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...
Everyone talks about moving to the cloud, and doing so can certainly deliver benefits in a contact center environment. It creates ease...
Mastercard and MegaFon have introduced two joint initiatives that will allow subscribers to link their mobile phone accounts to Apple Pay or...
In a move to strengthen its digital money platform with secure payment applications, Uphold has acquired Cortex MCP. Cortex’s CEO and Founder,...
It’s hard to separate the headlines, sometimes, beyond the vagaries of huge price swings in bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. It’s hard, sometimes, to...
Call centers are fast becoming a fraudster favorite. Why? Because they’re just so darn inviting. Committing fraud over the phone in a...
Tokenization is a vanguard in the fight against card not present fraud – but is flexible enough to protect just about any...
Billionaire investor and Saudi Arabian prince Alwaleed bin Talal dismissed Bitcoin on Monday (Oct. 23), saying on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that he...
The Clearing House and Mastercard announced news on Thursday (Oct. 19) that they are partnering to enable The Clearing House (TCH) to...
On Tuesday (Oct. 17), Rambus, Inc. announced news of a partnership with domestic Australian debit network eftpos. The collaboration will allow eftpos...
The latest iteration of EMVCo’s Payment Tokenization Specification has the potential to change the way we shop – even as it changes...
The move from plastic to pixels may be a slow one. Changing consumer behavior is no easy feat, as we’ve seen with...
Commerce interrupted is a terrible thing. Consumers miss out and merchants miss a sale. The familiar friction points – typing in 16-digit...
Fitbit is debuting its Ionic watch – enabled for Visa payments. And, as noted Monday by the two companies, and as the...
What would you say if someone asked you to name the most important innovation in payments over the last five years? We...
Developers platforms have quickly gone from being cutting edge to being something like table stakes for serious financial technology players, as Karen...
Card processor TSYS is looking to heighten the security of mobile corporate payments. The company announced Tuesday (May 30) that it is...
Keep up or fall down. The April PYMNTS.com Developer Tracker, powered by Vantiv, features an interview with Burt Aycock, director of Design...
Vantiv, the provider of payments processing services and related technology solutions for merchants and financial institutions, announced Tuesday (April 25) that it’s...
Transferring large sums of money typically always poses a risk. This rings true especially in today’s tech-savvy world, where computer hacking makes...
With internal security threats leading to significant losses of data and money for the enterprise, businesses are tasked with not only safeguarding...
Dyadic Security has announced a $12 million fundraise to boost its enterprise security offerings. The U.S. startup said Tuesday (March 14) that...
Citi is rolling out a new solution that enables corporates to ditch physical tokens when logging onto their business platforms. The bank...
Payment processing firm CardConnect is targeting transaction security with its latest offering. The company said Tuesday (Jan. 17) that it is rolling out...
This year’s ongoing Consumer Electronics Showcase has been a non-stop stream of innovation, collaboration and new technologies. The latest in the smart...
Smart Token Chain (STC), a company that explores the use of blockchain for smart contracts, tokenization and other transactions, has announced the...
Online payment service provider eMerchantPay recently released details of its new One Time Token (OTT). The token will allow merchants not compliant...
As commerce continues to get more and more connected, reaching even more devices, one of the biggest challenges at hand is ensuring...
Singapore’s DBS Bank is doing away with physical tokens for some corporate payments. Reports on Wednesday (Oct. 12) said DBS is nixing...
Samsung is looking to introduce biometric authentication capabilities to mobile devices, a move that could have significant implications for the enterprise world. Reports...
Software company Hypersocket Software is warning businesses that they should pay attention to what the recent data breach at accounting company Sage...
Ping Identity has just announced new enhancements to how enterprises can link into the cloud and mobile. An announcement on Monday (Aug....
There are two primary concerns in the payments industry’s quest to achieve effective security and fraud protection: businesses’ own data, and the...
Open Financial Exchange (OFX) is one of the banking industry’s most common APIs, allowing financial institutions to aggregate data and link that...
The global technical body that facilitates the worldwide interoperability and acceptance of secure payment transactions has upgraded its specs. In a press...
Wells Fargo piqued the interest of its corporate clients late last year when it revealed it was working on biometric identification technology...
While the importance of supporting EMV transactions may vary across industries, in certain sectors a new push toward EMV is underway to...
Visa is making a move to ensure Internet of Things offerings, ranging from wearables to cars, can embed secure Visa payments. The...
Visa Europe said Tuesday (Feb. 16) that it has expanded its tokenization service to enable customers in the financial services industry to...
Corporations may want the same kind of fast, technologically advanced banking solutions as consumers do, but corporate banking also has more demanding...
Visa Checkout, the online checkout option from Visa, just secured two major merchant partners that are adding the online checkout button to...
It’s the start of a new year, and innovators are making predictions left and right about what 2016 will bring for FinTech...
Walmart ended the year by announcing Walmart Pay. It’s starting the year with a big move to reinvent the way its customers...
It’s becoming increasingly evident that payments, commerce, tech and mobile are colliding at the intersection of innovation, but how those industries will...
Visa has rolled out its tokenization service in Asia-Pacific. The company announced yesterday (Dec. 14) that Visa Token Service has launched in...
A was for Apple Pay, B was for bitcoin and C was for cross-border. OK, maybe you saw those ones coming, but...
There will be more than 6.4 billion connected or Internet of Things devices in the next year. These “smart” devices will be...
Anyone doing business with a bank demands security. But in corporate banking, the stakes are often higher, with multimillion dollar transactions that...
In March 2015, addressing a crowd at Innovation Project 2015, retired four-star General Keith Alexander, the former director of the National Security Agency,...
Fifty billion points of commerce – that’s the opportunity to expand commerce to places and devices that we can’t even as yet...