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AmEx Offering Incentives to Boost Card Acceptance
To keep up with Visa and Mastercard, American Express is offering sign-on bonuses to companies to offset start-up costs. Ranging from $10,000 to nearly $500,000, American Express s...
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Alipay Launches International E-Wallet, Giving Tourists Access to a Mobile Payment Platform in China
Those who’ve spent any time in China as a tourist will know first hand just how difficult it can be to perform the seemingly simple task of paying for things with a format other ...
Read MoreMacy's Website Hacked
This week, major U.S. department store chain Macy’s revealed that they were targeted by a malicious online cyber attack that attempted to steal the payment information of their c...
Read MoreWhat to Look For in a POS
Finding a new point of sale system for your business can be a tricky undertaking. Before you jump the gun on something that may not quite be right for your business, however, take...
Read MoreWhat is Interchange Plus Pricing in Credit Card Processing?
To increase transparency in the pricing of credit card processing, credit card processors offer interchange plus pricing, which is often compared to a wholesale processing fee. Und...
Read MoreWhat is "Friendly Fraud" and How Can My Business Handle It?
Friendly fraud can be summed up as an honest mistake: reporting a charge as fraud when a customer did indeed make that purchase. Often times this happens unwittingly either by an...
Read MoreApplePay Faces Challenges in Europe
Various technology giants have been looking at the emerging mobile payments sector with great interest, particularly if they have already claimed some market share with regard to m...
Read MorePayPal’s Xoom Launches Domestic Money Transfers with Walmart
PayPal’s international money transfer service Xoom has this week made the announcement that, for the first time, their customers will be able to make money transfers to recipient...
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MasterCard Launches Global B2B Service
More than a year after announcing the launch of MasterCard Track, a B2B digital platform for improving global trade among small businesses, MasterCard has unveiled new plans to mo...
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