Payments News & Media
Square begins pre-orders for EMV products
November 12, 2014
Company will release a standalone chip card reader for $29 and a Square Stand accessory for $39.
read nowNCR Silver POS adds bitcoin compatibility
November 10, 2014
Bitcoin support, which will be integrated with NCR Silver by the end of 2014, will be free to merchants.
read nowHome Depot sheds more light on data breach
November 7, 2014
In addition to the payment information already known stolen, the company says the thieves also took files containing 53 million email addresses, but not their…
read nowGivex's Vexilor POS now accepts bitcoin
November 7, 2014
Company announces partnership with Bitpay.
read nowMasterCard to acquire TNS' Payment Gateway business
November 6, 2014
MasterCard will acquire TNS' e-commerce and card-present payment gateways, which will become part of the DataCash payment gateway suite.
read nowTarget appoints Jacqueline Hourigan Rice as SVP, chief risk and compliance officer
November 6, 2014
Rice joins Target effective Dec. 1 and will report directly to Brian Cornell, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Target.
read nowNorth American consumers embrace mobile payments and virtual currency
November 6, 2014
Accenture survey finds that 40 percent of consumers in Canada and the U.S. have used their smartphone to make a payment at a merchant location.
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Six tips for becoming EMV compliant
by Laura Miller — Director of Marketing, Kioware
With the liability shift now less than a year away, it's time for retailers to get serious about their compliance plans.
read nowElectronic gift cards gaining popularity, especially among millennials
November 5, 2014
Fifty-nine percent of gift cards are now offered electronically, up 18 percentage points from 2010.
read nowVantiv prepped to roll out Durbin-compliant EMV card solutions
November 4, 2014
Having completed the first US Common AID-enabled EMV debit transaction with US merchants, Vantiv will begin production of Visa- and MasterCard-certified cards…
read nowFirst Data unveils Clover mobile POS
November 4, 2014
Armed with Clover Mobile, merchants can place orders, take secure payments, scan inventory, clock in employees, sync sales data with their accounting packages…
read nowBitpay intros NFC-based merchant POS app
November 4, 2014
Bitcoin Checkout is available today and can sit alongside existing systems.
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Bitcoin, other virtual currencies are a global reality
by Mark Ranta — Sr. Product Marketing Manager, ACI
Mark Ranta from ACI Worldwide believes bitcoin and its alternatives are here to stay, but how can they be regulated?
read nowStaples investigating possible data breach
October 23, 2014
Has POS malware become an 'easy button' for payment card data theft and counterfeiting?
read nowVisa champions nationwide chip card education campaign
October 23, 2014
The company will work with public- and private-sector partners in an effort to educate merchants, policymakers, civic leaders and consumers about EMV.
read nowJumio intros new scanning tech for mobile retailers
October 21, 2014
BAM Checkout's embeddable product is intended to provide a simple checkout experience by enabling users to bypass nearly all manual key entry when completing a…
read nowHalf of US POS terminals will be chip-enabled by end of 2015
October 21, 2014
Massive data breaches in the past year seem to have prodded retailers to take action to curb their potential exposure to losses from fraud.
read nowMasterCard, Zwipe team up to roll out first-ever biometric contactless payment card
October 21, 2014
Biometric authentication replaces PIN entry, enabling cardholders to make contactless payments in any amount, unlike current NFC-enabled payment solutions.
read nowAlmost half of Americans are likely to avoid retailers affected by data breaches
October 20, 2014
This holiday season, almost half of Americans are likely to avoid shopping at stores that were affected by data breaches over the past year.
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Obama executive order calls for 'BuySecure' initiative
by Suzanne Cluckey — Owner, Suzanne Cluckey Communications
An executive order from the president directs the government to lead the way in securing financial transactions and sensitive data — and in pushing toward…
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