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March 1, 2013
First Data expands FourSquare specials program

First Data, a provider of electronic commerce and payment processing, announced that it is working with Foursquare to extend its already-successful Foursquare Specials for Credit Cards program to now accept Visa and MasterCard, and most debit cards.

February 21, 2013
Card marketer names new CTO

Brian Michon was named chief technology officer at Cartera Commerce, a Boston-based provider of card-based marketing solutions for merchants, banks and loyalty programs.

February 5, 2013
Target loyalty program comes to Canada

Canadian consumers eager to get their hands on a Target loyalty card can now apply for one.

September 26, 2012
NRF: Swipe fee reform saving up to $18 million per day

The National Retail Federation estimates that U.S. retailers and their customers are benefiting from savings of up to $18 million every day since the implementation of the debit card swipe fee reform.

September 13, 2012
Target extends loyalty program to Canada

Target is bringing its REDcard Rewards program to Canada. The company announced that its Canadian customers will receive an additional 5% off every day when shopping at Target with its REDcard products, which include the Target Debit Card and Target RBC MasterCard.

September 7, 2012
MasterCard acquires rewards provider

MasterCard has acquired Truaxis, Inc., a Silicon Valley, California-based provider of relevant credit and debit card-linked offers to consumers through merchants and financial institutions.

June 11, 2012
First Data: May card spending healthy

A report released Monday by First Data Corp. found that same-store consumer spending by credit, signature debit, PIN debit, EPT cards and checks at U.S. retail locations rose 7% year-over-year.

May 2, 2012
NRF: Swipe fees haven't dropped enough

The National Retail Federation is responding to a report from the Federal Reserve, which revealed that debit card swipe fees collected by the nation's largest banks have significantly dropped since reform regulations took effect last fall.

April 26, 2012
Wal-Mart first-ever retailer to launch online ‘pay with cash’ option

Walmart has launched a “Pay with Cash” service that offers cash payment options for online orders at Walmart.com in the United States.

March 8, 2012
Delivering the right combination of relevance and consumer reach

Why has Google arguably become the most popular advertising platform on the planet, attracting a whopping $36.5 billion in ad spending in 2011? And why has Facebook, with an expected IPO valuation of around $100 billion, become such a juggernaut in digital marketing?

December 20, 2011
The growing trend of mobile payments

Mobile payments provide retailers an opportunity to take advantage of the newest method of payment. The Center of Retail Research recently released some interesting figures, numbers that clearly shows the growing trend of customers using mobile money.

December 19, 2011
Affinity Solutions names VP business development

Affinity Solutions a provider of transaction-based marketing programs for financial institutions and retailers in the U.S., announced that John Brennan has joined as VP business development. 

November 23, 2011
Retailers sue Federal Reserve

A coalition of retail organizations, including the National Retail Federation, the Food Marketing Institute and the National Association of Convenience Stores, have filed a lawsuit charging that the Federal Reserve failed to comply with a new law requiring it to reduce fees bank charge retailers when shoppers use credit cards.

November 2, 2011
RILA responds to Bank of America decision to abandon debit fee charge

The Retail Industry Leaders Association on Tuesday issued a statement in response to Bank of America’s decision to abandon its plan to charge new fees on debit card users.

October 13, 2011
NRF continues fight for swipe fee reform

The National Retail Federation Wednesday said that legislation introduced in the House to repeal debit card swipe fee reform would cost consumers more than $6 billion a year in savings that merchants plan to pass along to their customers.

September 30, 2011
Life’s unavoidables: Death, taxes and bank fees

Reduced fees for debit card transactions go into effect on Monday and the architect of the authorizing legislation, Senator Dick Durbin from Illinois, was feeling a lot of love from a retail industry that's convinced ample justification remains for even deeper fee reductions.

July 5, 2011
NRF: ‘Extremely disappointed’ in swipe-fee regulations set

WASHINGTON  — The National Retail Federation said last week that it is disappointed in the final debit card swipe-fee regulations set by the Federal Reserve.

Under the new rule, the current debit card swipe-fee rate of 1%-2% of each transaction will be replaced with a flat fee of not more than 21 cents per transaction for the nation’s largest banks -- substantially higher than the flat fee of up to 12 cents the Fed originally proposed in December 2010.

March 15, 2011
NRF discouraged by delay of swipe-fee legislation

The National Retail Federation said legislation introduced today to delay swipe fee reform scheduled to go into effect this summer would block retailers from giving discounts to consumers who use debit cards and would cost merchants and the public more than $1 billion per month.

February 28, 2011
NRF to Federal Reserve: Swipe card fee cap doesn't go far enough

The National Retail Federation last week responded to the Federal Reserve's proposal to cap debit card swipe fees at 12 cents per transaction.

January 6, 2011
Transaction marketing reshapes retail in 2011

Transaction marketing gained widespread acceptance among retailers in 2010, as they began to recognize marketing in the electronic banking channel as a far more cost effective way to encourage repeat business, increase the average transaction sizes and drive same-store sales.

October 24, 2010
Kroger to offer rewards card with U.S. bank

Kroger announced that it has teamed up with U.S. bank to offer credit cards and...

October 13, 2010
Target helps cardholders save

Target is offering customers that shop with their Target REDcard to save 5% on nearly...

June 24, 2010
NRF welcomes card swipe fee fix

The National Retail Federation announced that it welcomed a House-Senate conference committee’s decision to include...

May 16, 2010
Walmart MoneyCard users to earn cash back on gas

Walmart announced that when customers use the Walmart MoneyCard to buy gasoline for their vehicles,...

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