David Heun is an associate editor for technology at American Banker.
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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 -
Visa launched its Visa Developer platform earlier this year to open up to third-party developers and bring more attention to digital commerce, a move that gives its second annual "Everywhere Initiative" even more meaning.
By David HeunApril 28 -
EMV chip card protections at the point of sale and a general corporate awareness of card data security are helping lower the number of data compromises worldwide. But fraudsters are moving quickly to bigger targets.
By David HeunApril 28 -
Visa issuers will be required by October of this year to provide a transaction alert service to cardholders but if they don't have a plan in place this week, Visa will step in with its own offering.
By David HeunApril 27 -
More than 2.5 million contactless reader terminals accept Apple Pay in the U.S. and CEO Cook expects more expansion soon.
By David HeunApril 27 -
With the backdrop of a tough financial second quarter, Apple executives both sang the praises of Apple Pay's uptick in consumer use and admitted the company has to view the mobile payment service as a future money maker rather than a key contributor now.
By David HeunApril 27 -
The growth of in-app and social media payments may please consumers, but merchants are worried that these new forms of card-not-present payments will expose them to more fraud liability.
By David HeunApril 27 -
Multi-factor authentication will be required for administrative access to card data and systems for Payment Card Industry data security compliance this week.
By David HeunApril 25 -
A week after saying they were less than a year away from testing a real-time payments network in the U.S., The Clearing House and FIS have submitted a proposal about the system to the Federal Reserve's Faster Payments Task Force.
By David HeunApril 25 -
It didn't take long for debit card issuers affected by the Durbin amendment fee caps to cut back or eliminate rewards programs to recoup costs. Issuers now engaged in the increasingly competitive credit card rewards and loyalty environment may soon have to face that same decision.
By David HeunApril 25 -
MasterCard will vault itself deep into the faster payments landscape and position itself better to compete with Visa in the U.K. if a £1 billion acquisition of VocaLink unfolds as reported on a U.K. news site.
By David HeunApril 22
