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Although complete migration to EMV is expected to take up to seven years, CNP (card-not-present) merchants will struggle with increased fraud as criminals shift online to more vulnerable remote payments.

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.

The expansion of devices connected to the Internet of Things is raising security and privacy concerns, spurring the Smart Card Alliance (SCA) to take action.

IBM has released a set of blockchain cloud services built to meet security and compliance standards for companies in regulated industries — particularly, financial services, healthcare and government.

There is some good and bad EMV-related news for the U.S. when it comes to chargebacks and false declines.

New details unearthed about how cybercriminals stole $81 million out of a Bangladesh Bank account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York provide insight into how the theft occurred, some of the vulnerabilities that were exploited and what banks can learn from the incident.

McDonald's has been at the fore of many new digital initiatives around the world, and it has played a significant role in demonstrating how MasterCard can flex its international scale to build new services and avoid being disrupted.

MasterCard Inc., the second-largest U.S. payments network, reported profit that beat analysts’ estimates as card spending increased.

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.

An organization could go to great lengths to protect its internal network only to have all that effort undone by its third party service provider failing to take proper security measures.