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Visa’s Pollitt: Regulatory Focus Globally Centered On Two Key Issues
Visa’s Pollitt: Regulatory Focus Globally Centered On Two Key Issues
March 17, 2014  |  Cool

Cybersecurity and debit represent the two major common themes as it relates to recent regulatory attention globally, a top official at Visa noted in a...

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New Security Group A Good Move, But Let’s Keep The Discussions Open
New Security Group A Good Move, But Let’s Keep The Discussions Open
March 17, 2014  |  Hmmm

You know the problem is serious when Visa and MasterCard come together on something. And the recent spate of merchant data breaches and fraud is...

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Chase Paymentech’s Charron: Fraud Battle Involves Addressing Entire Payments Ecosystem
Chase Paymentech’s Charron: Fraud Battle Involves Addressing Entire Payments Ecosystem
March 17, 2014  |  CEO Series

  When managing fraud, processors, acquirers and merchants should look at the entire ecosystem of the transaction activity, not just the point-of-sale solution. And once...

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Friday Factoids
Friday Factoids
March 17, 2014  |  Cool

Did you know that 60 percent of employers say recent college graduates are poorly socialized and lacking in basic workplace competencies? That almost a third...

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For InfoScout, Consumer-Buying Data Is Just A Receipt Image Away
For InfoScout, Consumer-Buying Data Is Just A Receipt Image Away
March 17, 2014  |  CEO Series

  One of the most difficult things marketers come across is trying to gather consumer payments and buying trend data across multiple merchants. A 2-year-old...

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Receipts Help Tablet Company Turn A New Leaf
Receipts Help Tablet Company Turn A New Leaf
March 17, 2014  |  CEO Series

Before Aron Schwarzkopf launched Leaf, creator of the purpose-built LeafPresenter point-of-sale tablet, he was obsessed with the concept of the paper receipt. He thought it...

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Millennials Say ‘Meh’ to Banks
Millennials Say ‘Meh’ to Banks
March 17, 2014  |  Commentary

Uh oh. More bad news for the banks. And this time it doesn’t come from the regulators. The source of bad news is the Millennial...

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How Cash Rings the Revenue Line for Cardtronics
How Cash Rings the Revenue Line for Cardtronics
March 17, 2014  |  CEO Series

For years, there have been efforts to do away with the use of paper cash and checks and replace them with more efficient electronic means...

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