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Industry Terms: Merchant Account [2023 Update]
This is the latest installment in The Official Merchant Services Blog's Knowledge Base effort. Well we want to make the payment processing industry's terms and buzzwords clear. We ...
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Industry Terms: Virtual Terminal
This is the latest installment in The Official Merchant Services Blog's Knowledge Base effort. Well we want to make the payment processing industry's terms and buzzwords clear. We ...
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Mobile Payments [2023 Update]
A payment processing related story setting the blogosphere on fire right now is this study by Pew from their PewInternet and American Life Project that suggests that mobile payment...
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A is for Acquirer
We've been working hard the past 7 months at The Official Merchant Services Blog to offer our readers a knowledge base -- a place to come frequently to get clear and useful informa...
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Data Breach Security [2023 Update]
The Official Merchant Services Blog follows up its extensive coverage of the Global Payments Data Breach today. The news of this data breach hit on Friday March 30. At f...
Read MoreAndroid Phone Now Takes Payments
Host Merchant Services finally gets to make this announcement official: All mobile payment solutions the company offers now feature both iPhone and Android compatibility. On Feb...
Read MoreData Breach Solutions
Today The Official Merchant Services Blog has a quick follow up to its ongoing coverage of the Global Payments Data Breach. The past two entries in our blog have taken a sweeping l...
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PCI and the Data Breach [2023 Update]
TodayThe Official Merchant Services Blog continues looking at the bigger picture of the impact from the Global Payments Data Breach -- specifically looking at the affect it's goin...
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Data Breach Consequences [2023 Update]
Today The Official Merchant Services Blog is going to delve into the bigger picture of the impact that the Global Payments Data Breach is going to have on the payment processin...
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