Shopify Inc. is often thought of as a platform for smaller e-commerce merchants, but it offers processing services for some 65,000 physical-world sellers, as well, and on Thursday it unveiled a new ...

With as many as 5 million mobile point-of-sale readers in circulation in the United States, mobile POS companies will have their hands full following the liability shift set for October 2015 when the ...

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 ...

With the arrival of Apple Pay and, more recently, Android Pay, consumers are becoming more comfortable with alternative ways of paying that don’t involve credit card swipes. And now, with the U.S.’s ...

A proclamation released by President Obama on September 30th has given October of 2015 the distinction of being National Cyber Security Awareness Month, which involves a month-long series of outreach ...

You might think as a technology compliance consultant that we spend the majority of our time pouring over complicated regulatory documents and network configurations. Well, that’s not quite the case.

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Under the initiative, the banks will be providing up to 20,000 ...

As the deadline looms to implement Europay, MasterCard and Visa chip credit card readers, some small-business owners are still unsure of how the technology works. An online survey of small-business ...

Some card details on this page may be out of date. You may have noticed that most card readers at your local grocery or retail store ask you to insert -- instead of swipe -- a credit card now. Many ...

To get you prepared for the transition to EMV, here are eight essential questions to ask: 1. What are EMV cards anyway and what makes them safer? EMV (short for Europay, MasterCard, Visa) cards are ...

If you've recently received a new credit card equipped with a shiny little microprocessor chip, you might feel a twinge of panic. If your old card was working fine, you wonder, why did your issuer ...