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Editor's Note: Following are excerpts from news stories recently posted under Breaking Industry About Increasing Loyalty, was based
News on our home page. For links to these and other full news stories, please visit www.green- on a survey of 1,500 loyalty program
sheet.com/breakingnews.php?flag=previous_breaking_news. participants across numerous ver-
ticals, including retail, airline, ho-
tel, food and beverage, online retail,
bank, gym, telecom, and utility sec-
Visa, NFL team up for payments at Super Bowl LIII tors. Researchers found a majority of
respondents redeem small rewards
The Los Angeles Rams will face the New England Patriots for Super Bowl LIII, frequently, cashing out before re-
which is coming up Sun., Feb. 3, 2019, at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. wards reach the $100 mark.
And Visa, a partner of the National Football League since 1995, just renewed
its agreement with the NFL to serve as the league’s Official Payment Services New study spotlights
Technology Partner through the 2025 season. The deal includes new benefits rampant data abuse
for Visa cardholders at NFL events and plans to collaborate on the first cashless
Super Bowl in the future. The alarming acceptance of security
breaches and data abuse as inevitable
NAC kicks off year-long celebration as U.S. ATMs turn 50 is the focus of the Identity Theft Re-
source Center's 2018 End-of-Year Data
U.S. ATMs will turn 50 on Sept. 2, 2019, and the National ATM Council will Breach Report. Published in January
host a series of events leading up to the historic occasion. The not-for-profit 2019 and sponsored by CyberScout,
trade association, established in 2011 on behalf of independent ATM deployers, the report aggregates public data
designated 2019 as The Year of the ATM in America. The year-long celebration breach records to identify emerging
will combine festivities with education. threat patterns. In addition to garden
Researchers note strength in real-time rewards programs variety data breaches, researchers
found widespread data abuse involv-
A study published by Blackhawk Network found growth in real-time loyalty ing users opting in to data mining
programs is largely driven by younger consumers. The report, A Heart-to-Heart entities.

Tide may be turning for
contactless payments

Visa has been promoting contactless
payments for more than 20 years. Ear-
ly tests of contactless payments oc-
curred in sports stadiums and relied
on payment fobs that employed NFC
to support tap-and-go payments. A
notable number of merchants are now
positioned to accept contactless pay-
ments. A survey of small and mid-
sized businesses last year by Paysafe
found 37 percent have technology in
place to accept contactless payments.
CFPB keeps name, aims to
tamp down protections
Consumer advocacy groups are criti-
cizing plans by the Consumer Finan-
cial Protection Bureau to tone down
Obama-era protections against pred-
atory lending practices. The mandat-
ed protections, which became law in
2017 as part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank
Act, required lenders to confirm bor-
rowers' ability to repay loan products.
An additional provision called for a
cooling off period before "re-upping"
serial borrowers with three back-to-
back short-term loans.

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