At the end of March, MasterCard announced they had entered into an agreement to acquire NuData Security, the behavioral biometric and behavioral monitoring vendor based in Vancouver, Canada, for an undisclosed amount. A pioneer in the behavioral monitoring space, NuData offers MasterCard valuable technology and patents related to performing authentication covertly across all types of
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In the beginning of 2015 EMVCo announced they would be responsible for further developing the 3-Domain Secure 2.0 Specification, taking over for Visa and MasterCard. Now just a few months before the expected release of 3DS 2.0, EMVCo and the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council jointly announced they will be collaborating to support
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Announcements from three of the major card associations in June describe different approaches for reducing merchant liability and losses with counterfeit card fraud through April 2018 as the U.S. transitions to EMV. Visa estimates their changes will lead to 40 percent fewer chargebacks and 15 percent fewer dollars being charged back to merchants related to
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Sarasota, FL, March 15, 2016 / The Fraud Practice, Inc. The Fraud Practice and CardinalCommerce have released the third annual Use of Consumer Authentication in eCommerce white paper, detailing the results of the 2016 Consumer Authentication Survey. Tara Lavelle, VP of Marketing at CardinalCommerce, and Justin McDonald, Sr. Risk Management Consultant with The Fraud Practice,
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After completing a $67 million settlement with Visa in August regarding the high profile data breach Target experienced in late 2013, the company this week announced acceptance of a $39.4 million dollar settlement with MasterCard and issuing banks. Home Depot, who suffered a notable data breach in 2014, also reached a settlement with MasterCard according
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Visa recently released data and figures regarding EMV usage in the first full month of purchases following the October 1st EMV liability shift, adding that they are “extremely encouraged” with the 42 percent increase in chip-on-chip transaction volume and the 49 percent increase in merchant locations that can accept EMV in just one month’s time. The
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Visa Inc., the U.S. based publicly traded organization, announced on Monday November 2nd that they would be acquiring Visa Europe Ltd., their London-based counterpart, for $23.4 billion in cash and stock. The acquisition will increase the number Visa Inc. payment card accounts by 20 percent and total payment processing volume by approximately one-third. The deal, pending
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The world’s largest card brand announced the second phase of updates, new rights and options for merchants as it pertains to chargeback representment and compelling evidence. The concept of compelling evidence was first introduced in 2013 to expand the types of documentation merchants could use to dispute chargebacks, while the next phase of updates, which
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Following Visa Checkout and MasterPass, American Express launched their new Amex Express Checkout service in July, but doesn’t want it to be labeled a wallet. Cardholders that login to view or pay statements online can use the same user ID and password to submit payments online via PCs, mobile web browsers and mobile apps, and
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Facebook announced new features to their Messenger service in March allowing users to make P2P payments, but didn’t stop there. They have since announced plans to enable consumers and merchants to communicate via Facebook about purchases, known as Business on Messenger, and have started testing “Buy” buttons directly within advertisements that appear on a user’s
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