EMV

If time seems to move faster when a payments compliance deadline is looming, then owners of gas station/convenience stores in the U.S. will feel like October of 2020 will be upon them in no time.

In response to rising concern about the environment, American Express has redesigned its classic Green Card to contain recycled plastic gathered from the ocean.

U.S. counterfeit card losses have plummeted in the past four years, a signal the challenging EMV migration has made a dent.

As major U.S. cities continue to implement contactless tap-and-go acceptance to collect transit fares, at least one bank sees this trend as an opportunity to put its cards on center stage.

Brazil has one of the world's worst payment fraud problems, which has come in handy for ClearSale as it tries to cut transaction decline rates for online payments globally. The Olympics also came in handy.

Most large banks have declared their strategies for adopting contactless cards, but the rank and file of FIS’ midsize and smaller issuers are still weighing their options about when to flip the switch.

In the U.K., next-level fraud types — involving technologies such as push payments and P2P — are gaining traction now that EMV has been in place for more than a decade.

Both are useful, but each has specialties in protecting different types of transaction processes, according to Rambus Payments' Andre Stoorvogel.

Improvements in digital receipts should be enough to spur greater adoption, argues Mike Golebiowski, president of IBT.

The U.S. is already very late to the party when it comes to contactless payments. But even so, there are signs that many merchants still aren't prepared for an influx of contactless cards.