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
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 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...
December 12, 2010
Is the PIN Mightier Than the Sword in Fighting Fraud?
Introduction Nothing is more important to the future of electronic payments than maintaining consumer trust and, in particular, consumer confidence that sensitive financial information will remain secure. To preserve that...
November 23, 2010
The Evolution of eCommerce, Innovation and Competition
PYMNTS University‘s Tim Attinger writes that commerce facilitation engines have evolved from basic merchant checkout functions and simple wallets into commerce generators, identifying consumer demand and driving purchase traffic and...
November 09, 2010
Payment System Under Attack? Solutions Found in Georgia!
I spent Monday at the inaugural FinTech 2010 event in Atlanta, Georgia. Launched recently under the auspices of the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), TAG Fintech is a new society...
March 12, 2010
Perhaps It’s Time to Mothball the Mighty Mag-Stripe?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A Martian travels to Earth and examines the U.S. payments system. He is perplexed by the dogged persistence in using a 40-year-old technology...
March 12, 2010
PCI Compliance: To Whom Are You Compliant?
A few years ago, in response to a growing number of data security breaches, the major credit card brands formed the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC). Since...
March 12, 2010
Risk & Fraud
PCI Compliance: To Whom Are You Compliant?A few years ago, in response to a growing number of data security breaches, the major credit card brands formed the Payment Card Industry...
