Welcome to What’s Trending In Payments – a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent and important stories the payments industry had to offer over the past five days. Which companies grabbed the most headlines – for better or for worse – this week, and...
Link to live trading on the various markets Bitcoin Bubble Tracker | Week 8 So, the world’s movers and shakers gathered in that idyllic Swiss enclave known as Davos this past week and agreed on perhaps only one thing: that bitcoin’s future was far from...
Hacker’s accessing improperly stored credit card data is one thing, but what if Target or Neiman Marcus had been storing customers’ biometric information instead? Merchants storing encrypted biometric data is among various security options talked about as a means to protect payment card data. In...
It's the big question being asked in the post-Target breach environment: How do we stop the next one? As Carolyn Balfany, senior vice president of U.S. product delivery at MasterCard, points out, the reality is that there's no single solution. A proactive, multi-pronged approach, however,...
January 31, 2013 This monthly report is designed to organize the mobile point of sale ecosystem, one that has emerged over the last several years as smartphones and tablets deliver new point of sale acceptance capabilities for all categories of merchants. This report provides an...
Link to live trading on the various markets Bitcoin Bubble Tracker | Week 7 Frenzied doesn’t even begin to describe the week that was bitcoin this past week. So, we now have a few more places, as in legitimate places, to use bitcoin including the...
Our latest November 2013 MPOS Tracker finds that the mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) sector is in the midst of rapid expansion. But, despite this growth, not all players in the ecosystem stand to gain in 2014 and beyond. Our new report suggests the coming months could...
Cardinal Commerce has much in store for customers in 2014. Chief among its plans is a dashboard tool that will enable merchants to adjust their fraud screening and authentication practices to their own risk tolerance and experience. But, will merchants find the company’s solutions a...
