With merchant adoption of contactless payment solutions accelerating due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Incognia, a provider of fraud-detection applications, announced an app Tuesday to detect Quick Response code fraud.  The application uses location behavioral biometrics to create a digital fingerprint for the consumer’s identity. It uses the buyer’s real-time and …

By Brett Petersen, EVP of Sales, GIACT One of the impacts of the Covid-19 outbreak has been an accelerated movement toward digital forms of payment. And, coupled with this movement, massive opportunities for fraud have also accelerated. At the outset of the pandemic, as physical storefronts began to temporarily close, …

The ability of hackers to disrupt connected devices was on display over the weekend with Garmin Ltd., a major purveyor of fitness trackers, smart watches and related tech gear, including products that can make contactless payments, reporting service interruptions that some observers say have been caused by a ransomware attack. …

With trillions of dollars in federal stimulus money sloshing around in the economy to help consumers who have lost their jobs due to Covid-19, fraudsters are ratcheting up their efforts to get a piece of that pie. Two popular plans of attack are imposter scams, where criminals impersonate representatives of …

MagTek Inc. said its Magensa unit launched token technology to make touchless payments easier. The technology enables a merchant to send a payment link containing the token via email or text that allows consumers to pay in a secure environment. MagTek said the technology is available in QwickPAY, the Magensa mobile …

The U.S. Commerce Department’s Census Bureau issued advance estimates for April’s seasonally adjusted retail and food-services sales totaling $403.9 billion, down 16.4% from March and off 21.6% from April 2019.In one indication of the toll the slumping economy is taking on consumers, store card issuer and processor Alliance Data said its overall delinquency rate …

The Internet of Things has always had a gee-whiz factor, but unshowy sectors such as utilities, insurance, and purchases for business and household essentials are leading its payments growth. The Internet of Things seemed to be big even before Silicon Valley techies and their marketing-side allies started using the term …

Citing the risk to their businesses from the coronavirus pandemic, securities rating agency Fitch Ratings revised its outlook to negative for seven publicly traded consumer-finance companies, including American Express Co., Discover Financial Services, and Synchrony Financial.Main Event Entertainment Inc. issued a notification indicating malware collected data from cards used on point-of-sale devices for food-and-beverage and entertainment …

As merchants expect more consolidated services from their point-of-sale systems, payments providers are listening and acting. Merchant processor Shift4 Payments LLC said Tuesday that its suite of restaurant POS systems now has an integration with TakeOut7 Inc., an online-ordering service. This enables orders placed via TakeOut7 to sync with Shift4’s …

Privacy is one of the biggest issues facing payments. Individuals, businesses, and governments confront decisions on how data is gathered, stored and protected, and used. We all generate huge amounts of data every day as we shop online or in stores, browse the Web, or even just move around with …