News

May, 2014

• 6 May

  U.S. Readiness for EMV at a Low Ebb Despite Looming Deadline, Report Warns

  By John Stewart With a crucial deadline looming in 2015, the U.S. payments industry will have only partially converted to the Europay-MasterCard-Visa (EMV) chip card standard by the end of that year. Indeed, it will likely take years to equip small merchants especially to accept EMV, according to a report …
• 1 May

  CEO Says ‘Singles And Doubles’ Are Helping MasterCard To Win New Business

  Despite the impending loss of consumer payment cards from mega-bank JPMorgan Chase & Co., MasterCard Inc. is winning new business from U.S. card issuers, its top executives said Thursday at the No. 2 payment card network’s first-quarter earnings call. U.S. credit card purchase volume grew 8.1% year-over-year to $138 billion …
• 1 May

  With 2Checkout Enabling International Payments, Shopify Hopes To Keep Its Growth Going

    Shopify Inc. can eliminate learning new languages from its list of objectives. The online-commerce company announced this week it was adding 2Checkout’s payment technology, which processes payments in 26 currencies in 196 countries, to its POS software. The move does not displace the back-end payment-processing compact between Shopify and …

April, 2014

• 30 April

  First Data Reduces Loss Despite Merchant-Acquiring and Debit Card Headwinds

  Leading payment card processor First Data Corp. on Wednesday reported it lost less money in the first quarter than it did a year earlier despite price compression in its merchant-acquiring business and slow debit card transaction growth. Atlanta-based First Data typically posts an operating profit but a net loss after …
• 29 April

  Host Card Emulation Takes Another Step with Key Sequent Software Issuance Solution

  Sequent Software Inc. on Tuesday launched a solution that will let card issuers take advantage of so-called host card emulation, a protocol that allows issuers to provision digital cards for mobile payments while bypassing the phone-based secure element. With the new solution, issuers will also be able to embed their …
• 29 April

  Target Opts for MasterCard’s Chip Technology for All of Its Cards And at the Point of Sale

  Target Corp. is making good on its plans to accelerate chip-and-PIN payment card technology in its stores and among its customers with Monday’s announcement that it will move its entire Redcard credit and debit card portfolio to cards that use MasterCard Inc.’s chip-and-PIN technology. Most of Target’s cards, however, will …
• 29 April

  PayPal Enjoys Another Strong Quarter, Though eBay Boss Says Little About Offline Growth

  EBay Inc.’s first-quarter conference call Tuesday was as remarkable for what chief executive John Donahoe did not say as for what he did say. Asked by a stock analyst for an update on PayPal Inc.’s move into physical stores, Donahoe added little to what eBay and its PayPal unit have …
• 24 April

  Chirrpy’s Mobile Ticketing Service Eyes ISO Sales Channel To Reach New Merchants

  Independent sales organizations and acquirers considering mobile ticketing as a value-add service to sell to merchants have a new option. n The service works like this. Merchants use a Web portal to set up their events, including details about the name, Web site, times, available tickets, and pricing. Chirrpy also …
• 24 April

  Vesta Debuts New Gateway for E-retailers in Advance of Expected Jump in Card-Not-Present Fraud

  Card-not-present merchants contending with the double-digit growth of e-commerce and mobile commerce often face more exposure to fraudulent transactions. Vesta Corp., an Alpharetta, Ga.-based payments-security company, says its new payment gateway vSafe can help reduce that fraud. n The gateway relies on data from more than 1 billion transactions made …
• 24 April

  PayPal Recruiting More Resellers Among ISOs, Acquirers, ISVs, VARs for M-Commerce Push

    PayPal, the payments arm of online marketplace eBay Inc., has put out a call for more resellers, including independent sales organizations, acquirers, independent software vendors, and value-added resellers. PayPal, which has set up a dedicated Web page soliciting partners, says its ideal partners include “folks that share a similar …