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...

Advocacy Groups Call for Facebook’s Break Up Nine advocacy groups have called the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the break up of Facebook in light of its consumer data breaches, especially with Cambridge Analytica. The recommendation includes spinning off Instagram and WhatsApp. The letter urged the FTC to regulate Facebook like a utility given its size, position and influence in...

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...

[image_with_animation image_url=”18520″ animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”]Today CardLinx member First Data announced a new collaboration with Apple that accelerates the expansion and digital transformation of Apple Pay with First Data’s Clover® devices by enabling merchants to offer loyalty, gift, and stored value card solutions through integration with Gift Solutions and the Clover platform. Read full press release below....