credit card

Credit card is a payment card issued to cardholders to enable the cardholder to pay a merchant for goods and services based on the cardholder's promise to the card issuer to pay them for the amounts plus the other agreed charges.

Retailers Ready To Drop Credit Card Signatures
Retailers Ready To Drop Credit Card Signatures
April 10, 2018  |  Authentication

With fraud on the rise, credit card networks have realized that customer signatures are simply not a reliable way to authenticate someone’s identity — and...

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Petal CEO: Using Cashflow — Not FICO — To Issue Credit Cards
Petal CEO: Using Cashflow — Not FICO — To Issue Credit Cards
April 04, 2018  |  Financial Inclusion

For the 47 percent of Americans with prime credit scores, getting and using a credit card isn’t much of a problem. The problem, Petal co-founder and CEO...

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Giving Customers Good Choices, Instead Of Merely More Options
Giving Customers Good Choices, Instead Of Merely More Options
March 15, 2018  |  Payments Innovation

If two years ago we had reported that Chase and PayPal had struck up a partnership in which Chase Freedom cardholders would get 5 percent...

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CapOne Uses Chatbots To Roll Out Virtual Account Numbers
CapOne Uses Chatbots To Roll Out Virtual Account Numbers
March 12, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

Aiming to make online shopping safer, Capital One late last week rolled out the ability to shop with virtual card numbers via chatbot. According to...

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AI Puts Fraudulent Credit Card Testers To The Test
AI Puts Fraudulent Credit Card Testers To The Test
February 21, 2018  |  Fraud Prevention

This is not a test. Beware the credit card test. There may be no escaping credit card fraud, as it comes in one form or...

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Starbucks, Visa/Chase Team On Co-Branded Rewards Card
Starbucks, Visa/Chase Team On Co-Branded Rewards Card
February 02, 2018  |  Payment Methods

Starbucks and Chase announced Thursday (Feb. 1) that they were rolling out a Starbuck Rewards Visa Card, a co-branded credit card integrated with the Starbucks...

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Even More People Searching For How To Buy Bitcoin With Credit Cards
Even More People Searching For How To Buy Bitcoin With Credit Cards
December 21, 2017  |  Bitcoin

The bitcoin craze is prompting regular investors to express interest in purchasing the digital tokens with their credit cards at an increasing rate. Bloomberg, citing...

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Amex Latest To Ditch The Signature
Amex Latest To Ditch The Signature
December 12, 2017  |  Payment Methods

Payments processor American Express announced Monday (Dec. 11) that it will stop requiring merchants to collect signatures for purchases at the point of sale (POS)....

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