March 05, 2012
SoundOff: Point-of-Sale Security
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 Point-of-Sale Security. It only takes about 500 milliseconds...
March 05, 2012
Is “Empty Hands” Safe? We Ask PayPal’s Patrick Gauthier
Have you bought anything with your finger yet? That’s the new consumer experience being offered at the register by PayPal. A long-time champion of the online payment space, the up-and-coming...
March 04, 2012
Ontario Superior Court fines companies and individuals responsible for faux-Yellow...
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has fined deceptive marketers for using symbols resembling the Yellow Pages trademark to trick consumers. After receiving faxes from the marketers, victims believed they...
March 02, 2012
Competition Bureau kicks off Fraud Prevention Month with panel discussions...
The Competition Bureau has announced a series of anti-fraud initiatives to kick off Fraud Prevention Month. To address this year’s theme of Building Consumer Confidence, the Competition Bureau is organization...
March 01, 2012
PayPal’s Point of Sale Vision: Empty Hands and Full Wallets
We expected at least some controversy at our first-ever “Dining with the Payments Stars” event. We even brought in a ringer: Damien Balsan, current head of PayPal’s ecosystem development and...
March 01, 2012
U.S. Payment Systems to Sync with Rest of World
Related Content: VeriFone: The Key to EMV For Credit Card Security, Chips Beat Strips, VeriFone Says After essentially standing alone in resisting migration to the EMV security...
March 01, 2012
VeriFone: Making the EMV Transition
U.S. retailers are now actively being steered towards adoption of the global EMV standard. Visa, MasterCard and Discover have each issued announcements and outlining how they envision this shift to...
March 01, 2012
The Future of Cards & Payments
The cards and payments industry is currently undergoing a fast-moving period of rejuvenation and innovation, with a huge growth in contactless, mobile and online payments, a number of new players...
February 29, 2012
CyberSource Survey Shows Merchants Lost $3.4B to Fraud
Fraudsters took a roughly 1-percent-sized piece of the eCommerce pie in 2011, stealing $3.4 billion from online merchants. It’s all the more reason to listen to Karen Webster’s conversation with...
With rising FinTech fraud and convincing deepfakes threatening their bottom lines, more than two in three FinTechs plan to expand their budgets to deploy tech that can detect true human liveness, as discussed in the latest PYMNTS “FinTech Tracker®,” a collaboration with Sezzle.
