With the Oct. 1 EMV liability shift just six months away, banks and payment-card brands are beginning to get nervous about the slow uptake of EMV point-of-sale systems by smaller businesses. Part of the problem is complexity — small merchants don’t have IT departments, and...
Three payment firms announced on Tuesday (Aug. 19) that they were launching a PCI-friendly point-to-point encryption (P2PE) payment option. According to a joint release, Ingenico Group, FreedomPay and ScanSource, Inc. banded together to sell the package covering electronic payments made by magnetic stripe, EMV and...
More than 575 million U.S. payment cards will include EMV chips by the end of next year, according to a statement issued jointly from Visa and MasterCard on Wednesday (Aug. 13). That number is partially based on EMV shipment plans from nine key card issuers:...
May 20, 2015
Verifone has been put to the fire, as it were, and emerged secure. The payment transaction company announced today (May 20) that its end-to-end encryption and tokenization solution has passed an assessment by Coalfire Systems, a Payment Card Industry Qualified Security Assessor (PCI QSA). According to a company press release, Coalfire — as part of its […]
March 31, 2015
With the Oct. 1 EMV liability shift just six months away, banks and payment-card brands are beginning to get nervous about the slow uptake of EMV point-of-sale systems by smaller...
August 20, 2014
Three payment firms announced on Tuesday (Aug. 19) that they were launching a PCI-friendly point-to-point encryption (P2PE) payment option. According to a joint release, Ingenico Group, FreedomPay and ScanSource, Inc....