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The U.S. is in the throes of adopting chip cards, but the immensity and complexity of its payment card industry ensures the migration to chip cards is no easy task. The biggest issue is getting all merchants on board. By Kevin Woodward Naiveté is not a trait payment card industry …
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Security: Locking Down the Smart Phone
Kevin Woodward Securing mobile payments involves taming a many-headed beast of suppliers, developers, and manufacturers. Imagine creating a mobile-payment service using the latest and most advanced security features, and then realizing that with one download a consumer could sidestep all of that and incur a mobile-payment headache. It’s a very …
Read More »Not Content Targeting Financial Services, Phishers Widen Attacks to New Brands
Online fraudsters are attacking a much wider variety of brands, including grocery stores and Bitcoin exchanges, showing a growing level of sophistication in their efforts to gull unsuspecting customers out of their money, according to the latest quarterly report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group Inc., an 11-year-old organization made up …
Read More »Merchants That Opted out of the Big Interchange Settlement Will Get a Second Chance
Merchants that elected not to take a share of the $5.7 billion settlement to resolve a massive credit card interchange case against Visa Inc., MasterCard Inc. and some banks will be given a chance to opt back into a share of the damages under a plan being crafted by lawyers. …
Read More »Retailer Confidence in Detecting Data-Security Breaches Abounds, But Is It Warranted?
Retailers have a hearty sense of confidence when it comes to how quickly their organizations would detect a data breach, especially one that targets sensitive payment information, finds a survey from Tripwire Inc., a data-security company. In the survey of 154 retail organizations, 60% said their systems could detect a …
Read More »In Wake of Payday-Lender Suit, Holder Makes the Case for Operation Choke Point
Operation Choke Point, a U.S. Department of Justice effort to shut down fraudulent merchants by going after payment companies that provide network access, shows no signs of going away any time soon, despite growing merchant and processor frustration with the initiative. Earlier this month, that frustration gave rise to a …
Read More »Opening Its Developer Platform, SimplyTapp Seeks to Ease Cloud-Based NFC for Issuers
The startup that popularized a cloud-based approach to mobile payments using near-field communication (NFC) on Monday opened to card issuers and mobile-application providers a developer platform that could make it cheaper and easier to include digital cards in mobile apps. The platform, from Austin, Texas-based SimplyTapp Inc., offers tools specific …
Read More »Amazon’s First Smart Phone Harbors a Big Mobile Commerce Promise For the Retailer
Rumors from the past few years that Amazon.com Inc. was building a smart phone bore fruit Wednesday when the online retailer revealed the Amazon Fire, a mobile device built to ease the mobile commerce experience on its Web site. It may herald another way to shop Amazon, but it …
Read More »Estimates Vary, But There’s No Doubt: EMV Cards Soon Will Be in Millions More Wallets
The conversion of U.S. magnetic-stripe credit and debit cards to the Europay-MasterCard-Visa (EMV) chip card standard is about to shift into high gear, and the payments forecasters are busier than their counterparts at The Weather Channel just before a hurricane’s landfall. The EMV Migration Forum, an affiliate of the Princeton …
Read More »Beyond Credit Scores: Affirm Launches Deferred And Installment Credit for Online Sales
Transactional credit providers have been few and far between. Bill Me Later launched 14 years ago and was snapped up by eBay Inc. in 2008. BillFloat Inc. started up four years ago and has changed its name to Better Finance Inc. It’s a challenging business requiring close attention to funding costs and …
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