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BY Linda Punch New IRS reporting requirements for processors and merchants take effect soon. The extra work involved is one formidable obstacle for the acquiring business. Another one is the IRS itself. When Congress passed a new law requiring merchant acquirers to report merchants’ electronic-payment …
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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 »Security: Spam’s Merchant-Acquirer Chokepoint
By Peter Lucas Spam e-mail may be a constant irritant to consumers, but it’s big business for merchant acquirers willing to settle transactions resulting from those unsolicited ads. Can anything be done to stop it? Every day some unsuspecting consumer receives an unsolicited e-mail from …
Read More »Endpoint: Two Mistakes in the Mobile-Merchant Market
So far, mobile-acceptance products for merchants have been limited to cards. Meanwhile, entrants in this market from outside the payments business tend to be long on tech but short on security. Both factors spell trouble, says Bill Clark. The skyrocketing popularity of card-based mobile-payment solutions is certainly impressive, …
Read More »A NACHA Proposal, out for Comment, Calls for Networkwide Same-Day ACH
The automated clearing house network took a crucial step toward faster transaction movement last Friday when NACHA, the network’s governing body, distributed a request for comment on a proposal for same-day settlement. NACHA sent the 22-page document, which sets out a proposed system called Expedited Processing and Settlement (EPS), …
Read More »Top-Down Solutions Are Questioned at Fraud-Control Conference
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Read More »With a $1.67 Average Ticket, Vending Processor USAT Predicts Pain from Durbin Rate
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Read More »Applying the Durbin Maximum, Visa And MasterCard Could Squash Small Tickets
It’s back to the future, and in many cases higher merchant-acceptance costs for transactions at or under $15, with the bank card networks’ new debit card interchange schedules that will take effect Saturday. That’s the same date that regulated interchange pricing under the Durbin Amendment to the 2010 Dodd-Frank …
Read More »The Malware Menace Gets More Malicious
n Citing research from three Aite studies as well as interviews with 40 fraud-control vendors, Aite predicts that the amount of malware and losses from it are in for their own boom. Based on data from Panda Security, Aite senior analyst Julie Conroy McNelley estimates that 25 million new, unique …
Read More »Pressing Its Patent, Tiny LML Taps Financial Titans for More Than $40 Million
In the course of a three-year legal war over a patent related to automated clearing house processing, LML Payment Systems Inc. has wrung at least $40.5 million out of some of North America’s biggest financial institutions, including Citigroup Inc., PayPal Inc., and HSBC Holdings PLC, and reinforced its claim on …
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