David Heun

Verifone's integrated payments strategy is focused around its mobile Carbon POS, and the San Jose-based terminal manufacturer has now added cloud-based POS software from talech to the Carbon platform.

Stolen payment card data is a bad investment. There's just far more stolen payment credentials available than the "market" will bear.

In a move designed to strengthen its capabilities for integrated payments, processor and technology provider Total System Services has agreed to acquire Cayan for $1.05 billion. The news shortly follows another deal valued in the billions — Thales agreeing to buy the chip maker Gemalto for $5.4 billion.

Visa research contends consumers are interested in biometrics and consider it superior to traditional usernames and passwords.

More retailers are accepting mobile wallets, but few agree on what that entails. Many stores are coming up with their own wallets by building on past successes or burying payments deep under the surface of their mobile channel.

Discover cardholders and Discover Bank members who own an iPhone X can now use Face ID biometrics to sign onto the Discover mobile app.

As Mastercard, Discover and American Express all plan to drop signature authentication at the point of sale, Visa is largely mum on the topic. But does it really need to weigh in?

To help its member banks avoid the nightmare of a data breach, Swift is requiring they take the necessary security steps to establish a strong baseline of cyber defense. And Swift intends to make sure its banks all follow the same procedures.

As the reigning technology giants demand consumers do everything through voice-controlled smart speakers, they may inadvertently succeed where smartphone-based wallets stalled.

American Express is falling in line with Mastercard and Discover in eliminating the signature requirement for authorization on all card transactions at the point of sale, starting in April of 2018.

Kenneth Montgomery will chair the Secure Payments Task Force, which is made up of more than 200 industry stakeholders who are working on a faster payment system in the U.S.

Chase Pay was years in the making, and it's still finding new ways to reach its intended audience. On the surface it seems like a simple QR code-based mobile wallet, but underneath it's far more complex.

Card usage drops off fast after a false positive. In many cases, two false positives cause consumers to abandon a card permanently.

Discover's shift starts in April 2018. Mastercard has also eliminated signatures for credit and debit card transactions.

Airlink's knowledge of the local market and relationships with banks, acquirers and large merchants in region will help the Paris-based Ingenico grow in Taiwan and strengthen its position in Northeast Asia.

The free pass becomes effective when a flight is expected to be delayed by two or more hours and the cardholder has registered flight details at least six hours prior to scheduled departure.

Even the efficiencies of an upgrade may not be enough for the human touch that some higher-risk accounts require, leaving a "painful" process for merchants and acquirers.

Because their businesses operate mostly with cash with little financial record keeping, the nearly 100,000 kiosk owners in Kenya have no way to qualify for traditional loans and lines of credit offered by banks. Plus, the kiosk owners have no mechanism to place stock orders directly with a wholesaler.

The card brand's dCVV2 specification code standard can put a dynamic CVV2 payment card in the hands of customers sometimes in a matter of hours, rather than days or even months, contends technology developer Idemia.

The payment contract extensions call on both Chase and Amex to offer new products for consumers and businesses.