When it comes to digital commerce, payers and businesses are clear on one thing: they want checkout to be fast, safe and simple. But while clicking “pay” and moving on sounds great, in practice it’s rarely that smooth. Checkout friction — the dreaded lags, glitches...
The world of regular payments frequently leads the business-to-business (B2B) payments landscape in leveraging innovation. That’s why, with the news last week (May 15) that Visa is launching a suite of disruptive new products and services built for the entire payments ecosystem, forward-thinking enterprises are already starting to...
Will the G20’s campaign for faster payments have unintended negative consequences? A new report by the U.K.’s Future of Financial Intelligence Sharing (FFIS) said plans to make digital payment systems faster by 2027 ignore the risk of heightened vulnerability to financial crime and money laundering. As PYMNTS...
Payments FinTech KindCard says it plans to purchase banking platform OpenTransact. The company has signed a letter of intent connected to its potential acquisition of OpenTransact, Kindcard announced in a Tuesday (Jan. 2) news release. The release noted that KindCard provides alternative “closed-loop” payments solutions...
November 20, 2019
A new version of the card skimmer resides on eCommerce checkout pages, where fraudsters steal consumers' data as it is entered. The newest sinister iteration of JavaScript skimming, Pipka, disappears from the merchant site after the data is stolen — meaning that it's tough to follow a fraudster's trail. David Capezza, senior director of payments systems intelligence at Visa, tells PYMNTS what is next in skimming — and how merchants can gird against the bad guys.
April 17, 2019
Fraud evolves as the bad guys do, trying to stay one step ahead of technology and risk management efforts. Jack Bloch, SVP SW engineering at ACI Worldwide, tells PYMNTS that...
October 18, 2018
Mastercard said Wednesday (Oct. 17) that it will enable tokenization services on all cards by 2020, as part of its Digital Commerce Solutions, a suite of offerings geared toward making...
August 31, 2018
Merchants must manage billions of tokens – easier said than done. Nitin Prabhu, PayPal’s senior director of issuance, tokenization and loyalty platform, offers a hint of history, provides perspective on concept...
January 13, 2025
Payments security provider Bluefin says it has integrated its payment gateway with Visa Platform Connect. The integration, announced Monday (Jan. 13), is designed to provide a fast and secure connection for acquirers using the Visa platform, including payment processing in multiple currencies to Visa and other major card networks. Bluefin also will use the Cybersource […]
January 07, 2024
Will the G20’s campaign for faster payments have unintended negative consequences? A new report by the U.K.’s Future of Financial Intelligence Sharing (FFIS) said plans to make digital payment systems faster by...
January 02, 2024
Payments FinTech KindCard says it plans to purchase banking platform OpenTransact. The company has signed a letter of intent connected to its potential acquisition of OpenTransact, Kindcard announced in a...
June 27, 2023
Austin, Texas, platform operator Invoiced has launched a business-to-business (B2B) invoicing network, expanding its solution from accounts receivables to accounts payables (AP). According to Jared King, CEO at Invoiced, “no...
