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As Digital Banking Advances, Denmark Sees 60% Jump in Card Fraud

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In Denmark, the advent of digital banking also saw almost a 60% jump in card fraud, Bloomberg reported yesterday. Danish credit card fraud significantly increased in 2016, Bloomberg said, and reports of online fraud in the country have increased 300% from reports in 2009. […].

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Credit Card Charge-Offs Reach Highest Rate Since 2009

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Moody’s Investors Service reported Thursday (June 8) that credit card charge-offs — debts that are so delinquent that lending institutions have basically given up on collecting them — are at their highest rate since 2009 , possibly due to loosening lending standards. Synchrony Financial saw the highest charge-off rate at 5.4

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CFPB To Review Fed’s 2009 Overdraft Rule

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The 2009 rule requires that financial institutions (FIs) allow consumers to “opt in” to overdraft services for a fee. It also stops banks from charging overdraft fees on ATM and one-time debit card transactions without consumer consent.

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Credit Card Losses Outpace Home, Auto Loans At US Banks

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Credit card losses at the biggest banks are outpacing auto and home loans, with the biggest margin seen in the last 10 years, according to Bloomberg. Credit bureau Experian said some of the blame comes from banks giving cards to risky borrowers, and that there is a spike in late payments from elderly consumers.

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JPMorgan Takes On Square And PayPal At The Point Of Sale

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Using QuickAccept, SMBs can take payments through a mobile app or contactless card reader and get the funds instantly, with no fee. Before Square, launched by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey in 2009, SMBs had a hard time maneuvering point-of-sale (POS) card transactions. 21) CNBC report. Square, for example, charges a 1.5%

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Square Buys Up $50M In Bitcoin

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Square was founded in 2009 in Silicon Valley and has offices in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Ireland, Spain, and the U.K. Square said the pandemic has triggered a move to card payments. Comparatively, Square made $306 million in bitcoin revenue for Q1.

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Why JPMorgan Wants A Piece Of The SMB POS Market

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For SMBs, what’s in the cards … are more card readers. Those latter two firms have been in the in-store POS market for quite some time (Square, for example, since 2009). Chase has also said that its new SMB offering will enable firms to take card payments within minutes. To that end, the banking giant J.P.

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