Has The NFC Wallet War Already Been Decided?
May 23, 2012

At popular question-and-answer website Quora, a user asks: Has Google already lost the NFC payment war to Isis? Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to...

ROAM CEO: MasterCard’s Guidelines are Crucial For an Evolving Space
May 23, 2012

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CFPB Proposes Expanding Regulation of Prepaid Cards
May 23, 2012

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says it “intends to issue a proposal” that would expand Regulation E to include general-purpose reloadable, or prepaid, payment cards. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

PwC: For FIs To Succeed, Act Like Tech Startups
May 23, 2012

FIs have traditionally been “slow to react,” Odunuga says, leaving them vulnerable at a time of rapid innovation. Rather than adopting a wait and see approach, Odunuga says banks should leverage their current assets that put them in the lead today “”consumer trust, consumer ownership,...

MagTek’s Hart: With Swipe Readers, Encryption Is “Not Enough”
May 23, 2012

Consumers often say that concerns about security are preventing them from using mobile payment solutions more frequently. So we thought we’d ask an expert, MagTek CEO Mimi Hart: Are swipe readers doing enough about security? Hart tells PYMNTS.com about what really matters in the development...

VeriFone Counters U.S. EMV Skeptics
May 23, 2012

Recently intensified mandates from Visa and MasterCard, combined with multiple successful transitions across the globe, suggest the adoption of EMV will only expand in the future “” and into the United States. But some sticky issues, like concerns about fraud liability and terminal upgrade expense,...

Data & Predictive Modeling
May 23, 2012

An estimated 18.3 percent of U.S. consumers are carrying credit scores above 800, according to FICO Labs, putting them in the highest recognized tier for creditworthiness. Read More Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

Terminals & POS
May 23, 2012

Today, the POS landscape has become a major front in the war for control over customers and merchants in the overall payments value chain. Read More Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

Terminals & POS
May 23, 2012

More than half of all U.S. small businesses — 55 percent, or nearly 15 million firms — do not accept credit card payments, according to the Intuit Small Business Survey. Read More Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...