VantageScore is in the movie business. Specifically, it’s in the consumer-education video business. Yesterday (May 21), VantageScore Solutions — the independently managed company that owns the intellectual property rights to the VantageScore credit scoring models — launched a series of consumer-education videos entitled “Street Credit”. As...
Verifone has been put to the fire, as it were, and emerged secure. The payment transaction company announced today (May 20) that its end-to-end encryption and tokenization solution has passed an assessment by Coalfire Systems, a Payment Card Industry Qualified Security Assessor (PCI QSA). According...
MasterCard has entered the realm of real-time payments.The payments technology company today launched MasterCard Send, a personal payments service that enables funds to be sent quickly and securely to customers domestically and internationally.
We’re now nearly midway through 2015, and payment security still remains a topic that stirs up great concern and confusion across North America. And while there is seemingly unanimous agreement on the need for heightened security, there’s uncertainty about those who are tasked with actually...
The last six months have been rather busy for EVO Payments International, as its been leveraging strategic alliances with giant bank players like the Bank of Ireland and Raiffesen Bank, and taking on M&A opportunities to quickly expand across the European market. MPD CEO Karen...
MasterCard announced that it has launched the latest version of its professional site, Business Network 2.0. According to a company release, the new site is built on feedback from hundreds of small- and mid-sized businesses looking to minimize costs, get more out of a day’s...
With the EMV mandate fast approaching, a worrying number of small businesses are unprepared to make the change. MPD CEO Karen Webster recently spoke with Shan Ethridge, VP and GM, North America Financial Services Group, Verifone, to get an understanding of why EMV readiness...
Joe Majka, Chief Security Officer at Verifone recently shared his thoughts with PYMNTS on the future of protecting payments: who is most vulnerable to data breaches (and why), and what types of adjustments merchants can make to help “change the game.”
Since becoming the CEO of Creditcall in 2014, Lars D. Pedersen has been on point to drive the global payment company’s expansion in the United States. Pedersen recently shared with PYMNTS some of his observations related to that ongoing process – what’s working, what still...
