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“It’s Woodstock for Payments Geeks”
March 18, 2014

It’s rare that the top innovators in the world meet in one location, but that’s just what’s happening today in Boston, as the Innovation Project 2014 kicks off at Harvard University. Though the media are not invited to attend, PYMNTS.com will provide exclusive coverage of...

Cybersecurity
P2PE PCI Validation Gives Bluefin A Leg Up
March 18, 2014

Secure payment-technology provider Bluefin announced today it became the first company in the U.S. to receive PCI validation for a point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solution. While the PCI Security Standards Council, which provided the validation, has been around for some time, no other company has achieved...

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Welcome to Payments 2.0
March 18, 2014

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eThor Software Hooks Into Multiple Merchant POS Systems
March 18, 2014

Point-of-sale (POS) integration platform eThor provides software that creates a two-way communication between local merchants’ POS systems and user devices. In a recent podcast interview, eThor Founder and CEO Gary Ziegler told Karen Webster, CEO of Market Platform Dynamics, that the company has also built...

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Start-Up Round Up, Who’s Getting Funded
March 18, 2014

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Cybersecurity
New Feedzai Survey Puts The Blame Game Under Review
March 18, 2014

Experiencing a data breach is a bad enough situation, but how consumers view the event can be just as damaging. As such, prevention plays a key role in securing consumer confidence, and just more than half of consumers put that responsibility squarely on merchants, new...

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Inside Chase Merchant Services
March 18, 2014

I had the chance to visit with Mike Passilla recently to get the scoop on the Chase Merchant Services (CMS) Group he leads at Chase and the value it delivers to consumers and merchants. I’ve written before that my view on CMS is that it...

Cybersecurity
Mobile Tokenization Solves Payments Security Woes
March 18, 2014

LoopPay, founded in 2013, is a provider of a mobile wallet solution that currently works for most existing retail locations. LoopPay Chief Technologist George Wallner sat down with MPD CEO Karen Webster to  explain why he believes Loop is not only a technology breakthrough but...

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For Feedzai’s Sebastiao, Space Work Turns To Fraud Detection
March 17, 2014

In January, Feedzai launched in the U.S. a fraud-prevention solution available for omnichannel commerce. Founded by aerospace engineers and data scientists, the company provides a means by which merchants, processors and other organizations may use Big Data to anticipate and detect fraud earlier. Get the...