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Afterpay, the buy now, pay later option from Block Inc., will soon test a new way to use the payment method at the point of sale with a Visa debit card. Meanwhile, rival BNPL provider Klarna AB is ...

Venmo on Monday introduced a new rewards program, Venmo Stash, offering cash back to customers who transact with their favorite brands on the payments app and engage with Venmo’s products. While ...

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A recent court ruling found that the Federal Reserve had grossly overstepped in its implementation of the Durbin Amendment. The resulting changes to interchange fees will dramatically shift the debit ...