Merchant

Normally tight-lipped about security moves, bankers tell how they are re-examining their systems for Equifax-like flaws and providing new cards, fresh accounts and reassuring advice for anxious customers.

The airline wants to capture more benefits from a program that should be worth more than C$2 billion ($1.6 billion) over 15 years.

Seeing the successful “private label” debit programs at Target and Cumberland Farms has inspired more merchants to launch their own initiatives, writes Adam Frisch, CEO of Buy It Mobility Networks.

Investigation will include possible insider trading by company executives; “broad clampdown” on buying and selling digital currency.

TSYS has expanded its relationships with ISOs or entered into joint ventures with companies such as super ISO Central Payment. TSYS has been gradually increasing its stakeholder share in Central Payment as part of the collaboration.

Providers leave out a majority of lower-volume companies that would happily accept an electronic payment or card, writes Sue Ellen Hodnot, vice president of sales for the west region at Nvoicepay.

The Dallas company has extinguished talk of a potential sale after aggressively cutting costs over the past year. But concerns about its future — including its ability to find new sources of revenue — remain.

Wells Fargo, PNC and others are finding that the web seminar is an effective way to promote themselves through advice and useful content aimed at consumers and business clients.

The renaming is designed to evoke a provider of end-to-end technology, beyond payments systems.

With more vendors issuing EMV cards, cybercriminals are turning to cart-not-present fraud as a way to defraud consumers. A mix of weapons is necessary to counter it, writes Robert Capps, authentication strategist and vice president at NuData Security.