New Clean Way to Pay: Mobile Wallets Surge on Covid 19 Fears Requiring no physical contact with merchant point-of-sale terminals, mobile wallets are increasingly viewed as a safer way to pay by consumers around the world. Fears that payment cards, cash and coins may be tainted with the coronavirus, and that touching in-store terminals might make shoppers sick, the use...

Apple Card announced on Friday that its 3% cash-back card-linked offers at Walgreens would also be valid for drive-thru purchases and on purchases made through the drug retailer’s e-commerce site. Because of Covid-19, merchants are seeing a significant shift in sales to online, and away from in-store. CardLinx Insight: Covid-19 has upended many business models—including those related to card-linked offers....

2020’s Silver Bullet for Bank Digital Engagement: Card-Linked Offers If you are a bank serving consumers or a payment card issuer considering ways to drive mobile and digital engagement while adding value for merchants, you are likely considering card-linked offers (CLO). Linking your customer’s mobile app to a payment card or mobile wallet saves consumers money, boosts retailer revenue–and drives...

[image_with_animation image_url=”17815″ animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”] Luxury Retailers Embrace CLO Luxury retailers are adopting card-linking to acquire affluent “big spender” customers around the world. Come meet executives from Harvey Nichols and LVMH’s 24S ecommerce website at CardLinx Europe. Plus meet keynote speakers from Discover, FISWorldpay and Fidel in London at CardLinx Europe- Data Driven Commerce....

[image_with_animation image_url=”17799″ animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”] Apple Card Launches with a Cash Backed Card-Linked Offers Apple launched for all customers in the U.S. in mid August. Customers are able to apply for the card through the Wallet app on the iPhone, available for immediate use through Apple Pay. The titanium Apple Card credit card is...

Facebook’s Instagram Goes Amazon Instagram, Facebook’s photo sharing platform, is enabling consumers to tap and buy products right from the app. Checkout, the new shopping feature, circumvents traditional merchants and allows manufacturers of popular brands to sell direct through the Instagram feed without the user even having to leave the Instagram. Consumers enter their payment card details and billing address...