Our Select Members
Merchants
Tech / Fin-Tech
Banks
Payments
Data
Card-Linking
Merchant Best Practices
Using Card-linked Programs To Drive Customer Acquisition And Loyalty
Joey Lewis
Director Financial Partnerships Strategic Initiatives, Hilton
A Merchants Perspective: Card-linking and Beyond
Carolina Paradas-Mandato
Global Affiliate Marketing Manager, Harvey Nichols
Attracting New Customers in the Crowded Retail Marketplace
Gaurang (G-Man) Maniar
Senior Director of Marketing, Total Wine & More
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Who We Are
The CardLinx Forum helps members worldwide drive interoperability and eliminate friction in the card-linking industry.
Since 2014, on behalf of its membership representing 6 million merchants, 1.9 billion payment cards, 200 million card-enabled accounts and 700 million active daily users, the CardLinx Forum has fostered collaboration and development of innovative card-linking services and standards that boost consumer acquisition and loyalty. the CardLinx Forum is a division of the Digital Commerce Alliance (DCA).
Advisory Board
These leaders guide the CardLinx Forum Advisory Board’s mission to foster collaboration and innovation, and drive the development of shared services and standards to eliminate friction in the card-linking and card-linked offers industry.
Katie Kelley
Chairperson; Senior Vice President of Marketing at Figg
Jill Moser
SVP of Personalization & Loyalty, Bank of America
Farrell Hudzik
Executive Vice President, Financial Institutions, Cardlytics
Te Baker
Loyalty Product Manager, Discover
Experiences
Now one of three divisions of the Digital Commerce Alliance (DCA), a non-profit trade association launched in 2020, the CardLinx Forum has focused on advancing card-linking, card-linked offers (CLO) and online-to-offline commerce (O2O) worldwide since 2014.
The card-linking division of DCA, formerly known as the CardLinx Association, offers a host of experiences fostering collaboration and development of services and standards to minimize friction for consumer purchases, including:
The CardLinx Forum, formerly known as the CardLinx Association, offers a host of experiences fostering collaboration and development of services and standards to minimize friction for consumer purchases, including:
Online/In-person Collaborative Conferences
Interactive Webinars
Best Practices / Education
Technical Standards
Certifications
The CardLinx Forum’s parent organization, the Digital Commerce Alliance (DCA), provides additional value to CardLinx Forum members:
Curated Introductions
Online/In-person Collaborative Conferences
Podcasts
News
Market Research
Trade for Good
The Digital Commerce Alliance’s motto is Trade for Good. These three simple words sum up the mission of our non-profit trade association: DCA drives the future of trade and commerce, by making it a more socially positive, more friction-free experience for all parties, including consumers.
We believe that trade can be one of the most powerful forces for good. Our aim is to help merchants, card issuers, payment companies, fin-tech organizations, and consumers benefit in multiple ways from innovation enabled by digital commerce technology.
Members are empowered by DCA—and its 3 divisions, the CardLinx Forum, the Mobile Wallet Forum and the Financial Data Forum—to do all they can to make every aspect of trade good for both buyers and sellers, as well as their companies and the communities they serve.”
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Episode 96: Nudging Consumers Into Retirement Savings and Charitable Giving
This week on Commerce Code we speak with Ramy Nassar, Chief Experience Officer at Olive. Olive lets consumers round up transactions and put the round-up value into their retirement savings, towards charitable giving, or to save for major purchases. We discuss how this helps people reach their financial goals and how it’s all made possible through better technology.
CardLinx Europe Forum
Card-linking & Loyalty: What Drives Interoperability (and Eliminates Friction)?
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022 | Zurich, Switzerland
Card-linked offers and card-linked loyalty program growth is surging, with 35% of respondents to a recent DCA survey reporting 100%+ growth levels in the previous year. Explore forces are at work by merchants, banks and card-issuers vying for consumer market share in increasing card-linking’s popularity.
New Digital Commerce Alliance Annual Study Data Shows Strong Card-linking Growth During Pandemic
The Digital Commerce Alliance (DCA) released data revealing significant industry trends, including those related to card-linking, mobile wallets, and financial data management. Among the global trade association’s findings in its annual study: Card-linking programs top the list of digital marketing tools preferred by respondents, surpassing social media marketing for the first year since the study’s inception in 2016.
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