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Card Issuer False Positives Represent $118 Billion in Lost Processing Volume
According to a recent study by Javelin Strategy & Research, issuers left $118 billion on the table last year by wrongly declining payment...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read

WorldPay Chooses IPO Over Multiple Buyout Bids
After announcing plans to take WorldPay public on the London Stock Exchange, Ingenico, Wirecard AG and a private equity consortium each...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read

In-Store Mobile Payments Forecasted to Reach $54 Billion by 2019
Javelin estimates that the mobile payment volume for in-store purchases in the U.S. will grow more than tenfold, from $4 billion in 2014...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read

Apple Pay Launches in the United Kingdom with 8 Banks and 250,000 Merchant Locations On Board
On July 14th, about nine months after its release in the United States, Apple Pay became available in a second market, the United...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read

American Express Leverages Cardholder Online Login Information for Faster Online and Mobile Purchase
Following Visa Checkout and MasterPass, American Express launched their new Amex Express Checkout service in July, but doesn’t want it to...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read

First Data Acquires Digital Gift Card Distributor Transaction Wireless Inc.
Less than one year after the acquisition of digital gift card platform Gyft in 2014, First Data announced the acquisition of Transaction...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read

Dyre Malware Picks Up Where Zeus Left Off
Since the takedown of the Zeus botnet in June 2014 fraudsters have moved to a new malware of choice, known as Dyre, which also seeks to...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read

Most U.S. Merchants Will Not Make EMV Deadline; Less than Half of Small Businesses Have Any Plans To
According to a recent report from Javelin Strategy & Research, up to 75 percent of merchants in the United States will not be EMV...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read

MasterCard Forms New Partnerships to Proliferate Use of Tokens
MasterCard seeks to solidify their place as a premier token service provider as they recently formed partnerships with Synchrony...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read

Growing Mobile Traffic Underscores Importance of Mobile Friendly Sites and Apps
According to data from comScore, 13 percent of U.S. Internet users that visited retailers online did so only using mobile devices,...
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Nov 4, 20214 min read

Merchants Should Already be Planning for Increased Fraud Attempts Post-EMV
According to forecasts from Aite Group nearly all credit cards issued in the U.S. will have EMV capabilities by 2018 when CNP credit card...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read

U.S. House Members Form Congressional Payments Technology Caucus
Four members of the House of Representatives formed a bipartisan committee known as the Congressional Payments Technology Caucus (CPTC)...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read

Get Ready for Facebook’s Foray into Payments
Facebook announced new features to their Messenger service in March allowing users to make P2P payments, but didn’t stop there. They have...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read

The FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance released their first documents for stronger authentication
Following Apple’s lead Samsung and Google each announced mobile payment services of their own with a similar naming structure. The...
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Nov 4, 20214 min read

Google Wallet Partners with and Acquires Softcard’s Technology
While there had been rumors that Google was in talks with Softcard to acquire the mobile network’s joint venture, the two organizations...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read

Visa to Expand Token Service used with Apple Pay to Visa Checkout and eCommerce Merchants in 2015
The world’s largest card network commercially debuted their Visa Token Service in October, 2014 coinciding with the launch of Apple Pay....
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Nov 4, 20212 min read

Samsung Acquires Mobile Payment Technology Startup LoopPay
Samsung, one of the primary Google Wallet partners, announced in late February that they would acquire mobile contactless payment...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read

Visa Working with Issuers to Expand use of Mobile Geolocating to Verify Card Present Transactions
Visa has partnered with Finsphere, a geospatial analytics company, to provide location information of mobile devices at the time of a...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read

NACHA, The Clearing House and the Federal Reserve Seek to Make Same Day ACH Payments a Reality
In early December the Electronic Payments Association, alternatively known as NACHA, released more details on their proposal for a...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read

Is this Finally the Year Mobile Wallets Takeoff?
There has been a great deal of speculation and high expectations for the growth of contactless mobile payments since the launch of Google...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read
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