May 22, 2012
20130402 – Prime Factors Helps Issuers Keep EMV Data In-House
As the U.S. EMV deadlines loom, the temptation issuers face to send their EMV data prep to a third party bureau is great. Prime Factors today is helping put an...
May 21, 2012
MasterCard Puts TSYS on EMV Cross-Industry Advisory Group
In an effort to help move EMV implementation forward in the U.S., MasterCard says it is forming a cross-industry group “designed to foster collaboration and alignment between networks, issuers, merchants,...
May 21, 2012
VeriFone Counters U.S. EMV Skeptics
Recently intensified mandates from Visa and MasterCard, combined with multiple successful transitions across the globe, suggest the adoption of EMV will only expand in the future — and into the...
May 18, 2012
Chase GM: Issuers Still Competing On Rewards
A lot has changed in credit card issuing over just the past several years, according to David Gold, General Manager for JPMorgan Chase Card Services, who spoke to PYMNTS.com this...
May 14, 2012
POS Portal Will Distribute Ingenico’s EMV-Enabled Terminals In U.S.
Ingenico and POS Portal entered into a new distribution agreement this week, whereby POS Portal will begin delivering Ingenico’s EMV-enabled point-of-sale terminal products to merchants through its ISO partners. Ingenico’s...
May 14, 2012
What Merchants Want Out Of Mobile Commerce
As I said on Friday, CTIA invited 50,000 of its closest friends to gather in NOLA for its big International Wireless show. My final post will describe a few further...
May 08, 2012
45% of World’s Payment Cards Are Now EMV Compatible
There are 1.5 billion EMV payment cards in circulation and 21.9 million EMV terminals active worldwide, representing a 45 and 76 percent share of the market respectively, according to new...
May 03, 2012
EMV Experts Talk 2012 and Beyond
U.S. Bank’s Mary Miklethun explains issuers’ likely first step in getting EMV-capable cards into American consumers’ hands. Read More
May 03, 2012
EMV Experts Talk 2012 and Beyond
Visa’s Stephanie Ericksen has clarified an important point that could reduce EMV’s implementation costs in the U.S.: EMV and “chip-and-PIN” are not necessarily synonyms. Read More