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Payments

By Monica C. Meinert t’s a fairly well-known fact that consumers in the U.S. are increasingly choosing to make cashless payments. Gallup reports that just under a quarter of people (24 percent) make some or all of their purchases with cash, down from 36 percent five years ago. As noncash payments continue to dominate—totaling almost

Economy

New credit card accounts rose 10.7 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2016 to total 87.3 million, according to the latest edition of ABA’s Credit Card Market Monitor released today.

Newsbytes

The Federal Reserve today released a status update on its “faster payments” initiative, reporting progress on five key strategies: stakeholder engagement, faster payments, payment security, payment efficiency and enhanced Fed services.

Cybersecurity

To help bankers educate lawmakers, customers and the public about the growing security benefits of the switch to EMV chip technology in cards, ABA is today releasing a new infographic showing that consumers are “unquestionably safer” than before EMV’s widespread adoption.

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