January 18, 2011
Data Breaches and eCommerce: Is There Promise in New Prevention...

Click here to download this article as a PDF. Introduction   Despite the recent economic crisis, lagging unemployment and lingering consumer doubts about the economy, one bright spot has persisted...

January 18, 2011
Official Comments on Fed’s Debit Plan from Congress, Credit Unions...

From the Federal Reserve Board: “The Board is requesting comment on two alternative interchange fee standards that would apply to all covered issuers: one based on each issuer’s costs, with...

January 18, 2011
Chase Paymentech Launches Safetech Fraud and Security Solutions

Chase Paymentech, a leading merchant acquirer and payment processor, announces the launch of Safetech™ Fraud and Security Solutions. This suite of services deployed separately or as a group, will ultimately...

January 17, 2011
Transcript: TSYS Execs Discuss First National Merchant Solutions Acquisition

Listen to audio interview DAVID S. EVANS: Hi, this is David Evans from PYMNTS.com. Exciting news today – TSYS acquired the remaining 49 percent interest in First National Merchant Solutions...

January 14, 2011
Report: A Survey of Consumer Payment Choice

This paper presents the 2008 version of the Survey of Consumer Payment Choice (SCPC), a nationally representative survey developed by the Consumer Payments Research Center of the Federal Reserve Bank...

January 12, 2011
First Data and NRF Data Security Study Results

The National Retail Federation, the world’s largest retail trade organization, and First Data Corporation, a global leader in electronic commerce and payment processing, today released results from a research study...

January 10, 2011
Deloitte VP Offers Suggestions for Harnessing Power of Technology in...

Challenges and opportunities presented by new technologies were among the hot topics at this morning’s panel “Consumer 2020: What Lies Ahead for the Retail Industry?” sponsored by Deloitte. Alison Paul,...

January 10, 2011
Heartland Payment Systems’ E3 End-to-End Encryption MSR Wedge

Coalfire Systems — a leading independent Payment Card Industry (PCI) Qualified Security Assessors (QSA) — today released a security assessment validating that Heartland Payment Systems’ E3 end-to-end encryption magnetic stripe...

January 10, 2011
IBM on How to Capitalize on the Smarter Consumer

At one of the first “Super Sessions” of NRF’s Centennial Celebration, IBM‘s Jill Puleri emphasized that while the fundamentals of retail are certainly different from 100 years ago, service still...