk Network (BHN) has introduced a new way for businesses to distribute customer loyalty rewards. The branded payments provider’s “Select Codes” offering, announced Thursday (Feb. 15), is a digital “code-to-catalog” that lets businesses ...

Branded payments provider Blackhawk Network is expanding its digital gift card offerings via partnership with Roblox. The partnership will offer digital gift cards on digital gaming platform Roblox’s gift card site in the local currencies of ...

Branded payments provider Blackhawk Network is acquiring B2B gift card firm Tango Card. Tango established the digital-first reward experience through its application programming interface (API), coupled with its service and global ...

Payment network Affirm teamed with digital gift card distributor Blackhawk Network. The collaboration is designed to give consumers more choice and freedom in buying gift cards, which are surging in popularity ...

Fiserv a global provider of payments and financial services technology, has announced a strategic partnership with Blackhawk Network (BHN) to expand access to walk-in bill payment services. This collaboration will enable ...

Branded payments providers Blackhawk Network and Recharge have expanded their gift card partnership. The two companies have already been collaborating in Europe and have agreed to distribute gift cards digitally via Blackhawk’s network in the United States ...

Global branded payments provider Blackhawk Network and buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform Klarna on Tuesday (July 12) teamed up to bring Klarna’s interest-free flexible payments solution into a variety ...

Blackhawk Network and LibertyX will be working together to provide new opportunities for customers to purchase bitcoin in an effort to make crypto more accessible, the companies announced Tuesday (June ...

It’s Thursday, May 19, and it’s an outlier day — only Devil’s Food Cake Day seems to have claimed it, and that’s not nearly enough. Nine years ago today Yahoo ...

There’s a lot of hype about every part of the NFT world, and their use as the next big thing in marketing is part of it. Brands ranging from McDonald’s to ...

We never knew how cool — and extremely useful — payments options could be until we began to have so many to choose from. That’s putting customer experience into the ...

Bitcoin-based payments firm Strike last night announced deals that will bring crypto payments to NCR point-of-sale terminals, Shopify and prepaid payments provider Blackhawk Network. The announcement brings bitcoin, originally designed as ...

Despite the headlines about the continued geopolitical turmoil, the risk of cyberattack isn’t exactly new. Denial-of-service attacks and ransomware are never far from mind. Data exfiltration — where consumer information ...

Today in food commerce, DoorDash begins lending money to restaurants, and KFC parent company Yum Brands rolls out new technologies. Plus, Tristan Roffey, vice president and group head of global ...

Nearly two years out from the boost they received in the early months of the pandemic, grocers are facing new challenges. With the increase in sales and traffic grocers received ...

Today in the connected economy, Porsche hosts the Porsche Data Cup, a contest open to developers from other companies designed to find new use cases for data generated by connected ...

Global payments provider Blackhawk Network is expanding its partnership with Kroger to offer prepaid Mastercard and Visa cards in bulk through its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based Velocity B2B gift card service, the ...

Branded payments provider Blackhawk Network has purchased a minority stake in Wogi, a rewards and incentives company based in Singapore. “The collaboration will accelerate the growth of rewards and incentives throughout ...

Consumers drove the seismic shift in payments technology in 2021, says Talbott Roche, president and CEO of Blackhawk Network. Now, the ball is in retailers’ court. To run with it, ...

Branded payments provider Blackhawk Network on Tuesday (Jan. 11) partnered with grocery retailer Carrefour Group to manage its branded third-party gift card program in France, Belgium, Poland, Italy, Spain, Romania, ...

If the last 20-plus months have taught us anything, it’s to expect technological change to be faster and more profound than before, with payments connecting almost all of it somehow. It’s ...

Branded payments provider Blackhawk Network debuted the ability for shoppers to give people on their holiday shopping lists a variety of brands to use the balance through content expansion and ...

With record numbers of people working and shopping from home, merchants and other businesses have no choice but to invest in better digital capabilities and products to meet these changing ...

Buy now pay later (BNPL) platform Zip (formerly known as Quadpay) is teaming up with branded payments firm Blackhawk Network to enable gift card purchases in a variety of ways, ...

“The brands that are finding success in recovery and growth are also those that actively seek solutions to new challenges by creating fresh, seamless experiences to engage customers across the ...

Global payments provider Blackhawk Network and Magstar Inc., an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software company for mid-sized retailers, have joined forces to create a solution that allows customers to pay via a ...

Cash might still be the king of South America’s largest economy, Brazil, where it accounts for over a third of all payments — but as alternative payment methods such as ...

Blackhawk Network is on a mission to unlock billions of dollars in value that’s stored on people’s smartphones — whether it’s loyalty points, air miles or peer-to-peer accounts — and ...

Video games used to fit neatly into a box with some very well-defined parameters. Gamers were generally young and male; games were physical goods to be purchased; and playing them was ...

In A Decade of Digital Transformation in 12 Months, 46 C-suite executives spoke with PYMNTS for its Q2 eBook on what the world will look like as recovery rolls on ...

In today’s top connected economy news, Indian food delivery startup Zomato has notched $562.3 million from investors, while Apple is said to be working on an “Apple Pay Later” monthly ...

As much as the digital shift has spawned numerous changes over the past year, the biggest shift of all, Blackhawk Australia Managing Director for Commerce George Lawson told PYMNTS, is ...

Blackhawk Network, a global branded payments provider, is rolling out the Enterprise Edition of its Digital Gifting offering to help retailers get ready for the busy holiday shopping season. The ...

Apparel startup UNTUCKit is partnering with global payments provider Blackhawk Network to grow its gift card program into malls and supermarkets. “As more states reopen and people trickle back to work ...

Blackhawk Network is teaming up with the state of California to offer digital gift cards as an incentive to get vaccinated, the global payments provider announced in a press release ...

People have been writing cash’s obituary for well over a decade at this point, forecasting the day when paper transactions of all kinds will be no more, replaced by more ...

While there have been many challenges in the past year, Talbott Roche, CEO and president of Blackhawk Network, also recognizes many opportunities inherent in the wave of digitization. “Payments can ...

In today’s top news, N26 is partnering with Simplesurance to take on the insurance industry, and PayPal’s CEO said the platform’s crypto service could reach $200 million in volume in ...

Consumers clearly like playing the lottery — they purchase roughly $60 billion worth of scratch-off tickets a year. You have to be in it to win it, as the expression ...

The term “gift card,” as of the year 2021, is becoming something of a misnomer, as a gift card may or may not be given as a gift — and ...

Blackhawk Network and Bakkt have collaborated to let users buy eGifts using digital assets like bitcoin, supported loyalty points and cash, according to a Tuesday (April 6) announcement. “Consumers appreciate the versatility of ...

Consumers don’t want to think about payments – they just want them to work. The underlying methods that make up payments – credit, debit, gift card balance, ACH – are ...

Children of Restaurant Employees (CORE), which offers help to families in the restaurant service industry, has teamed with Blackhawk Network to harness prepaid cards for grant disbursements. The tie-up lets ...

Tops Friendly Markets now sells its company-branded tangible and digital gift cards through its website. The supermarket company’s online gift card program, which is fueled by international branded payments provider ...

It’s hard to argue the digital shift in any business, but particularly at retail. PYMNTS research shows that 97.3 million U.S. consumers have now switched to performing at least one ...

Blackhawk Network said Thursday (Feb. 11) that Nikhil (Nik) Sathe has been named as the company’s chief technology officer (CTO). Sathe will lead in areas such as product development, systems ...

In today’s top payments news around the world, Blackhawk Network has launched its new virtual universal prepaid Mastercard for Canadian firms, while U.K.-based BigChange said that Great Hill Partners has ...

Global branded payments provider Blackhawk Network has launched its new virtual universal prepaid Mastercard for Canadian businesses, according to a press release. Businesses can issue the prepaid cards as a customer ...

Digital greeting card and gifting company Givingli has chosen Blackhawk Network to provide its app users with digital gift card selections. Givingli is an app that brings together greetings created ...

Kroger customers can now expediently and simply order gift cards for curbside pickup in addition to their supermarket items at 1,900 of the chain’s locations throughout the nation, according to ...

While the COVID-19 pandemic will eventually come to an end, many of the changes it has brought will likely persist into the future. Digital has certainly advanced further and faster than ...

In today’s top news in digital-first banking, U.K. FinTech Revolut has introduced its Pockets tool, while Robinhood Markets is reportedly working with Goldman Sachs for its public offering preparations. Plus, ...

Blackhawk Network, a global branded payments provider, has rolled out its Giving Good Prepaid Mastercard with a release that encompasses five choices that benefit charitable organizations, according to a Tuesday ...

Blackhawk Network is introducing a suite of tools merchants can use worldwide to connect digital and physical payments, the company said in a Tuesday (Dec. 1) press release. “Retailers’ and merchants’ ...

Blackhawk Network recently announced that it has assisted dozens of nonprofit and government partners in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom issue an overall $250 million in help ...

“As COVID-19 reshapes the perceptions and needs of digital payments, one of the significant shifts for our team here at Blackhawk Network has been working to further intensify the growth ...

Gift card giant Blackhawk Network this week announced it is selling charity-branded gift cards that will trigger contributions to those charities when loaded. Recipients of what are being called “Giving Good” ...

Mobile payments have long been billed as the next big thing. Starting with the release of Apple Pay in 2014, there was a veritable rush of proprietary mobile wallets sent ...

Asian-American cuisine restaurant operator Panda Express, which has 2,000 eateries across the United States, is running a new digital gift card program using services provided by Blackhawk Network, Blackhawk announced ...

Payments provider Blackhawk Network is working with the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services in order to facilitate speedy delivery of $25 million in necessary spending for healthcare professionals fighting ...

Well, now what? That’s the question all companies are asking as they internalize the impact of the shift to digital on their customers, their businesses and their future. The challenge — particularly ...

“Over the coming months, retailers also need to prepare for the continued — and maybe even swifter — move to mobile.”  Omnicommerce is new to millions of consumers and small businesses. ...

People love to predict traditional money’s imminent demise. Countless think pieces have been written about how cash is on its last legs, but somehow it keeps sticking around. Brett Narlinger, head of ...

Motivating a change in consumers or retailers is not always easy work, a reality evidenced by the plodding pace of contactless payments in the U.S. The trouble, Blackhawk Network CEO and ...

Payments stocks were weighted just a bit to the upside as earnings season got officially under way. Though dominated by the likes of Visa and American Express, earnings reports also ...

For the week that just ended, payments stocks were weighted to the positive end of performance, where the top five gainers posted mid-single-digit increases. By way of contrast, only a ...

Prepaid card and payments firm Blackhawk Network said on Wednesday (Jan. 6) that it has bought GiftCards.com. The latter company sells digital and physical prepaid cards through the site and ...

In a recent study, Blackhawk Network, a leader in the prepaid card industry, found that in the U.K. several segments of shoppers find convenience and value in gift cards. ...

Point. Click. Save. Pay. That describes the experience that Blackhawk Network will enable its physical gift card users to have with their Google Wallets. Storing these plastic cards in a ...

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