2022 DCA Industry Study Shows Strong Annual Growth More than one-third of respondents report card-linking growth rates up more than 100 percent HERNDON, Va. (Dec. 19, 2022)—The Digital Commerce Alliance (DCA) released 2022 data revealing industry trends related to the card-linking, mobile wallet, and financial data space at the annual DCA Summit held earlier this month. Among the global trade...

2022 DCA Industry Study Shows Strong Annual Growth More than one-third of respondents report card-linking growth rates up more than 100 percent HERNDON, Va. (Dec. 19, 2022)—The Digital Commerce Alliance (DCA) released 2022 data revealing industry trends related to the card-linking, mobile wallet, and financial data space at the annual DCA Summit held earlier this month. Among the global trade...

A Fast & Furious Two-Hour Conversation On Thursday, November 17th, 15 DCA executives did a “strategy sprint” to assess tech disruption. Here are a few observations. You may have taken our five-minute tech disruption survey.  We used it to lay the groundwork for a “strategy sprint”.  Fifteen executives from a dozen DCA member companies worked together to assess which technologies...

Is Business Travel About to Stall?  After virtually disappearing in early 2020, business travelers are again booking trips to meetings, conferences, and events. Global business travel was a $1.4 trillion industry in 2019 – but conflicting focuses have experts guessing at how long it will take for business travel to return to that level. Currently, the Global Business Travel Association...

Digital Commerce Alliance Top 20 Women By Digital Commerce Alliance Since 2019, the Digital Commerce Alliance (DCA) has published a list of the top women in our industry. This year is no exception. For the fourth consecutive time, we are pleased to honor outstanding women in leadership positions at card-linking, banking, financial data, mobile wallet, digital advertising, fintech, payments and...

Digital Commerce Alliance Top 20 Women By Digital Commerce Alliance   The world has changed significantly since we last published our annual Top 20 Women in Digital Commerce list. A year ago, uncertainty was the watchword, prompting those in our industry to make shifts needed to manage in a pandemic world. While the risks are not totally behind us, companies...

Facing today’s new normal in the wake of Covid-19, companies in the digital commerce industry are re-evaluating, repositioning, and retooling the way they do business. Increasingly, women executives are taking the lead. The CardLinx Association researched women at the forefront of these efforts, and identified those making unprecedented strides. With membership spanning retail, fin-tech, mobile payments, digital advertising, banking and...

HOW DOES YOUR COMPANY FIT INTO THE CARD-LINKING OR ONLINE-TO-OFFLINE COMMERCE ECOSYSTEMS? ContextLink offers a new category of Personalized AI and Data Platforms that allows customizable content to your loyalty program – providing both insight and engagement into a much more highly-complex consumer. We do this through our proprietary platform that micro-segments customer data to find the known and unknown...

Expect the Unexpected in Covid-19’s Wake In the uncertainty that surrounds the coronavirus, Silvio Tavares, CEO of industry trade association Cardlinx, shared perspectives with member executives around the world. Among topics discussed? Travel’s stalled, with hotel occupancy at just 15% and properties slated to close; credit card use is down, impacting the U.S. and other countries where consumer spending accounts...

By Silvio Tavares, CEO, The CardLinx Association At a time like this, when our personal lives and professional lives are unexpectedly upended, it‘s tough to stay optimistic—and not lose sight of unseen opportunities. As we witness the enormous scale of death, sickness and suffering caused by Covid-19, it can be difficult to see the silver lining. But it is often...

CardLinx member company RBC (formerly known as Royal Bank of Canada) announced it will be launching a digital bank in the US targeting affluent customers. RBC is the largest bank in Canada and has launched a number of card-linking programs in Canada through its RBC Ventures unit. CardLinx Insight: RBC joins a growing list of large foreign banks opening operations...

FIS and PayPal have partnered to offer more payment choices to their joint customers. Beginning Q3 2020, consumers with payment cards from financial institutions participating in FIS’ Premium Payback loyalty network can redeem points for payment using PayPal. FIS is the first non-bank payments processor to integrate with PayPal’s Pay with Rewards program—a partnership that will benefit millions of cardholders....