ISOs

ISOs apparently aren’t content to stand by and let the big tech companies dominate the new market for micromerchant electronic payments.

Talk about a public relations coup for mobile payments firm Dwolla Corp.

The switch from magnetic stripe cards to EMV in the U.S. appears unlikely to create a surge in demand for EMV-capable terminals, but the changeover still offers opportunity for the acquiring industry.

News of the Global Payments Inc. data breach rippled across mainstream Web sites in recent weeks, reawakening consumer and industry concerns about the risk to millions when criminals expose sensitive data.

Intuit Inc. has confirmed reports that it acquired Boston-based mobile-commerce provider AisleBuyer LLC on April 9.

Global Payments Inc.'s recent data breach is causing many in the payments industry participants, including hundreds of small U.S. processors, to recheck their security, one security expert contends.

PayPal Inc. has recast its offerings for small merchants, a move it says builds on its recent launch of the PayPal Here portable card reader.

Payments-terminal makers are fighting a war on at least two fronts.

Cardtronics Inc. has entered into a series of agreements intended to stabilize the interest rates it pays on the $1.3 billion in constant vault cash it rents to stock the ATMs it owns.

ISOs and agents have relied on value-added services for decades to differentiate themselves and ensure repeat business.

Google Inc. has acquired prepaid card processor TxVia, the companies announced April 2.

The Global Payments Inc. breach and others like it suggest the payment industry should rethink how it protects card data.

Global Payments' response to the data breach disclosed last week, as well as the card networks' response, followed a familiar script.

WASHINGTON – Lawmakers are calling for immediate action to pass long-stalled data-security legislation in the face of last week’s news of a massive data breach at cards processor Global Payments Inc.

A technical problem affecting the Visa network barred consumers from using their credit and debit cards for about 45 minutes on Sunday, April 1, the card brand says.

WASHINGTON–The nation's capital is paying attention to mobile payments. Whether that will help or hurt the industry's growth, however, remains an open question.

A data breach at a card processor may have affected more than 10 million Visa and MasterCard accounts, security expert Brian Krebs reported March 30 on his blog.

The drumbeats are growing louder for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to take action on reloadable prepaid cards.

With mobile-payment technology advancing quickly, the demise of plastic payment cards might seem near. But that’s not so, experts agree.

Surcharge-free ATMs. The very phrase holds the power to frighten the bravest of cash-machine deployers.