David Heun is an associate editor for technology at American Banker.
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ATMs in some key Las Vegas locations will allow consumers to obtain U.S. dollars with foreign payment cards through Monex Financial Services' dynamic currency conversion technology.
By David HeunMarch 6 -
The age of the interactive card may have finally arrived, ushered in by the U.S. shift to the EMV standard.
By David HeunMarch 5 -
Japanese mobile app provider Line Corp. will use CyberSource's e-commerce payment services to expand the Line Pay mobile payment service by supporting more payment options.
By David HeunMarch 5 -
Here's the sales pitch: use the service as much as you want for a flat monthly fee of under $10, potentially saving money over paying per transaction. It sounds like Netflix, but it's a new and fairly unconventional approach to how Cardtronics is selling ATM access.
By David HeunMarch 3 -
Square hopes to broaden its reach with its core micro-merchant market by offering technology to tap the $1.6 trillion e-commerce market.
By David HeunMarch 3 -
Visa and Pizza Hut are banking on pizza ordering and payment in the future to take place inside of automobiles.
By David HeunMarch 2 -
Heartland Payment Systems has acquired payroll and tax filing products provider Payroll 1 to bolster its ability to add extra merchant services to lure payroll processing clients.
By David HeunMarch 2 -
By agreeing to acquire mobile payment provider Paydiant, e-commerce giant PayPal has vaulted itself back into the in-store mobile wallet landscape in which Apple, Google, Samsung and others have commanded recent attention.
By David HeunMarch 2 -
A Google executive has confirmed the company has established Android Pay, a previously rumored platform upon which developers can build payments into applications.
By David HeunMarch 2 -
A Google executive has confirmed the company has established Android Pay, a previously rumored platform upon which developers can build payments into applications.
By David HeunMarch 2 -
First American Payment Systems is bringing another mobile point of sale system into the crowded marketplace of companies seeking small-merchant business.
By David HeunMarch 2 -
Mere days after disclosing that Google Inc. purchased Softcard's technology and intellectual property, the telcos' mobile wallet venture began publicly disclosing its plans to shut down.
By David HeunFebruary 27 -
Mere days after disclosing that Google Inc. purchased Softcard's technology and intellectual property, the telcos' mobile wallet venture began publically disclosing its plans to shut down.
By David HeunFebruary 26 -
French tech consultancy FIME is partnering with cybersecurity provider Thales e-Security to encourage use of Host Card Emulation technology for contactless mobile payments.
By David HeunFebruary 26 -
Merchants opposed to the U.S. migration to EMV-chip cards have long questioned whether the security benefit is worth the expense of putting in new payment terminals. American Express is taking some of the cost out of the equation, but even this move might not be enough to bring most merchants on board.
By David HeunFebruary 25 -
Consumers in North Dakota are far less likely to experience an incident of e-commerce fraud than those living in West Virginia. Knowing this informs Forter's monitoring of e-commerce fraud.
By David HeunFebruary 25 -
Host Card Emulation, the technology that allows contactless mobile payments without access to a phone's secure element, could bust the barrier that still lingers between mobile payments and loyalty.
By David HeunFebruary 24 -
Google is buying some technology and intellectual property from the rival Android-based mobile wallet Softcard, giving Google a chance to finally put to bed several business problems that have plagued the company since it launched its mobile wallet in 2011.
By David HeunFebruary 23 -
Responding to reports last week that its encryption keys had been stolen by U.S. and British spies five years ago, Gemalto contends its products are secure and announced it would reveal results of its investigation into the claims at a press conference Feb. 25 in Paris.
By David HeunFebruary 23 -
Responding to reports last week that its encryption keys had been stolen by U.S. and British spies five years ago, Gemalto contends its products are secure and announced it would reveal results of its investigation into the claims at a press conference Feb. 25 in Paris.
By David HeunFebruary 23
