Figg Uses CLO to Help Consumers Brave Recession Augeo, a St. Paul digital engagement company and card-linked technology provider to banks, announced it has acquired Empyr, the San Diego-based company that powers the Yelp card-linked offer program, among other leading publisher platforms. The two Cardlinx members will do business as Figg, with more than 60 million linked cards and $300...

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...

Augeo announced today that it will acquire fellow CardLinx member Empyr. The deal terms were not disclosed. Augeo is a leading digital engagement company and card-linked technology provider to banks. Empyr powers the Yelp card-linked offer program, among other leading publisher platforms. The new company will be called Figg and will have more than 60 million linked cards and $300...

2020’s Silver Bullet for Bank Digital Engagement: Card-Linked Offers How do the best companies in the world build digital trust and data confidence with consumers? They do it by adhering to these 7 straightforward data best practices. CardLinx, a multi-industry trade association, recently completed a 1.5 year study and task force to identify key factors driving digital trust and data...

Technology companies providing card-linking solutions are enabling widespread adoption of card-linked programs. Increasingly retailers/merchants, financial institutions, card issuers—and consumers—are counting on innovative platforms now available to help card-linking grow. The CardLinx Association is a non-profit trade group with members in 17 countries and on four continents (www.cardlinx.org). Members include Microsoft, Rakuten, Samsung, UBS and RBC to name a few. CardLinx...

The Wall Street Journal reported that CardLinx member Groupon may be near a deal to acquire local listing app Yelp. According to the report, “A combination would create an online marketplace in which merchants could offer deals and customers could read reviews, make reservations or purchase goods or services.” CardLinx Insight Groupon and Yelp are two of the largest US...

SAN FRANCISCO — February 28, 2019 — The CardLinx Association today announced its 2019 board of directors including Microsoft, Rakuten, Sumitomo Mitsui Card Company, Mastercard, Discover, First Data, FIS, Transunion, Augeo, Affinity Solutions, Fidel, and Empyr. Board members are elected for one-year renewable terms and represent the leading global merchants, banks, data and technology companies, payment companies and fin-tech/ad-tech companies. The CardLinx...

It is the first annual CardLinx O2O Awards recognizing outstanding achievement in the online-to-offline (O2O) industry.Help us select the vanguard of this dynamic, expanding and transforming ecosystem by casting your vote in these four categories. And the nominees are… Founder’s Award This award recognizes outstanding achievement and service to the card-linking and online-to-offline industries. Nominees must have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to...

The CardLinx West Forum on Tuesday, October 15th in Seattle demonstrated the expansion of the card-linking ecosystem across a variety of industries. Steve Sirich lead the presentations with Microsoft’s approach to integrating artificial intelligence into all their products to improve accessibility and productivity at work and at home. The diversity of card-linking platforms was on display with presentations by myGini,...

The CardLinx West Forum in San Diego on April 10th was filled with high energy, powerful online-to-offline insights, and extensive networking. The forum focused on “The Ecology of One” and the impact of artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing on the future of retail. The exciting day was filled with news about new forms of digital payments, APIs, and data analytics...

CHAIRPERSON: STEVE VANFLEET, PRESIDENT OF AUGEO FINANCIAL SERVICES PARTICIPANTS CardLinx’s CLO Debit Work Group convened a meeting on June 20th in San Bruno, California. The productive meeting included a name change from PIN Debit Work Group at the request of the debit networks. The meeting included in-depth discussions by publishers, issuers and debit networks on how to accomplish their mission:...