December 28, 2021
UnionPay, VNPAY, ECPay Bringing Contactless QR Code Payments to Vietnam
Card acceptance firm UnionPay is collaborating with financial services company VNPay and payments platform ECPay to give shoppers in Vietnam the ability to make contactless Quick Response (QR) Code payments...
December 20, 2021
Sage to Buy Retail Management Platform Brightpearl for $300M
The Sage Group, an accounting, financial, human resources (HR) and payroll technology platform for smaller businesses, has purchased cloud-native retail management system Brightpearl, per a Monday (Dec. 20) press release....
December 16, 2021
Visa Reports EMV® 3DS Delivers 35% Less Fraud, More Approvals,...
When consumers rushed into online shopping at the beginning of the pandemic, fraudsters were not far behind. In particular, the accelerated growth of eCommerce and related digital transactions such as...
December 14, 2021
Panel: Passwordless Banking, Payments Must Overcome Consumer Headwinds
Ten years is a long time in tech — to dream up new ways of doing things, design them, deploy them and see the masses embrace them. But some technologies...
December 09, 2021
Private Equity Firm Accel-KKR Invests in Entersekt to Boost Device...
Entersekt, which works in device identity and authentication, has seen an investment from Accel-KKR, which works in private equity, the companies announced Thursday (Dec. 9). The investment will help Entersekt...
November 30, 2021
New User Authentication System Sets Stage for a Passwordless Future
With the longstanding 3D Secure (3DS) version 1 being readied for retirement in October 2022, financial institutions (FIs) and merchants are preparing for a streamlined authentication process more aligned with...
October 29, 2021
Migration to Digital Cards ‘Will Take Time’ in Face of...
The digital card is coming, although ubiquity will be a marathon — not a sprint. IDEMIA Senior Vice President of Strategy Mehdi Elhaoussine and Mastercard Executive Vice President of Merchants...
October 07, 2021
Retail’s Next ‘Great Digital Shift’ — Private-Label Cards
Retailers had to quickly adapt to the accelerated shift to online amid the pandemic in order to meet their customers where they wanted to shop and felt safe doing so....
September 30, 2021
CardinalCommerce CEO: Time to Break the ‘Vicious Cycle’ of False...
The massive deluge of eCommerce is not without its drawbacks — more than $440 billion of drawbacks to put a number on it if you add up all the would-be...