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February 8, 2022
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...
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November 8, 2021
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...
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July 30, 2020
US Retail Sales Jump In June (But It Could Be the Last Increase for Some Time) Retail sales were up in May and June as economies reopened. A better-than-expected 7.5% jump in June, following a record-breaking 18.2% increase in sales in May, surpassed economists’ predictions. The rebound occurred after businesses reopened and pent-up demand for retail goods and services came...
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February 28, 2020
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...
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February 27, 2020
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...
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February 11, 2020
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,...
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October 31, 2019
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,...
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February 28, 2019
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...
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October 19, 2018
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,...
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June 7, 2018
CardLinx AI Commerce Forums Launched in the United States, China and Japan for 2018 Forum Keynote Speakers Feature Mastercard, Microsoft, Sumitomo Mitsui Card Company SAN FRANCISCO — June 7, 2018 —  The CardLinx Association today released new data from the 2018 Card-Linking and O2O Industry Annual Survey and announced new groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) commerce forums in the USA, China and Japan. The...
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June 29, 2017
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:...
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