At a recent NACHA payments conference in San Diego, three major retailers claimed that the move to EMV will impose huge costs for a minimal reduction in fraud rates. And in a recent paper, a Kansas …
It's going to take a lot more than the ability to pay for something to get people to switch to mobile payments. This is according to a new survey by Accenture of 4,000 smartphone users in the United …
SmartMetric Inc. has announced the successful incorporation of near field communication technology into its fingerprint-activated biometric chip card. The chip remains inactive until the cardholder …
Retailers have plenty of mobile tech in their arsenal to beef up their approach toward an improved customer experience. But they might want to rethink how they approach deploying it. According to an …
According to the Marbridge Daily, China will soon announce a specification for its national mobile payment standard. The standard, which has already been drafted, could come as early as this year …
Payment acquirer WorldPay US has successfully completed Visa EMV acquirer testing, a key milestone in preparing business owners to accept encrypted chip cards. The company said it's also on track to …
Following its March meeting, the EMV Migration Forum has announced significant progress on projects supporting the U.S. payment industry's move to EMV. The forum also announced newly elected officers …
Mobile device management platform MokiMobility has closed a $2 million round of seed funding and announced a new partnership with Revel Systems. Revel is a provider of tablet-based point-of-sale …
(UPDATED) Alternative payment provider Dwolla has been hit by a distributed denial of service attack that took the company's website down for a period of time yesterday. The website is back up but a …
Giesecke & Devrient has announced another key partnership, this time with Telefónica Germany. The digital security company said it is providing NFC SIM cards and trusted service manager …
Global digital security provider Giesecke & Devrient is providing its SmartTrust Mobile Transaction Gateway to the mobile payment solution launched by PayPal and Brazilian mobile network operator …
Canadian telecommunications carrier TELUS has said that it will be using Gemalto's UpTeq NFC SIM cards to enable consumers to securely store data and payment credentials on their mobile devices …
Almost a year after holding a workshop on mobile payments, the Federal Trade Commission has issued a staff report on the issues it believes consumers and companies are dealing with when adopting …
Showing someone a road map is one thing; it's up to them to follow it. And it looks like U.S. merchants, acquirers and processors may not be following the EMV-migration "road maps" issued by the …
Mobile POS provider payleven announced the European launch of its chip-and-PIN solution. The new device is different from other mobile POS solutions that use a dongle connected to smartphone to read …
This research center deals with perhaps the most sensitive topic in the mobile payments industry – security. We cover fraud prevention for your business, privacy issues, regulation, malware, hacking, shortcodes, privacy, lost or stolen phones, and EMV.
PayPal account holders can log-in and pay online and on mobile devices with a single ID.
Retailer-backed effort will be a cloud-based wallet using barcodes at the point of sale.1 comment
iovation's new Trustscore service helps online retailers separate loyal customers from fraudsters.1 comment
Card brand tightens timeframe for U.S. move to new security standard.- Suzanne Cluckey
