arfrank
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Comment · 7 years ago
It's linked from here: https://bb.visa.com/legal/privacy-policy-opt-out.html
Comment · 7 years ago
Will leave these here, just one small step to help you regain your privacy:
* https://marketingreportoptout.visa.com/OPTOUT/request.do
* https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/about-mastercard/what-we-do/...
Comment · 7 years ago
Anne gave a talk a few years back that was enjoyable and informative for the NSAs position 5 years ago http://longnow.org/seminars/02014/aug/06/inside-nsa/
Comment · 8 years ago
With details found on Reddit https://m.imgur.com/gallery/PuWx39O
Comment · 9 years ago
I’d suggest you look at what we built at Final. Getfinal.com
We took a hard deep look at a massive stagnant industry (credit cards) and use experience and features as differentiators
Comment · 9 years ago
From about a month ago: https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-and-lyft-look-to-hail-cred...
Comment · 9 years ago
Amazon is 4 in every $10 spent online in the US. They have a scale similar to Costco/WM who only got deals for/to break exclusivity. Amazon pays less than 2%, much less depending on card type. Manages fraud to about 6BPS on transactional basis. But the concept of the running a CC is not out of the question, but the economics/complexity don't align yet...
Comment · 9 years ago
It's core to one of the leader's in banking core's new cloud based offerings: https://www.fisglobal.com/Solutions/Banking-and-Wealth/Servi...
Comment · 9 years ago
There are a tons of reasons to keep our signups closed for now. One non-obvious reason to most people is that it costs us money to lend out money to customers. Theres a ton of others we're working on solving in parallel too
Comment · 9 years ago
Email me @ [email protected] I'd love to hear more, if you don't mind. We encourage people to use the physical card and just treat it as disposable if it ever gets skimmed/breached/stolen/lost. We made sure it impacts none of your other relationships :)