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New technology tools are emerging in the market that merchant acquirers can offer or merchants themselves can adopt to comply with Payment Card Industry data-security standards.

Chip-based fuel cards soon may replace magnetic stripe versions oil companies issue for use at European gas station stores and fuel pumps.

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Passengers on the Delhi subway network soon may be able to recharge their transit smart cards at ATMs and retail outlets to relieve congestion at rail stations, a spokesperson for the Delhi Metro Rail Corp. tells PaymentsSource.

Card data security risks for online merchants or those operating payment schemes via cloud computing will get much attention next year from the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council.

VeriFone Systems Inc. took another step Nov. 14 in its quest to break free of the constraints of the aging plastic card.

The U.S. is increasingly moving toward the EMV chip card standard as a panacea for credit card fraud, but it actually may be a Pandora's box.

VeriFone Systems Inc. is buying European payment and gateway services provider Point, the terminal maker announced Nov. 14.

Valve Corp., the company that provides the popular PC game platform Steam, disclosed Nov. 9 that it suffered a data breach this month.

Near the end of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s one-day payments symposium Sept. 26, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s Jamie Henry posed a question that had yet to be answered during the previous eight hours.

Mobile Money Network has landed a major retailer to participate in the initial phase of a mobile-payment software application launch that will enable United Kingdom consumers to purchase products for home delivery from any location by typing a product code into their phones, the London-based mobile commerce company announced Nov. 4.

Square Inc. continues to secure investors, and the latest one is bringing a lance to the table.

Bank of America Corp. is the second major card issuer to buck a recent smart card trend by structuring its EMV cards for U.S. commercial cardholders traveling abroad with chip-and-PIN technology instead of chip-and-signature.

Accertify Inc. will add its fraud-prevention program to the mobile-banking offerings of several Latin American banks after signing an agreement with payment processor Tik Tek Solutions, S. de R.L. de C.V, the fraud-prevention and risk-management provider announced Nov. 7.

Executives at Ingenico SA see an opportunity to boost the France-based payment-terminal maker’s market share in North America, where a shake-up has occurred over the past few months involving the region’s top two vendors.

Intuit Inc. has secured another partnership with a telecommunication company to sell its GoPayment software application and card reader.

The global point-of-sale payment terminal market is enjoying a technology boom as manufacturers peering just over the horizon see rampant demand for in-store devices that can accommodate both contactless payments and card transactions authenticated by EMV chip-and-PIN security protocols.

LAS VEGAS–The banking industry has lost the battle against debit interchange regulation several times over, but some executives are still fighting the good fight.

A glimpse of what some say represents the future of payments has arrived, but thus far only in certain geographic areas. With the Card Case smartphone application from Square Inc., consumers pay simply by saying their names at the point of sale.

LAS VEGAS–Mobile-wallet providers Google Inc. and Isis continue to position their products as more than just payments vehicles to replace plastic cards.