Small businesses fight credit card swipe fees

Sol Dias Ice Cream, in the Dallas metro area, draws in customers with its award-winning mango sorbet and flavors with a Mexican twist like “tequila” and “queso.” The unique fla...

Disney pressured to replace Michael Froman with Nelson Peltz

Nelson Peltz David A. Grogan | CNBC The proxy battle between Disney and activist investment firm Trian Management LP is heating up ahead of the company’s annual shareholder meeting. Earlier in J...

Bank of America, JPMorgan and other banks reportedly team up on digital wallet to rival Apple Pay

Brendan McDermid | Reuters Several banks are reportedly working on a digital wallet that links with debit and credit cards to compete with Apple Pay and PayPal. According to the Wall Street Journal, t...

Jim Cramer says an ‘obsession’ with mega-cap tech names is overshadowing a bull market

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday said that the carnage in tech stocks is concealing a bull market in other names. “We had a very traditional bull market based on the dollar and interest rates...

Board also light on media experience

Nelson Peltz David A. Grogan | CNBC Disney directors unanimously rejected activist investor Nelson Peltz’s request to join the board this month, in large part due to his lack of media industry e...

Lululemon, Duck Creek and more

A Lululemon store in New York Scott Mlyn | CNBC Check out the companies making the biggest moves premarket: Lululemon — Shares of the Canadian apparel company fell more than 10% after Lululemon lowere...

Visa, Mastercard are ‘great defensive names’ for 2023, but PayPal and Coinbase stocks could be set for a rebound, analysts say

Whether you’re looking to scoop up some beaten-down bargains or trying to play it safe, analysts see potential in the payments sector heading into the new year. With a potential recession on many inve...

Inflation peaked but will remain above pre-Covid levels: Mastercard

Inflation has already peaked, but it will remain above pre-Covid levels in 2023, said David Mann, chief economist for Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa at the Mastercard Economics Institute. “...

Tim Draper predicts bitcoin will reach $250,000 despite FTX collapse

Tim Draper, founder of Draper Associates, onstage at the Web Summit 2022 tech conference. Ben McShane | Sportsfile via Getty Images Venture capitalist Tim Draper thinks bitcoin will hit $250,000 a coi...

Tech can’t find a bottom; industrial, consumer stocks bounce

Lots of companies got clocked last week. We saw weakness in a host of industries everything from media to gambling to cloud computing and software sales. The pain in the technology sector seems to kno...

Travel has edge over shopping this holiday season amid inflation

Retailers have a new threat this holiday season: wanderlust. Americans are returning to the skies, filling hotels, swarming theme parks — and they’re showing a willingness to spend more of their...

Digital bank N26 launches crypto trading service amid bear market

N26 Crypto will let users buy and sell 100 tokens including bitcoin and ether. N26 European digital bank N26 announced Thursday it is launching a crypto trading service, starting with Austria as the f...

Mastercard will help banks offer cryptocurrency trading

A 3D printed Mastercard logo is seen in front of displayed stock graph in this illustration taken September 20, 2021. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Mastercard is looking to bring crypto to the masses by making...

England women’s soccer viewership is soaring. Will sponsorship follow?

Frida Maanum of Arsenal in action during the FA Women’s Super League match between Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur at Emirates Stadium on Sept. 24, 2022 in London. Naomi Baker – The Fa | The...

Visa ‘stands to lose the most’ from Fed’s new debit-card rules, analyst says

Newly solidified Federal Reserve guidelines on debit-card routing could have some impact on the financial performance of payment-technology companies, but the latest rules weren’t as onerous for the c...

Mastercard deepens crypto push with tool for preventing fraud

Mastercard credit cards Roberto Machado Noa/ LightRocket via Getty Images Mastercard will on Tuesday debut a new piece of software that helps banks identify and cut off transactions from fraud-prone c...

GOP attorneys general ask credit card companies to drop gun store code

Fire arms are seen at the Bobâs Little Sport Gun Shop in the town of Glassboro, New Jersey, United States on May 26, 2022.  Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Two dozen Republican attorneys...

Gun law advocates hail credit card code as way to cut down suspicious sales

Fire arms are seen at the Bobâs Little Sport Gun Shop in the town of Glassboro, New Jersey, United States on May 26, 2022.  Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Gun law advocates are praising...

Visa, Mastercard suspend payments for ad purchases on PornHub, MindGeek

Visa and Mastercard said Thursday card payments for advertising on Pornhub and its parent company MindGeek would be suspended after a lawsuit stoked controversy over whether the payments giants could ...

What possible credit-card legislation could mean for Visa, Mastercard — and you

Credit-card companies look to be under a political microscope once again as senators announced a new bill that would target Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, and Se...

These companies hopped on the crypto train when times were booming. Which are exposed in a downturn?

During recent cryptocurrency booms, companies have been quick to jump on the trend, whether by reorienting their entire businesses around the buzzy theme, building meaningful crypto features alongside...

Here’s what’s hot — and what’s not — in fintech right now

There has been something of a rotation out of certain pockets of fintech that were hyped by venture capitalists last year, such as crypto and “buy now, pay later,” and into less sexy areas...

Travel costs are up but travelers aren’t canceling their plans yet

Summer travel talk sure isn’t what it used to be. Rather than sun, sand and surf, many travel discussions now center on inflation, rising fuel costs and flight cancellations, a situation which c...

Crypto threatens safety of payment schemes, Starling boss warns

Starling CEO Anne Boden. Harry Murphy | Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images AMSTERDAM — The boss of Goldman Sachs-backed digital bank Starling has doubled down on criticisms of crypto, calling ...

OnlyFans not seeing Netflix-like slowdown in subscriptions, CFO says

In this photo illustration, the OnlyFans logo is displayed on a smartphone. Sheldon Cooper | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images AMSTERDAM — OnlyFans is not experiencing a slowdown in subscribe...

Checkout.com jumps into crypto with stablecoin payments feature

The logo for payments start-up Checkout.com. Checkout.com AMSTERDAM — Online payments company Checkout.com says it will settle payments for its merchants round-the-clock using stablecoins, making it t...

Binance raises $500 million fund to invest in Web3 startups

Binance is the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, handling $490 billion of spot trading volumes in March 2022. Akio Kon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Binance, the world’s largest crypto...

Flight bookings for leisure and business travel top 2019 levels

For the first time since the start of the pandemic, global leisure and business flights have risen to levels not seen since 2019. That’s according to the Mastercard Economics Institute’s t...

Citigroup shares jump 7% after Warren Buffett reveals a near $3 billion stake in the struggling bank

Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett. Andrew Harnik | AP The 91-year-old “Oracle of Omaha” scooped up Citi shares while they have been underperforming the rest of the financi...

Mastercard tech that lets you pay with your face or hand in stores

Mastercard’s biometric checkout technology lets users pay by scanning their face or palm. Mastercard Mastercard is piloting new technology that lets shoppers make payments with just their face o...

Meta, McDonald’s, Teladoc, Ford and more

Pavlo Gonchar | LightRocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Meta Platforms — Shares of the company formerly known as Facebook surged 17% after reporting mixe...

Microsoft, Visa, Enphase Energy, Boeing and more

Microsoft Corporation headquarters at Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, France, April 18, 2016. Charles Platiau | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Enphase Energy — Sh...