News Briefs
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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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Most Candidates Pass Acquiring Industry’s First Certification Test
ISO & Agent Weekly | January 10, 2012A strong majority of candidates passed the first examination for the acquiring industry’s new Certified Payments Professional credential.
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Mobile Payment Apps Could Breed Breaches, Analyst Says
ISO & Agent Weekly | January 9, 2012The explosion of mobile applications, especially those involving banking and payments, is almost certain to lead to ingenious new hacker attacks on consumer data this year.
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Yahoo Poised To Enter Payments World?
ISO & Agent Weekly | January 9, 2012Yahoo Inc. stands out as the only major Internet brand without a payment service, but that may change now that the company has hired Scott Thompson from PayPal Inc. as its new CEO.
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Elavon Offers Chip Card Acceptance For Phones
ISO & Agent Weekly | January 4, 2012Elavon has launched a secure payment product that turns mobile devices, such as cell phones, into chip card payment terminals, the unit of U.S. Bancorp announced Jan.4.
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- ATMs Of The Near Future Will Offer More Than Cash
- Acquirers Await Details Of Visa’s New Fee
- PINs Phase-Out
- Cybercrooks Aim Small In Latest Breaches
- The End of the Magstripe?
The State of EMV Smartcards in the U.S. - New cards: Cash-back, Affluent Targets
- Acquirers Await Details Of Visa’s New Participation Fee
- Facebook Earned 15% Of Its Revenue From Payments Last Year
- Google Wallet's Security Woes
- Retailer Sues Processor Over Alleged Data Breach
