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"Selfie Pay" is the New Way to Make Purchases
Did you ever think you would be able to pay a bill with a selfie? Facial recognition is being rolled out as a way to authorize online transactions in markets in Europe as you read ...
Read MoreAmerican EMV Adoption Marks One Year
Just over 12 months have gone by since the merchant services and credit card processing industry in the United States faced the historical EMV liability shift. October 1, 2015 was ...
Read MoreVerifone CEO Comments on the Future of Payments
Ever since its beginnings in the 1980s, Verifone has been known as a major global provider of point-of-sale (POS) technology and innovative solutions for the merchant payments indu...
Read MoreFraud Costs Cut in Half Since the Introduction of EMV
Great news for the credit card processing industry: Just one year into the shift towards the Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) system in the United States, and counterfeit fraud c...
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FitPay: A Truly Wearable Payment Option
In the fragmented world of mobile payments, one company is taking advantage of unifying existing technologies for the benefit of shoppers. FitPay is a California company that w...
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Online Dating Users Scammed Out of Millions [2023 Update]
Dating sites pervade the Internet. This is nothing new. In fact, they have been around and in use almost since the World Wide Web became a global sensation. Scammers and fraudsters...
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More Businesses Than You Think Still Pay By Check
Modern payment methods in the United States range from EMV chip cards to digital wallets to bitcoin; however, there's one traditional form of payment that has managed to survive t...
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Speeding up Chip Card Checkout Times with Visa
Over the last couple of years, more retailers and providers of merchant services in the United States have been settling into the new Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) credit car...
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Oracle MICROS Hackers Also Hacked 5 Other Companies
American companies that use credit card processing and merchant services are on high alert after a Russian hacking group breached the servers of various POS or point of sale syste...
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