Payment processing

As bots dominate new internet traffic, their ability to help crooks launch account attacks and exploit personal information has never been higher, says NuData Security's Robert Capps.

EMV 3DS is no longer just for payments. The use cases for identification and verification (ID&V) are expanding, so the scope of EMV 3DS has become much broader to include adding cards to a digital wallet, open banking services and financial services apps, etc., writes Jean Fang, product manager at Fime.

PPRO needed a quick fix to retain clients looking for a Latin American payments solution, acquiring local payments specialist allpago rather than embark on an IT project.

Financing and payment technology provider Sunbit has received $26 million in a Series B funding round through Zeev Ventures and participants Group 11 and Chicago Ventures.

The 8-BIN migration will be here sooner than many financial institutions believe. Fortunately, even for those institutions that haven’t started planning for the migration, there is enough time to limit confusion, lost revenue and customer churn, writes Member Access Processing's Carol Logan.

China's UnionPay hopes to boost its reach in Italy by about a third, and has turned to local Italian acquirer Nexi to increase acceptance of UnionPay cards in stores and e-commerce.

New project models and the cloud can serve as an alternative to payment and financial services technology strategies that benefit larger banks more than small institutions, argues Vinay Prabhakar, vice president of product at Volante.

The Clearing House's Real-Time Payments hasn't grown as fast as it would like, but recent small-bank adoption is providing momentum for a network that assumes the Federal Reserve won't start its own real-time service.

Successful digital transformations these days are done not as make-or-break moon-shots but as a continuing series of smaller projects, says Tata Consultancy Services' David Jordan.

By making sure their payment processing solution is compliant, they can save themselves the hassle of declined payments and make sure they’re capitalizing on the expansive European e-commerce market, writes Ralph Dangelmaier, CEO and board member at BlueSnap.