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1.9KPayment MethodsMastercard: Secure Remote Commerce Will Accelerate Unified Digital Checkout
It’s easy to take for granted how consistent in-store payments with cards have become for consumers; there isn’t a lot of mystery...
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2.8KSecurity & FraudAnother Cloudless Day: IntraNext Software Saves Call Centers From Migrating
Everyone talks about moving to the cloud, and doing so can certainly deliver benefits in a contact center environment. It creates ease...
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3.3KMastercardMastercard And MegaFon Partner For Mobile Pay
Mastercard and MegaFon have introduced two joint initiatives that will allow subscribers to link their mobile phone accounts to Apple Pay or...
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2.5KPartnerships / AcquisitionsUphold Acquires Mobile Payments Platform Cortex MCP
In a move to strengthen its digital money platform with secure payment applications, Uphold has acquired Cortex MCP. Cortex’s CEO and Founder,...
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3.7KBlockchainWill Blockchain Tech Deliver Harmony In Music IP Management?
It’s hard to separate the headlines, sometimes, beyond the vagaries of huge price swings in bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. It’s hard, sometimes, to...
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9.6KSecurity & FraudTokenization: The Security Key For Call Centers
Call centers are fast becoming a fraudster favorite. Why? Because they’re just so darn inviting. Committing fraud over the phone in a...
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5.7KSecurity & FraudTokenization’s Value Beyond Payments
Tokenization is a vanguard in the fight against card not present fraud – but is flexible enough to protect just about any...
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5.7KBitcoinIs Bitcoin An Enron In The Making?
Billionaire investor and Saudi Arabian prince Alwaleed bin Talal dismissed Bitcoin on Monday (Oct. 23), saying on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that he...
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4.9KPartnerships / AcquisitionsMastercard Certifies TCH As Token Services Provider
The Clearing House and Mastercard announced news on Thursday (Oct. 19) that they are partnering to enable The Clearing House (TCH) to...
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3.6KPartnerships / AcquisitionsRambus Brings Apple Pay To eftpos Cardholders
On Tuesday (Oct. 17), Rambus, Inc. announced news of a partnership with domestic Australian debit network eftpos. The collaboration will allow eftpos...
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6.7KPayment Methods
Rambus CTO On Tokenization, Part Deux
The latest iteration of EMVCo’s Payment Tokenization Specification has the potential to change the way we shop – even as it changes...
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5.0KDigital PaymentsMarqeta Simplifies Real World Applications For Tokenized Cards And Digital Payments
The move from plastic to pixels may be a slow one. Changing consumer behavior is no easy feat, as we’ve seen with...
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5.9KMobile CommerceBraintree, Eventbrite Make Concerts And Commerce Contextual
Commerce interrupted is a terrible thing. Consumers miss out and merchants miss a sale. The familiar friction points – typing in 16-digit...
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8.3KMobile CommerceVisa Payments, (Truly) Mobile With Fitbit’s Ionic Smartwatch
Fitbit is debuting its Ionic watch – enabled for Visa payments. And, as noted Monday by the two companies, and as the...
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5.8KPayments InnovationPayments Innovation: Beyond The ‘Wow’
What would you say if someone asked you to name the most important innovation in payments over the last five years? We...
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5.5KMatchmakersVantiv On Attracting And Keeping Developers Engaged
Developers platforms have quickly gone from being cutting edge to being something like table stakes for serious financial technology players, as Karen...
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6.5KB2B PaymentsTSYS Tokenizes Corporate Cards For Mobile Payments
Card processor TSYS is looking to heighten the security of mobile corporate payments. The company announced Tuesday (May 30) that it is...
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3.9KPayment MethodsHelping Specialty Stores Battle Grocery Goliath
Keep up or fall down. The April PYMNTS.com Developer Tracker, powered by Vantiv, features an interview with Burt Aycock, director of Design...
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7.4KPayment MethodsVantiv Inks Deal To Buy Paymetric
Vantiv, the provider of payments processing services and related technology solutions for merchants and financial institutions, announced Tuesday (April 25) that it’s...
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3.5KPartnerships / AcquisitionsFully Tokenized ACH Payment Integration Via Plaid And Dwolla Partnership
Transferring large sums of money typically always poses a risk. This rings true especially in today’s tech-savvy world, where computer hacking makes...
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3.4KB2B PaymentsSwedish Firm Microchips Employees For Payments, Security
With internal security threats leading to significant losses of data and money for the enterprise, businesses are tasked with not only safeguarding...
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2.9KB2B PaymentsDyadic Lands $12M For Enterprise Security Tech
Dyadic Security has announced a $12 million fundraise to boost its enterprise security offerings. The U.S. startup said Tuesday (March 14) that...
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6.1KB2B PaymentsCiti Nixes Physical Tokens For Corporates
Citi is rolling out a new solution that enables corporates to ditch physical tokens when logging onto their business platforms. The bank...
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3.9KB2B PaymentsCardConnect’s Newest Encryption Tool Emerges From Beta
Payment processing firm CardConnect is targeting transaction security with its latest offering. The company said Tuesday (Jan. 17) that it is rolling out...
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6.0KInnovationVisa + Honda Show In-Vehicle Payments
This year’s ongoing Consumer Electronics Showcase has been a non-stop stream of innovation, collaboration and new technologies. The latest in the smart...
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5.0KB2B PaymentsRipple’s Network Used For Token Transfer
Smart Token Chain (STC), a company that explores the use of blockchain for smart contracts, tokenization and other transactions, has announced the...
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1.6KSafety and SecurityeMerchantPay Unveils Tokenization Service
Online payment service provider eMerchantPay recently released details of its new One Time Token (OTT). The token will allow merchants not compliant...
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3.7KSecurity & FraudVisa Delivers Tokenization For The Long Tail
As commerce continues to get more and more connected, reaching even more devices, one of the biggest challenges at hand is ensuring...
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4.8KB2B Payments
DBS Tokenizes The Smartphone For Corporate Payments
Singapore’s DBS Bank is doing away with physical tokens for some corporate payments. Reports on Wednesday (Oct. 12) said DBS is nixing...
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5.2KB2B PaymentsSamsung Goes After Biometrics For Enterprise Banking
Samsung is looking to introduce biometric authentication capabilities to mobile devices, a move that could have significant implications for the enterprise world. Reports...
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6.2KB2B PaymentsSage Hack Should Be Wake-Up Call, Says SaaS Firm
Software company Hypersocket Software is warning businesses that they should pay attention to what the recent data breach at accounting company Sage...
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4.3KB2B Payments
Ping Secures The Enterprise Cloud Migration
Ping Identity has just announced new enhancements to how enterprises can link into the cloud and mobile. An announcement on Monday (Aug....
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Consumer Authentication
The Two Faces Of Digital Identity Authentication
There are two primary concerns in the payments industry’s quest to achieve effective security and fraud protection: businesses’ own data, and the...
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3.9KB2B PaymentsTop Bank Service Tightens Data Aggregation Security
Open Financial Exchange (OFX) is one of the banking industry’s most common APIs, allowing financial institutions to aggregate data and link that...
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EMV
EMVCo Updates Payment Tokenization Specs
The global technical body that facilitates the worldwide interoperability and acceptance of secure payment transactions has upgraded its specs. In a press...
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B2B Payments
Corporates Inch Closer To Biometric Mobile Banking
Wells Fargo piqued the interest of its corporate clients late last year when it revealed it was working on biometric identification technology...
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EMV
Merchant Link Reveals EMV Secret
While the importance of supporting EMV transactions may vary across industries, in certain sectors a new push toward EMV is underway to...
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Internet of Things
Visa’s Payments Security Expands To IoT Companies
Visa is making a move to ensure Internet of Things offerings, ranging from wearables to cars, can embed secure Visa payments. The...
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Payment Methods
Visa Europe Expands Tokenization Service
Visa Europe said Tuesday (Feb. 16) that it has expanded its tokenization service to enable customers in the financial services industry to...
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5.0KB2B PaymentsTurkey Corporates Handed The eBanking Key: QR Codes
Corporations may want the same kind of fast, technologically advanced banking solutions as consumers do, but corporate banking also has more demanding...
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Payment Methods
Visa Checkout Added To Starbucks, Walmart, Walgreens
Visa Checkout, the online checkout option from Visa, just secured two major merchant partners that are adding the online checkout button to...
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B2B Payments
A Trifecta Of Change For B2B Payments
It’s the start of a new year, and innovators are making predictions left and right about what 2016 will bring for FinTech...
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News
MasterPass Reinvents Walmart.com Checkout
Walmart ended the year by announcing Walmart Pay. It’s starting the year with a big move to reinvent the way its customers...
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News
PayPal On How Mobile Gives Commerce Context
It’s becoming increasingly evident that payments, commerce, tech and mobile are colliding at the intersection of innovation, but how those industries will...
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Visa Launches Token Service In APAC
Visa has rolled out its tokenization service in Asia-Pacific. The company announced yesterday (Dec. 14) that Visa Token Service has launched in...
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7.8KKaren WebsterThe Rest Of The Payments 2015 By The Letter: S Through Z
A was for Apple Pay, B was for bitcoin and C was for cross-border. OK, maybe you saw those ones coming, but...
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6.1KNewsWho Will Secure The Internet Of Things?
There will be more than 6.4 billion connected or Internet of Things devices in the next year. These “smart” devices will be...
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B2B Payments
Corporates Take Their First Steps Into Biometric Banking
Anyone doing business with a bank demands security. But in corporate banking, the stakes are often higher, with multimillion dollar transactions that...
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News
Changing The Cybersecurity Conversation
In March 2015, addressing a crowd at Innovation Project 2015, retired four-star General Keith Alexander, the former director of the National Security Agency,...
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3.7KNewsEnabling Payments In An IoT World
Fifty billion points of commerce – that’s the opportunity to expand commerce to places and devices that we can’t even as yet...
