Re-coupled Debit? The TSYS Hybrid Card

Last week’s announcement by TSYS of its new hybrid card marks the latest application of the decoupled debit technology first made popular by Capital One in 2007 (though arguably pioneered by PayPal some years before in an online, non-card form). In fact, depending on...

Why Debit Cards Aren’t a Product

… and Why ‘Decoupled Debit’ Could Change All That I was fascinated to read that Bank of America is now including debit cards in its card payment business line.  Now, for anyone outside of our payments industry, this sounds absolutely reasonable.  But from inside the...

ACH @ POS

I spoke last week with Elliott McEntee, President and CEO of NACHA about two current issues – NACHA’s reaction to “de-coupled debits” and the progress of the Secure Vault Payments program. Decoupled Debit – Background Decoupled debit...

NACHA Topics Update from AFP Boston

Here’s an update on NACHA topics from this morning’s sessions at the Association for Financial Professionals conference being held this week in Boston. Check to ACH Conversion Some of us in the industry will remember a brief and ill-fated “Check-ACH...