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Fraud-related expenses for merchants are rising as a percentage of revenues, and merchants now spend 10 times as much preventing fraud as they lose to chargebacks, according to new findings from Javelin Strategy & Research. Pleasanton, Calif.-based Javelin says its June study of 497 e-commerce merchants found that merchants in …
September, 2017
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22 September
Checks Still Have Life in Them, But Do Banks Hold the Key to Killing Them off?
For years, experts have predicted electronic payments would finally turn the check into an historical artifact. But data released last year indicate that the long-term decline in check volume has slowed, and now experts are trying to figure out why and what the ultimate check-killer will be. When the Federal …
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22 September
BluePay To Offer Datacap Product and other Digital Transactions News briefs
Payments provider BluePay Processing LLC said it will offer TranCloud, an EMV-enabled payments application from Datacap Systems Inc., to merchants. ATM network operator Cardtronics plc said the Speedway convenience-store chain added ATMs at 1,500 stores in eight states to Cardtronics’ Allpoint Network, which means that all 2,550 ATMs in 20 states where Speedway operates …
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21 September
Only a Year After Admitting Credit Cards, Aldi Says It Will Accept Contactless Payments
The Aldi Inc. supermarket chain, which only last year began accepting credit cards, said in a press release on Thursday it now “accepts all forms of contactless payment,” including Apple Inc.’s Apple Pay and Alphabet Inc.’s Android Pay mobile wallets. The Batavia, Ill.-based company has already activated contactless payments chainwide, …
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21 September
Gemalto: Records Compromised by Data Breaches Rise 164% in Six Months
Payment-security technology provider Gemalto NV reported Wednesday that, around the world, some 1.9 billion records were compromised by data breaches in 2017’s first half, up 164% from 721 million records compromised in the last six months of 2016. The outlook for 2017’s second half is grim in light of the …
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21 September
ThreatMetrix ID Debuts As a Service to Help Businesses Identify Digital Users
Risk-management firm ThreatMetrix Inc. said its ThreatMetrix ID product, announced this week, uses unique, anonymized customer data to help businesses make decisions about trust and identity. The product, hailed as the company’s flagship, incorporates four central capabilities. One is the unique, anonymous data it has on 1.4 billion users in …
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21 September
48% Don’t Use Mobile Wallets and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/21/17
Some 48% of surveyed U.S. consumers don’t use Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay, Venmo, or Bitcoin and 46% say not enough places accept these payment methods, according to invoicing and payments firm Viewpost, which canvassed 1,000 people. Mobile-payments provider LevelUp announced a link to delivery.com, which serves more than 12,000 restaurants. The connection …
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20 September
Apple’s Big Job: Getting iPhone Users Comfortable With Facial Biometrics
A large portion of Apple Inc.’s customers spurn facial biometrics, a key security element in Apple’s new iPhone X, according to new research. Survey results from United Kingdom-based Juniper Research say that more than 40% of users of Apple’s mobile devices in the U.S. consider themselves unlikely to use facial …
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20 September
The Debit Card, Long ‘the King of Payments,’ Finds Itself Under Siege, Expert Says
For decades, debit cards have been reliable revenue generators and relationship builders for financial institutions of all sizes. But now that bulwark for banks is under threat from multiple alternatives, putting financial-services executives on the defensive and forcing them to rethink their card strategies, argues a new paper out this …
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20 September
Bluefin in POS Software Deal and other Digital Transactions News briefs
North American Bancard said it will offer its PayAnywhere 2-in-1 Bluetooth Credit Card Reader free to new PayAnywhere merchants. Payments encryption company Bluefin Payment Systems said its services are available to users of NeuLion, software used by college-ticketing organizations. POSDATA Group Inc. said its Louisville, Ky.-based facility has been point-to-point key injection-certified by the …
