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Visa Inc. and electronic-commerce fraud-control and gateway services provider CyberSource Corp. on Monday introduced an enhanced risk-scoring service for online merchants, the first major jointly developed product from the two since Visa bought CyberSource last year. The service will augment CyberSource’s existing risk-assessment system by bringing in data from the …
Read More »Handsets, Shopping Apps Will Likely Fuel PayPal’s Physical POS Move
PayPal Inc.’s move into the physical point of sale is likely to involve handset-based services that make shopping and buying easier for consumers rather than a direct assault on the checkout counter, according to one expert who follows electronic payments. PayPal will most likely integrate its payments platform with applications …
Read More »Though Disappearing, Substitute Checks Create Opportunity for LPSI
A Dublin, Ohio-based startup is leveraging air-courier logistics and aggregation efficiencies to wring revenues out of a dying business—the so-called substitute check. Liberty Processing & Services Innovation went live only five months ago and is now printing and delivering about 3 million checks a month on behalf of five client …
Read More »Visa Brings P2P Payments to U.S. Cards Via Fiserv And CashEdge
Visa Inc. on Wednesday said it is adding person-to-person payment capabilities to its network and cards so that all Visa-branded credit, debit, and prepaid cards from U.S. issuers would be able to receive P2P payments. The first P2P providers to walk through Visa's new door were bank processor Fiserv Inc. …
Read More »Consumers Are Skeptical of Durbin Benefits, According to Survey
Consumers have few expectations that they’ll benefit from pending debit card interchange price regulations, according to new survey findings from Javelin Strategy and Research. And, with consumers used to free checking and debit cards, banks will need to move carefully if they want to impose new fees to make up …
Read More »Durbin Hits a Snag As a Delay Proposal Emerges in the Senate
The Durbin Amendment, which passed into law within weeks of its introduction in Congress last summer and seemed poised to go into effect in July, hit a stumbling block on Tuesday with the introduction of a bill in the U.S. Senate to delay rulemaking by two years. The legislation, called …
Read More »Despite PCI, a Scanning Tool Finds Widespread Storage of Unencrypted Data
One of the key tenets of the 6-year-old Payment Card Industry data security standard (PCI) is that merchants should never store unencrypted card data in their systems. But data generated from a recent beta test of a new system-scanning tool shows many merchants, knowingly or unknowingly, are violating this basic …
Read More »Operator Creates Marketing Council To Build Awareness of Secure Vault Payments
The operator of the Secure Vault Payments network for online automated clearing house payments said it is creating a marketing council to promote awareness and usage of the new payment system. The council has the endorsement of ACH governing body NACHA, said Denver-based SVP operator eWise Systems USA Inc. Dean …
Read More »Signaling Possible Plans Beyond Credits, Facebook Sets up a Payments Unit
Facebook Inc., a massive social network with more than 500 million users worldwide that is said by some experts to have ambitions in the payments business, has established a wholly owned subsidiary called Facebook Payments Inc. Facebook incorporated the entity in Florida on Dec. 10 and is advertising now for …
Read More »Confusion Forces VeriFone to Pull Skimming Demo As Square Defends Itself
VeriFone Systems Inc. fired a blast at rival mobile-payments provider Square Inc. on Wednesday and sustained some powder burns in the process, but the leading U.S. point-of-sale terminal maker nonetheless may have brought some legitimate concerns about Square’s security into the open, according to at least one analyst. By Thursday, …
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