American Express and Delta Air Lines have been co-branded credit card partners for 30 years. There are seven million Delta American Express consumer and business co-branded cardholders—about one-third of all members in Delta’s SkyMiles loyalty program. Last year, co-branded American Express cards generated $8.20 billion in revenue for Delta, an amount that exceeded its operating income tied to flights.
Commercial and consumer debit and prepaid cards issued by financial institutions that were the 100 largest in the US generated $3.233 trillion in purchase volume in 2025, an increase of 3.7% from 2024. For the complete ranking, log in and download Issue 1309. That purchase volume includes domestic debit networks, such as Star, Pulse, Nyce […]
UKPI transactions will be settled directly between a consumer and a merchant bank. Unlike existing A2A payments, UKPI transactions will carry rules that govern disputes as well as other consumer protections.
The settlement was reached only after a major concession by the card networks—they dropped their decades-long honor all cards rules. In principle, merchants can now deny a cardholder from using a particular card product. Candidates for that treatment by merchants would be those cards that charge higher interchange fees.
Cash App is adding a proprietary line of near field communication (NFC) accessories linked to its Cash App Visa Card. The first Cash App Tags device is a wand. Cash App and Square are business units of parent company Block. The wand is designed to be kept in the open. It can be clipped to […]
CoinZoom’s blockchain-based trading platform makes an immediate crypto-to-fiat currency exchange on those transactions. The company maintains SOC 2 Type II enterprise-level data security.
Vera Credit launched this month with a direct mail campaign, testing three levels of cash back reward offers to 150,000 prospects. The company is not marketing online because it wants to control applications.
More than 40,000 businesses in the US, including dental offices, automotive repair, veterinarians and other in-person service providers, offer more than four million of their customers flexible payment options from Sunbit. The company opened its buy now, pay later (BNPL) business in 2015. In 2019, Sunbit started offering select BNPL users a Visa credit card. […]
Keyno’s software does more than fight fraud. Issuers can also use it to place parameters on card spending, validate 3DS transactions, autofill fields at checkout, activate an app, confirm that cardholders are in possession of their card, enable click to pay and manage the life cycle of a merchant or device token.
Purchase volume for all 18 issuers listed was $101.24 billion.
