Ever since its launch, proponents of Apple Inc.’s Apple Pay mobile-payments service have touted the wallet’s high-tech security features, including tokenization of card credentials, a secure element in the phone locking down those credentials, and fingerprint authentication. But now, only four months after that much-heralded launch, banks that support Apple …

Heaven forbid. Could it be that merchant acquirers pad their numbers about big merchants’ compliance with the Payment Card Industry data-security standard (PCI)? A recent study by the Merchant Acquirers’ Committee, an association of more than 500 acquirers, independent sales organizations, risk managers and other acquiring-industry players, found that the …

ATM deployers still have more than 18 months to get ready for EMV. Will they make it? Credit and debit card issuers are furiously pumping out hundreds of millions of EMV chip cards this year. And stores are busily retrofitting their checkout lanes to accept them. Often overlooked in all …

For breached retailers, responding after the fact is responding too late, say Aaron P. Simpson and Chris Hydak. Incident-response plans should not be static. Rather, they should be living and breathing documents that are tested and updated periodically. It’s clear that cybercriminals have zeroed in on the retail industry, primarily …

Counterfeit fraud on Canada’s Interac debit cards fell 45% to a record low in 2014, and 80% of the fraud happened outside of Canada, according to new figures from Toronto-based Interac Association. The five-year slide in skimming-related fraud coincides with the rise of EMV smart cards in Canada as well …

A new service that integrates Apple Inc.’s Touch ID and Samsung’s fingerprint-recognition technology into a single mobile-payments app says it can help boost conversion, and ease shopping-cart abandonment, for mobile-commerce retailers. Santa Ana, Calif.-based Sekur Me Inc. uses the biometric sensors in Apple and Samsung smart phones to authenticate the …

By Digital Transactions News Staff Gemalto NV, one of the largest manufacturers of SIM cards for mobile phones and a key vendor for U.S. payment card producers as the nation converts to the EMV chip card standard, suddenly has found itself in the middle of a spy scandal involving the …

When Google Inc. launched its Google Wallet mobile-payments service nearly four years ago, it quickly ran into a formidable obstacle: three major mobile carriers, including two of the nation’s largest, wouldn’t let Google Wallet work on their phones. Now Google has finally found a solution, and it’s one that could …

There’s a simple reason why Samsung Electronics America Inc. bought LoopPay Inc.: It wants a “truly digital wallet.” That’s the reason given by David Eun, Samsung executive vice president and head of the mega-corporation’s investment unit, Samsung Global Innovation Center. “We have a shared vision to inspire users to transition …

In the far future, when someone sits down and writes the definitive history of payments (riveting), 2014 is going to be a big year. Bitcoin reached historic highs but then went sideways. We had the introduction of Apple Pay, which was a major step forward for mobile wallets. The sheer …