Data brokers collect an average of 3,000 data segments on nearly every U.S. consumer, says the FTC. And with wearable payment technology comes an entirely new avenue for even more data collection – but at the same time, an increased potential for security breaches. Doc...
Establishing a credit history can be an unexpectedly tricky thing – to get a loan consumers need to demonstrate a past history of managing with debt well. To manage debt well, entities need to extend loans to consumers. Since the inception of credit, the above...
TableSafe is now safe for EMV, with help from Creditcall. The restaurant payment tech company announced yesterday (March 31) that it is partnering with payment gateway provider Creditcall to enable EMV chip card payments and Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE). With the alliance, U.S. restaurants that implement...
The payment services company announced yesterday (March 31) that is launching ProFac Express, a suite of services designed specifically for payment facilitators that provides them with aggregation and traditional payment processing support.
MasterCard’s small business cardholders in the U.S. can now save on more than 20 million products offered on global e-commerce site Rakuten.com, according to a company release. The agreement is through MasterCard’s Easy Savings Program, which provides MasterCard small business cardholders from participating business card...
Big data isn’t always better data. In fact, TSYS’s Sr. Director of Analytics, Todd Doherty, says that focus on big data has just led to “obese data” as technology and tools make more of it available to business users. The cure for obese data, Doherty...
MasterCard announced today (March 30) the expansion of its San Carlos Center of Excellence, as well as the relocation go SVP of Emerging Merchants, Les Matthews, and his team to the West Coast office. Vice President, Worldwide Communications at MasterCard Brian Gendron will also be...
Verifone has reached the cloud. The payment technology company announced today that it is launching Verifone Cloud POS, an Android-based cloud point-of-sale solution for small-and-medium-sized businesses (SMBs). When bundled with Verifone’s mobile terminals and software, the new platform offers merchants turnkey integration, open architecture, value...
Next Saturday (March 28), MasterCard will kick off its third installment of the Masters of Code competition, this time in Singapore. The competition surrounds a series of hackathons where coders engage with MasterCard APIs to create meaningful prototypes that could potentially be used in real-world business...
