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PayPal Access Debuts to Streamline User Enrollment on E-Commerce, Mobile Sites
n To use PayPal Access, a site must sign up for a PayPal account but is not obliged to accept PayPal. The new system then gives the site access to some 100 million active PayPal users, who can control how much information they want to share. If a user …
Read More »PayPal Plans to Issue a Card for POS Use Starting First Half of 2012
PayPal Inc., a dominant processor of e-commerce transactions, has made no secret lately of its ambitions to move into the world of brick-and-mortar commerce. The only missing element was a physical token that account holders could use at the point of sale. Now it appears that void will soon …
Read More »Durbin Casts a Wary Eye on Rising Small-Ticket Debit Interchange
U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin on Tuesday said he is aware that new Visa and MasterCard interchange schedules will cause some merchants to pay much more in interchange when a consumer uses a debit card from a big bank to pay for small purchases. Durbin said the Federal Reserve Board should …
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Visa Gives a Push to Prepaid Cards If Visa Inc. could be personified as an illustrious 19th Century editor, he might be saying, “Go prepaid, young man.” The No. 1 payment card network’s interchange schedule effective Oct. 1, the day new federal debit card interchange price controls …
Read More »Strategies: Getting Beyond Square
By Jane Adler Rightly or wrongly, lots of investors are mesmerized by the high-profile startup Square. But it’s not the only newbie transforming the payments industry as venture-capital firms scramble to find the next big idea. Some startup companies get all the attention. The …
Read More »Merchants Zero in on Payments
By John Stewart and Jim Daly Having beaten the banks on debit card pricing, they’re now staking out positions on mobile payments and chip cards. This could be the start of the decade of the merchant in the business of consumer payments. Who controls consumer …
Read More »E-Commerce: The Less Obvious Impacts of Durbin on Bill Payments
By Bill Kinnelly and Anthony James Most of the talk about the Durbin Amendment centers on debit interchange controls, but the sweeping measure must be considered in full and in relation to other costs. As we enter the Durbin Era of debit card processing, much …
Read More »Top-Down Solutions Are Questioned at Fraud-Control Conference
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Read More »Seeking to Boost Conversions, card.io Pushes Card-Scanning for Smart Phones
n The San Francisco-based company, which is aiming its product at developers, in June released an iOS version for Apple Inc. devices. It says the software is now active on 80 applications, with another 750 having registered but not yet gone live. “Getting such a wide variety of apps …
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