Market Trends
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New Fast Food Chain May Not Accept Cash
ISO & Agent Weekly | March 19, 2012An upscale New York restaurant made headlines a while back by banning cash. Now the owners are trying to bring that policy to the masses.
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Cash Still Alive And Well, Says MasterCard Advisors
ISO & Agent Weekly | February 21, 2012Who carries cash anymore? Just about everybody, it turns out. When consumers begin to use debit cards for most of their routine purchases, they tend to carry less cash, but they tend to visit ATMs more often for small cash withdrawals.
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PCI Council Set To Tackle Mobile-Security Standards
ISO & Agent Weekly | February 21, 2012Holding up his Apple Inc. iPhone, Bob Russo, general manager of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, declares, “This is the most insecure device in the world, and my life is on it.”
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ETA Embracing Industry's New Players, President Says
ISO & Agent Weekly | January 18, 2012The new president of the Electronic Transactions Association does more than just talk about turning challenges into opportunities. Eddie Myers is working to bring the acquiring industry’s new players into the association’s mainstream.
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Zappos Breach Prompts Call For Expanding Data-Encryption Efforts
ISO & Agent Weekly | January 17, 2012f the Zappos Retail Inc. data breach has a silver lining, it may be that more merchants, including the shoe-marketing giant, have taken key steps to prevent thieves from stealing customers’ full credit card account numbers, which will blunt potential losses.
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Some ISOs Rush Into Mobile, While Others Hold Back
ISO & Agent | January 11, 2012Clunky desktop point-of-sale terminals are becoming as outdated as shoebox-sized 1980s cell phones.
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