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Miles & More, Amazon and Apple – What is changing with bonus credit cards
Lufthansa credit cards Miles & More From mid-2025, Miles & More credit cards will no longer be backed by DKB, but by Deutsche Bank. (Photo: imago/Rüdiger Wölk) Frankfurt The bonus…
Deutsche Bank wins award for Miles & More credit cards
Lufthansa Miles & More membership cards and credit cards From mid-2025, Miles & More credit cards will no longer be backed by DKB, but by Deutsche Bank. (Photo: imago/Rüdiger Wölk)…
Deutsche Bank wins award for Miles & More credit cards
Frankfurt Probably the best-known credit card with a bonus function in Germany, the Lufthansa Miles & More Credit Card, is changing banks. From mid-2025, Deutsche Bank will issue payment cards…
What will change for bank customers?
card payment Newly issued giro cards will soon no longer have a Maestro function. (Photo: IMAGO/Shotshop) Frankfurt Consumers in Germany are increasingly paying with the Girocard, better known by its…
What will change for bank customers?
card payment Newly issued giro cards will soon no longer have a Maestro function. (Photo: IMAGO/Shotshop) Frankfurt Consumers in Germany are increasingly paying with the Girocard, better known by its…
The benefit of the digital euro is small, the effort immense
Economy, Euro symbol at Willy Brandt Platz The euro may also be available as a digital currency in the future. Many details in the considerations are still open. (Photo: Blatterspiel/Jan…
Banks will continue to issue Girocards with a Maestro function for the time being
The Maestro logo can still be found on many Girocards Mastercard is phasing out the Maestro feature for international payments. The banks have to convert their Girocards from July, Deutsche…
Around 15 million Girocards will be able to go online
savings bank Six savings banks have already started or completed the conversion to Girocards with an additional Mastercard function. (Photo: SZ Photo) Frankfurt In the next six months, many Sparkasse…
14 million Visa debit cards in Germany
Visa logo Banks in Germany have issued 14 million Visa debit cards. (Photo: imago images/Silas Stein) Frankfurt The US payment group Visa has almost tripled the number of its debit…
Payback, Deutschlandcard and Co. bring customers hardly any savings
Payback use at Rewe An evaluation of receipts shows that customers benefit little from the bonus programs. (Photo: imago/Arvid Müller) Dusseldorf Retailers promise customers lucrative deals with their bonus programs…
Some savings banks already exchange Girocards
This does not turn the Girocard into a credit card, it remains a debit card, so payments are debited directly from the account. But online shopping still works. The same…
Some savings banks already exchange Girocards
This does not turn the Girocard into a credit card, it remains a debit card, so payments are debited directly from the account. But online shopping still works. The same…
German consumers prefer not to pay by smartphone
Pay by smartphone Most consumers in Germany still prefer cash payments. (Photo: E+/Getty Images) Frankfurt Even four years after the launch of Apple Pay in Germany, only a fraction of…
Visa terminates credit card program with FTX
FTX logo Investigations are underway against the crypto exchange. (Photo: IMAGO/Zoonar) new York The world’s largest payment processor Visa is ending its global partnership with insolvent crypto exchange FTX. “We…
Mastercard & Visa attack the Girocard in Germany
giro card Around 100 million Girocards (“EC cards”) are in circulation. In many cases, there are changes to international payments because Mastercard’s Maestro function is being phased out. (Photo: dpa)…
US judge insists on visa’s central role
Visa card In a lawsuit against Pornhub, the focus is on the credit card provider. (Photo: AP) Denver A US judge puts Visa at the center of a lawsuit against…
US judge insists on visa’s central role
Visa card In a lawsuit against Pornhub, the focus is on the credit card provider. (Photo: AP) Denver A US judge puts Visa at the center of a lawsuit against…
The best free credit cards 2022 in comparison
Frankfurt If you open a current account at a German bank, you often no longer receive a classic credit card. Instead, there is a so-called debit card. It looks confusingly…
How savings banks and Volksbanks ensure foreign payments
Frankfurt Savings banks and cooperative banks want to equip the popular Girocard, formerly known as the “EC card”, with a new function on a large scale. This is how you…
Unionpay as a way out for Russia’s banks?
Unionpay With a transaction volume equivalent to around 150 billion US dollars, Unionpay was the second largest payment network in 2020. (Photo: Reuters) Beijing After the withdrawal of Mastercard and…