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3.4KSecurity & FraudReport: 91 Pct Of Retailers Aren’t PCI Compliant
With retailers struggling to get compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, qualified security assessors are going to be in more...
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3.3KB2B PaymentsHow Vendors Can Lower The Cost (And Risks) Of Card Acceptance
With payment bigwigs like Visa, Mastercard and American Express pushing further into the B2B payments space, commercial card adoption is being driven...
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3.4KRegulationTokenEx On PCI Scope Creep And Getting Into GDPR Gear
PCI compliance is vitally important for businesses that process credit cards. The standards put forth by the PCI Security Standards Council – the...
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4.2KSecurity & FraudVisa’s Expanded Token Services Partner List Now Includes Amazon
Call it the week of tokenized credentials on file, the week of EMVCo and the week of SRC. As noted in these...
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4.2KVISAVisa B2B Biz Nears The Trillion-Dollar Mark
Double-digit growth marked Visa's key metrics in the latest quarter, from processed transactions to cross-border activity. Management pointed to performance and potential as...
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3.1KVISAVisa Announces Continued Support For EMV Secure Remote Commerce Specification
Visa, the payments company, announced Tuesday (Oct. 23) that it continues to support the draft of the EMV Secure Remote Commerce (SRC)...
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2.4KNewsFive At Five: Facebook Wants To Buy More Cybersecurity
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes the latest way that...
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3.5KMastercardMastercard On Why It Supports EMV Secure Remote Commerce Specification
Mastercard, the digital payments company, made the case in a blog post Monday (Oct. 22) on why it supports EMVCo’s release of...
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4.6KSizzle/FizzleeBay, Amazon And eTail’s Royal Rumble
To steal a phrase from the movie Network, eBay is mad as hell, and is not going to take it anymore. The target...
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4.4KMastercardMastercard Digital Commerce Suite To Make Every Card ‘Token Ready’
Mastercard said Wednesday (Oct. 17) that it will enable tokenization services on all cards by 2020, as part of its Digital Commerce...
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7.3KDigital PaymentsVisa Adds 20 Partners To Fast Track ‘Credentials On File’ Tokenization
Visa announced today the commercial expansion of its Visa Token Service for “credential-on-file token requestors.” This expansion involves adding 20 acquirer gateway...
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2.8KDigital BankingOndot On The Real-Time Data Future Of Financial Services
People love mapping apps for three reasons: They completely, and correctly, plot the best route from Point A to Point B. They...
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3.6KDataHow Cutting-Edge Tokens Can Help Retailers Find More Profit In Data
Data is one thing — a valuable commodity that makes information the oil of the digital age. However, keeping track of data...
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4.3KB2B PaymentsWEF Throws Weight Behind Blockchain For Trade Finance
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has thrown its support behind blockchain technology to expand trade finance availability across the globe, touting the...
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5.5KVISAFrom Startup To Global Payments Giant: Visa Turns 60
Sixty years ago today (Sept. 18), a San Francisco startup launched by sending roughly 60,000 credit cards to consumers living in northern...
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2.1KDataTokenEx Uses Multi-Variant Tokenization To Streamline Data Flows
Keep it simple. That guidance, handed down by parents since cavemen days, also applies to the cutting edge of digital data technology...
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2.5KToday In DataToday In Data: Tapping Into The Tokenized Future
While the “mobile everything” future has been long predicted, as of the second half of 2018, we are actually beginning to see...
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9.0KPayments InnovationNew Podcast: Rambus CTO On Securing Remote Commerce And Ditching The Friction
As Sam Cooke sang: “It’s been a long time comin’ … but I know a change is gonna come.” Commerce changes slowly,...
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2.2KPayments InnovationThe Opportunity Amid Tokenization’s Deluge
Tokenization is a buzzword within payments. And as commerce becomes ever more mobile — connecting devices in store, online, or an amalgamation...
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5.3KPayment MethodsMerchants And Tokenization’s Sea Change
Merchants must manage billions of tokens – easier said than done. Nitin Prabhu, PayPal’s senior director of issuance, tokenization and loyalty platform, offers...
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2.9KSecurity & FraudTokenEx Launches Multi-Variant Tokenization
Data protection platform TokenEx has announced the launch of Multi-Variant Tokenization, a proprietary technology created to enhance how businesses operate and interact with...
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6.7KDigital PaymentsBrowser Or Buy Button? W3C’s Jacobs On The Payment Request API
Native apps are boring and the web is not dead, said Sir Tim Berners-Lee in November of 2014, on the 25th anniversary...
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3.7KDataMoving Beyond Tokenization’s ‘Automagic’ Buzz
Beware complacency in anything, but especially in data security. Technology has a way of lulling people into a false sense of security,...
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2.1KB2B PaymentsGoogle Says Employee Security Key Program A Success Against Phishing
Google has claimed a success in its fight against employee phishing scams, telling reporters that none of its more than 85,000 employees...
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4.9KRisk ManagementHow Dallas Cowboys’ Lewis Neal Wants Companies To Tackle Data Security
From blocking and tackling on the gridiron to blocking and tackling Internal threats and hackers – and quantum computers? HyperSpace board member...
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4.2KDataWhy Tokenized Data Remains Vulnerable
Beyond the buzzword that is tokenization, the reality is that replacing sensitive data with unique identifiers is not the bulletproof method that...
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5.1KRisk ManagementThe Use Case For Network Tokens
When it comes to personally identifiable information (PII), the words of Gandalf are a good rule for individuals to live by: “Keep...
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3.2KVISAVisa Invests In YellowPepper To Accelerate Mobile Payments Adoption
To accelerate the adoption of mobile payments and tokenization in Latin America and the Caribbean, Visa has made an investment in YellowPepper,...
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5.0KB2B PaymentsTokenization Sets B2B Payments On A Path To Security, Speed
Payments security is an increasingly critical component for businesses on both sides of a B2B transaction today. WEX’s Payments Pulse Data report...
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4.1KB2B Payments
Rambus Takes Tokenization To Real-Time Payments
Data technology firm Rambus is introducing a new solution for central banks and clearing houses to heighten security of payments using tokenization....
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5.9KNewsFitPay CEO: Tokenization And Wearables Mean Identities Are Our Data
Beyond the fitness tracker, wearables are catching on. Get ready for the device as data conduit, as tracker of different sorts, from...
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7.7KPayment 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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4.1KSecurity & 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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5.3KMastercardMastercard 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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3.6KPartnerships / 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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5.7KBlockchainWill 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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11.6KSecurity & 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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7.7KSecurity & 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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6.4KBitcoinIs 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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6.4KPartnerships / 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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4.3KPartnerships / 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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7.7KPayment 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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7.1KDigital 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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9.3KMobile 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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13.9KMobile 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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7.2KPayments 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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7.0KMatchmakersVantiv 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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7.1KB2B 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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4.3KPayment 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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8.6KPayment 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...
