David Heun is an associate editor for technology at American Banker.
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MasterCard has extended its financial inclusion initiative to Rwanda through an agreement with the country's government to move away from the use of cash.
By David HeunMay 12 -
Walmart and Visa have had a long and volatile relationship, and the retailer's latest lawsuit against the global card brand gives voice to a struggle that many other companies are too small to fight.
By David HeunMay 12 -
When a breach of the world's major e-mail service providers was reported last week, it drove home the fact that a single stolen password can put numerous accounts in danger.
By David HeunMay 12 -
Walmart and Visa have had a long and volatile relationship, and the retailer's latest lawsuit against the global card brand gives voice to a struggle that many other companies are too small to fight.
By David HeunMay 11 - PSO content
The payments industry saw merger-and-acquisition volume decrease 21 percent in 2015, after rising 46% in 2014.
By David HeunMay 11 -
Walmart and Visa have had a long and volatile relationship, and the retailer's latest lawsuit against the global card brand gives voice to a struggle that many other companies are too small to fight.
By David HeunMay 11 -
Apple Pay's slow expansion around the world seems to have gotten a jolt with the announcement of multiple Canadian issuers signing on, but it still faces many of the same roadblocks that have plagued adoption elsewhere.
By David HeunMay 10 -
ACH Alert has been providing fraud protection for Automated Clearing House, debit and wire transactions at banks for more than six years, but it's probably never been in a better position to draw attention to its real-time process.
By David HeunMay 10 -
Carrier billing provider Bango has purchased BilltoMobile and its contracts from Danal Inc., making Bango a processor of carrier billing transactions across all major mobile networks in the U.S.
By David HeunMay 9 -
Dwolla has forwarded its proposal for faster payments to a Federal Reserve Board task force studying submissions as part of a national initiative, and its voice is one of several seeking to make a difference in the country's move to faster payments.
By David HeunMay 9 -
Though many have tried and failed to get bitcoin into the mainstream, iPayYou CEO Gene Kavner is ready to take a page out of the playbook of Amazon.com, his former employer, to bring attention to his new bitcoin wallet.
By David HeunMay 6 -
Fueled in part by an increase in phishing attacks with malware attachments in the past year, fraudsters took only minutes to compromise a network in 93% of breach incidents, according to Verizon's 2016 data breach investigations report.
By David HeunMay 5 -
Despite having fewer prepaid cards in the market, Green Dot delivered a first quarter that exceeded its executives' expectations with $78.3 million in adjusted earnings.
By David HeunMay 4 -
Despite having fewer prepaid cards in the market, Green Dot delivered a first quarter that exceeded its executives' expectations with $78.3 million in adjusted earnings.
By David HeunMay 4 - PSO content
Cross-border payments service provider Cambridge Global Payments is working with CSI globalVCard to simplify global transactions through new accounts payable software.
By David HeunMay 4 -
Global EMV consultant and system tester Fime will provide end-to-end certification services for terminals and acceptance systems using the Discover Network and Diners Club International payment applications.
By David HeunMay 4 -
After planting its roots firmly in data encryption and enterprise content management for Payment Card Industry security compliance, Hyland has turned its attention toward fraud detection.
By David HeunMay 4 -
Banks and their merchant clients face a costly problem stemming from how prepared they are to deal with attacks that sidestep the point of sale.
By David HeunMay 3 -
Many organizations handling payment card data do not have the technology in place to simplify the complex process of compiling quarterly testing results now required by the Payment Card Industry data security standards.
By David HeunMay 2 -
A partnership between carrier billing provider Boku and digital music service Spotify will allow consumers in Germany and Italy to subscribe to Spotify using their mobile phone numbers.
By David HeunApril 29
