While not exploding, Discover’s (DFS) credit card portfolio continues to stay in positive territory. Year-on-year (YOY) growth in the third quarter (3Q/16) was limited to single digits, as delinquency edged upward. Discover’s total revenue rose 5.2% YOY to $2301 million for 3Q/16, compared to $2216 million in the prior quarter and $2188 million for the…
U.S. consumer revolving credit, mostly credit card debt, exploded in November, growing at double-digits annually. While slipping downward over the past three months, consumer credit jumped to a 13.5% annual rate of growth, compared toto a revised +2.9% annual rate in October and a revised +5.1% annual rate in September. Overall consumer credit increased at…
Applied Merchant Systems (AMS) has expanded its senior credit facility with Goldman Sachs and Business Development Corporation of America through a Strategic Transaction with Blue Square Resolutions. Blue Square’s founder, Sabin Burrell, has become a significant shareholder; while also continuing to serve as CEO of BlueSquare. AMS now has 17,500 merchant accounts that contribute over…
Star Micronics is teaming up with seven top payments related software partners at National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show to show-off their latest cool payments products. Partners include: Star Cloud Services, Itemize, Dôr, MoZONE, Thirdshelf, nClose and e-Nabler. Star Micronics has designated a portfolio of printing, secure cash management, and customer engagement solutions for any…
Germany’s Rakuten Deutschland, the eponymous e-commerce platform, is gearing-up to add new payment methods via Wirecard. Rakuten Deutschland is a subsidiary of the Japanese platform Rakuten and is a shop software for merchants and a marketplace for end customers in a single solution which also handles payment processing. More than 7,000 suppliers currently use the…