We welcome Travelsify to The CardLinx Association! The company is based in both Luxembourg and New York. By analyzing more than 400 million traveler and expert reviews, Travelsify has extracted...
Global Payments Announces Acquisition of Total Systems The number 8 ranked US merchant payments processor, Global Payments, today announced it would acquire Total Systems, the number 10 US ranked payments...
Facebook Plans Crypto-Currency Facebook is planning to launch a new crypto currency for users to buy goods online. Over the last year it has been recruiting banks, payment companies and...
Google Growth Slows as Card-linking and New Digital Ad Players Gain Google reported sharply slowing revenue growth for its digital ads business as new competitors including card-linked marketing platforms and...
Japan's leading global investor, Softbank, has announced a $1 Billion investment pledge in Wirecard. Wirecard is a leading global payments platform and processor that focuses on merchants' in-store and on-line...
Publicis to Buy Epsilon from Alliance Data Alliance Data’s Epsillon Business has agreed to be sold for over $4 billion to Publicis. Alliance Data Systems Corporation is a publicly traded provider...
Apple Announces Integrated Credit Card Apple unveiled its much-anticipated credit card that fully integrates with Apple Pay. The Apple Card offers cash back on purchases, 1% with the physical card—made...
WorldPay Inks Deal to Enable Amazon Pay Worldpay one of the top 10 payment acquirers and processors in the US announced a deal to enable Amazon Pay as payment option...
Instagram creates new revenue stream with Checkout Instagram, Facebook's photo sharing platform, is enabling consumers to tap and buy products right from the app. Checkout, the new shopping feature, circumvents...
by Silvio Tavares President and CEO The CardLinx Association In January 2018, few people could have predicted that artificial-intelligence technology would become so commonplace in payments and commerce. But by...