March 27, 2012
Why Care about Mobile Commerce?

The Tipping Point in Here Mobile commerce has finally reached a tipping point. But what got us here wasn’t a silver bullet mobile payments technology, whizzy new app or “aha”...

March 25, 2012
Security Breach! Barclays’ Contactless Cards Have Issues

An investigative team was able to use mobile phones to lift card numbers, expiration dates, and accountholder names from Barclays’ “contactless” Visa cards late last week. That data was then...

March 14, 2012
SoundOff: Prepaid Up and Comings

PYMNTS.com’s “SoundOff” is the industry’s views on key topics, according to some of its key players. This week’s chatter is all about the future of Prepaid.  What are your thoughts?...

March 14, 2012
PayPal Poked at Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs technology conference last week in San Fran sure did stir the pot around PayPal and its Point of Sale ambitions. The centerpiece of this criticism is PayPal’s...

March 13, 2012
What if PayPal Issues a Swipe Reader?

    RELATED CONTENT:   Is “Empty Hands” Safe? We Ask PayPal’s Patrick Gauthier   How Staples Hopes to Achieve E-Tail Innovation   Multiple outlets are reporting various rumors about...

March 08, 2012
MagTek CEO: “Dynamic Data is the Core of Security” [TRANSCRIPT]

David Evans: Hi, this is David Evans; talking today with Mimi Hart, CEO of MagTek, for PYMNTS.com. Mimi, thank you very much for joining me today. Mimi Hart: Oh, it’s...

March 06, 2012
New Purchase and Pay Innovation to Drive Government Procurement

March 6, 2012–London, UK MasterCard, ProcServe and Invapay have announced a new initiative to deliver an innovative Purchase and Pay solution to underpin the government’s drive towards efficiency in its...

March 06, 2012
Point-of-Sale Security

MagTek CEO Mimi Hart talks to MPD’s David Evans about the progress of transaction security since that time, as well as the future of securing payment information. Read More

March 05, 2012
Exploring the Dongle: A Tale of Two Swipers

One of the coolest features we’ve ever published on PYMNTS.com about security took on a device with perhaps the silliest name of any component of payments: the dongle. Dongle security...