Bluefin Payment Systems LLC expects its deal with processor Moneris Solutions Corp. will significantly streamline Canadian merchants’ payment card security through what the parties say is an enhanced point-to-point encryption solution. Under the terms of the deal, announced last week, Moneris will include point-to-point encryption (P2PE) capabilities in Bluefin’s PCI …

The switchover of gasoline stations in the United States to the EMV chip card standard has been a work in progress, but now products are emerging that can secure card data at the pump through a technology known as point-to-point encryption. Payments provider ACI Worldwide Inc. early Tuesday said it …

Bluefin Payment Systems LLC said several devices were added to its PCI-validated point-to-point encryption listing.Forte Payment Systems, a unit of CSG International Systems Inc., launched BillPay, a billing product that features security enhancements, the ability for users to pay online, via kiosk, or in person, and other enhancements.Installment-payment specialist Splitit Payments Ltd. said …

Thales’s proposed all-cash acquisition of rival Gemalto received merger-control regulatory clearance by the European Commission. Effective immediately, the clearance is conditioned on Thales’s agreement to divest its general-purpose hardware security modules business worldwide. The deal still must clear regulatory hurdles in five other countries, including the United States. Bluefin Payment …

When security managers and executives gather this week for the PCI Security Standards Council’s annual North America Community Meeting, one of the topics sure to be on their minds is point-to-point encryption (P2PE) of payment card data. The Council reported Friday that it plans to issue a new version of …

Widely touted as a potent data-masking tool, encryption has been slow to take hold in the payments industry, despite a continuing plague of data breaches. Here’s what’s going on to change that. Kmart, Arby’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, Hyatt Hotels.  Those are just some of the merchants that reported data breaches …