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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 …
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Top-Down Solutions Are Questioned at Fraud-Control Conference
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What Keeps ATM Execs up at Night? Complying with new Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements and fighting fraudsters who put skimmers on their machines rank high on the to-do lists of ATM managers. The findings come in a new report from Aite Group LLC …
Read More »Security: Why PINs Need Performance-Enhancing Technology
Linda Punch Increasingly sophisticated fraud schemes show that personal identification numbers are more vulnerable than once thought. Bring in the reinforcements. For the past 40 years, personal identification numbers have built an enviable reputation as a nearly inviolable security feature. They’re much more secure than …
Read More »Shazam And Adaptive Payments Unveil PIN-Debit Acceptance on Smart Phones
One week after announcing it is testing dual-message PIN debit, the Shazam debit network said on Tuesday it will introduce later this year a product that will let merchants accept PIN debit transactions on smart phones. The product, developed by Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based authentication-technology vendor Adaptive Payments, comes as networks …
Read More »Diebold Looks To Take ATM Management to the Cloud
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Read More »Visa Tries To Juice EMV And Mobile Payments with New Initiatives
Leading payment card network Visa Inc. on Tuesday announced three initiatives to spur adoption of so-called EMV contact and contactless chip cards and near-field communication (NFC) mobile payments in the U.S. Observers hailed Visa’s action, but noted that a full move to EMV and NFC mobile payments in the U.S. …
Read More »Eye on EMV: UNFCU Study, Aite Survey, Jack Henry Service
n The first U.S. financial institution to introduce EMV cards, United Nations Federal Credit Union, released the results of a study along with Gemalto, the vendor of its cards. The study comes one year after the credit union launched its chip-and-PIN credit cards. As a result of the study, …
Read More »Opinion & Analysis: What Visa Is up to
n by Steve Mott While most observers have viewed Visa’s recent string of acquisitions as a mere broadening of its conventional card franchise, a long-time analyst of the payments business sees a clever play for dominance of the digital future. Just when the U.S. payments industry appears poised …
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