How’s this for a little good news this holiday shopping season. Merchants report that conversions are up, order rejections are down and fraud losses are stable – even down a smidge in the mobile and web store categories. In fact, CyberSource’s 2014-15 Online Fraud Benchmark...
Although it’s hardly unusual for large companies to hire former cyberthieves—even convicted ones—to test security defenses, a U.K. study has found the effort increasingly common due to a shortage of security professionals with experience breaking into secure systems. Sometimes apparently, it really does take a...
Managing the “dozens of ACH islands” that exist around the worldwide in order to pay hundreds or even thousands of payments to suppliers is typically time consuming and expensive. But that’s exactly the problem that Chen Amit, set out to solve four years ago when...
Global provider of integrated payment solution Paymetric drives over $30 billion worth of payments, the company said in a recent interview with PYMNTS. Paymetric aims to help others accept, secure and optimize payments, expediting the order-to-cash process – but it’s not the only player in...
Consumer fears about beacons and privacy will evaporate as beacons become part of everyday life, panelists said at the M1 Summit conference in San Francisco on Thursday (Nov. 13), according to VentureBeat. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
The PCI Security Standards Council has done a breakdown of how recent high-profile security breaches have occurred, and how merchants of all sizes can defend against the risk of being hacked, Payment Week reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
Contrary to recent inviting signals from Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, executives with MasterCard and Visa are finding it increasingly difficult to get permission to do business in China. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
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The ever-evolving payments environment makes it more challenging than ever for payments professionals to keep up, says Adrian Brown, Director of Education at The Payments Authority. PYMNTS recently sat down with Brown to get his views on the role of continuing education for payments professionals...
