ChaseVisa announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire financial data aggregator Plaid for $5.3 billion. Plaid’s investors include Visa, MasterCard and American Express, among others. Unlike most card-linked data providers who source consumer financial data through secure APIs from banks and payment networks, Plaid relies on a consumer entering their online banking user name and password into a...

We welcome Fanbank to The CardLinx Association. Fanbank is an online platform that enables small businesses to create and grow commerce transactions with target customers right in their own neighborhood. Fanbank’s next generation commerce software adds personalization to credit and debit card payments. Personalizing increases business profits by 25%. But marketers and business owners are bogged down with high friction...

We welcome Fidel Limited to the CardLinx Association! Based in London, Fidel is an API platform that makes it easy for developers to link payment cards to loyalty and marketing services. Fidel provides open-source mobile native and web SDKs, high quality open-source documentation and instant developer support. Additionally, the RESTful API allows developers to create card-linked applications that receives real-time...