Digital Commerce Alliance (DCA) Announces 2022 Board Members Board Includes Industry Leaders from Sam’s Club, Bank of America, Microsoft, Mastercard, VantageScore, Among Others SAN FRANCISO (Feb. 8, 2022)—The Digital Commerce Alliance (DCA) today announced its 2022 board of directors. The global trade association, focused on commerce, card-linking, mobile wallets, and financial data, also released its slate of programming for the...

Top 10 Commerce With a Conscience Companies Selected By Digital Commerce Alliance Inaugural DCA listing published today SAN FRANCISCO (Nov. 8, 2021)—The Digital Commerce Alliance (DCA) today announced its Top 10 Commerce With a Conscience Companies. For the first year ever, the DCA is recognizing leading organizations in the digital commerce, card-linking, mobile wallets, and financial data space who have...

Digital Commerce Alliance Top 20 Women By Digital Commerce Alliance   The world has changed significantly since we last published our annual Top 20 Women in Digital Commerce list. A year ago, uncertainty was the watchword, prompting those in our industry to make shifts needed to manage in a pandemic world. While the risks are not totally behind us, companies...

Facebook Ad Boycott Grows To Include Coca-Cola, Unilever A leading ad agency is asking clients to pull Facebook ads to support a boycott against the company. The move is to protest Facebook’s failure to remove certain hate speech and reluctance to correct US Government statements made using the social media platform. Civil rights groups including the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation...

Mastercard announced its intent to acquire financial technology company Finicity to advance its API and financial data strategy. The acquisition is intended to strengthen the payment card giant’s relationships with consumers and businesses by giving them more control over their financial data. CardLinx Insight: Mastercard’s move to acquire Finicity follows a similar one made by arch-rival Visa when it acquired...

Expect the Unexpected in Covid-19’s Wake In the uncertainty that surrounds the coronavirus, Silvio Tavares, CEO of industry trade association Cardlinx, shared perspectives with member executives around the world. Among topics discussed? Travel’s stalled, with hotel occupancy at just 15% and properties slated to close; credit card use is down, impacting the U.S. and other countries where consumer spending accounts...

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...

CardLinx members including Mastercard, Microsoft and Hilton have all announced negative impacts from the rapidly spreading coronavirus. This week Mastercard revised downward its revenue forecast by 2%- 3%, citing slower cross border transaction growth. Microsoft issued lower revenue guidance due to supply chain disruptions in Asia. Hilton recently temporarily closed 150 hotels in China due the coronavirus. CardLinx Insight: The...

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 confidence. Task force members determined that merchants, mobile apps,...

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...

Leading card issuers, financial institutions, retailers, card link technology and marketing technology innovators came together at CardLinx East to share key industry insights. Leaders from companies including Augeo, Microsoft, GasBuddy, FIS and GetUpside were excited to share how they are using the latest technology to implement online-to-offline commerce. Executives from top companies in attendance included Discover, Hilton, MasterCard, Capital One,...

[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...