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...

Capital One, JCB, Yahoo! Japan and Dentsu Join The CardLinx Association SAN FRANCISCO — Aug. 2, 2017 —  The CardLinx Association (“CardLinx”), the authoritative voice for the global online-to-offline (O2O) and card-linking industries, today announced new members including Capital One, JCB, Yahoo! Japan and Dentsu. These companies join existing CardLinx members including MasterCard, Discover, Microsoft, Facebook, Samsung Card, Rakuten, Hilton,...