As with all forms of payment, businesses that accept credit cards face an inherent level of risk. Hackers and thieves make a career of figuring out ways to steal your customers’ credit card details so ...

Square Inc. may have more incentive than other acquirers in urging merchant clients to accept EMV-chip cards, but its pricing strategy could deter some from adopting the secure technology. Square has ...

Explore how magnetic stripe cards work, their vulnerabilities, and why chip cards are a more secure alternative. Learn the ...

Sound Payments Inc., a multichannel technology provider that offers point-of-sale solutions for the petroleum industry, expects its partnership with National Retail Solutions, a subsidiary of IDT Corp ...

Merchants may have some difficulty switching to EMV cards next year, but at least they'll have a range of options when it comes to payment terminals. Square is debuting its affordable chip card reader ...

Discover the history of card payment security and learn how biometrics are increasing the security of card payments Futuristic advances in payment technology are being deployed across the world.

With almost 18 months to go, the petroleum industry is having a hard time with a crucial EMV deadline. Not many gas stations are expected to make it. Here’s why. It’s halftime in the runup to the ...

ISOs and agents will play a key role in teaching America how to use EMV cards, an executive at a payment-terminal provider says. After all, change doesn’t always come easily in the land that failed to ...

Card-not-present fraud incidents are growing, and this is an area of fraud that many companies are trying to address. While EMV smartcards are commonly deployed with unconnected readers to generate ...

Credit and debit cards with EMV chips have been around for five years now, except at gas stations. That’s because it is a lot harder to change card readers in gas pumps — where it may require breaking ...

Merchants can’t eliminate fraud entirely, but they can reduce the expense of unauthorized credit card transactions. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising ...