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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…
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…
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…
60 percent of purchases are paid in cash
money in the till Customers used cash, especially for smaller amounts. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Consumers in Germany still prefer to pay with cash. 59.4 percent of all transactions at the…
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…
Against PayPal and Apple Pay: major US banks are planning their own payment app
Frankfurt Seven major US banks want to launch their own payment app and thus put the payment services PayPal and Apple Pay in their place. Well Fargo, Bank of America,…
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…
Burkhard Balz sees great advantages in the digital euro
Burkhard Balz The Bundesbank board is promoting the digital euro and is counting on all major banks in Germany to go along with the planned European payment system EPI. (Photo:…
Corona pandemic accelerates withdrawal of cash payments
card payment The proportion of card payments is increasing in most countries in the euro zone – including Germany. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt During the corona pandemic, cash payments were downright…
Corona pandemic accelerates withdrawal of cash payments
card payment The proportion of card payments is increasing in most countries in the euro zone – including Germany. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The corona pandemic has accelerated the withdrawal of…
Banks want to equip Girocard with more functions
giro card The Girocard is to receive additional functions. This was announced by the Association of German Banks (BdB). (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt/Berlin Germany’s banks and savings banks are preparing to…
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…
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)…
Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank want to sell shares.
Schufa Schufa was founded in 1927 as a “protection group for general loan security”. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Next chapter in the struggle for the credit agency Schufa: Deutsche Bank and…
Savings banks make their digital Girocard e-commerce-capable
Sparkasse ATMs Only around 50 savings banks can currently offer their customers the new digital payment card. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The German savings banks give their Girocard an additional function:…
Disruptions to card payments could last for “a considerable amount of time”.
Frankfurt “Today only cash payment – cash only!!!”, is written on a note at the cash desk of a Frankfurt dm market. There and also at many other retailers and…
Disruptions to card payments could last for “a considerable amount of time”.
Card payment at a checkout in the supermarket problems indefinitely. (Photo: imago images/photothek) Frankfurt “Today only cash payment – cash only!!!”, is written on a note at the cash desk…