Credit Card Swiping Fees Remain a Mystery for Merchants
For consumers, swiping the credit card to pay for goods and services has become a modern day convenience but for retailers, swiping the card may be a bit more like a game of chance. Merchants never...
View ArticleiZettle Releases New Credit Card Payment Device that Now Accepts Visa
Mobile card payments startup iZettle has just released a new chip and pin credit card payment device that now makes it possible for merchants to accept debit and credit card payments on their...
View ArticleYour Smartphone May Soon Replace Your Wallet [Infographic]
Smartphones are not only changing the way consumers shop but also the way they look at the need to carry wallets and even credit cards. An infographic entitled, Goodbye Wallets! takes a look at the...
View ArticleSprouts Farmers Market Hit by Credit Card Terminal Breach – Customers Alerted...
Sprouts Farmers Market, a privately owned chain of specialty grocery stores, is reporting that some of their customers who shopped their Southern California or Arizona stores during the month of...
View ArticleLive Fingerprints to Help Protect Consumers from Fraud
There’s a new technology in the work that may soon make it more difficult for thieves to steal your personal identity. Students at the School of Mines and Technology in western South Dakota are...
View ArticleMasterCard Launches New Digital Wallet – MasterPass
This year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is off to a big start with MasterCard’s announcement that it is launching its new digital wallet called MasterPass. The new service will allow consumers...
View ArticleAmericans Still Burdened by Credit Card Debt
While the economy may be seeing some signs of recovery, individual Americans may not be faring so well when it comes to their finances. Savings have been severely depleted and credit card debt for many...
View ArticlePayPal’s Max Levchin Launches Mobile Payments Startup Affirm
Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal has launched Affirm, a new mobile payments startup. According to Kara Swisher of All Things D, Levchin has described his company as a digital charge card as opposed to...
View ArticleVisa Teams with Samsung to Offer Smartphones with Preloaded Mobile Wallets
The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona got off to a big start yesterday with MasterCard’s announcement of the launch of MasterPass, a digital wallet that will allow consumers to conveniently store all...
View ArticleMumbai Credit Card Industry Projected to see Growth in the Year Ahead
The use of plastic over cash to pay for goods and services continues to grow around the world and Mumbai is no exception. After four years of rather slow growth, it looks like the credit card industry...
View ArticleYoung Adults Facing Life Long Credit Card Debt
Recent research says that millennials, also known as generation Y or those born in the first part of the 1980s are using credit cards more and taking longer to pay off that debt. The study from Ohio...
View ArticleMobile Payments may Spell the End of the Cash Register
The cash register may soon become obsolete. At least that’s the picture that those at this year’s Mobile World Conference in Barcelona would like to paint. In fact says James Wester, writer for Fast...
View ArticlePayment Provider Pastiq Raises $6 Million in Funding
Boston-based online payments solution provider, Plastiq has raised $6 million in series A funding in a round led by Atlas Venture and Flybridge Capital Partners bringing the total funding to $8.35...
View ArticleWhy You Need to Switch to Credit Card Processing & Accept Credit Cards Today
Credit cards have offered the most convenient forms of payment for more than half a century. In light of the recent mobile boom, the ability to pay for anything from virtually any location has made it...
View ArticleDiscover Launches Discover it – The Credit Card with No Annual Fees
Discover has laid their cards on the line in 2013 with their game changing credit card, the “Discover it” card. Described as “fair, generous, flexible and human” the card has no annual fees, no over...
View ArticleThe New Technology in Credit Card Security
Credit card fraud continues to be a growing concern for consumers, retailers and credit card companies alike. By late 2012 the total losses due to stolen cards and identity theft stood at $6 billion....
View ArticleVisa and RIM Team up to Offer NFC BlackBerry
NFC or near field communication has been around for a while now but BlackBerry users will have the opportunity to take advantage of this technology. Research in Motion (RIM) says it will soon make it...
View ArticleCommerce Bank offers more Security with Chip-Enabled Visa Signature Credit Card
Commerce Bank says it will be making it easier and more secure for Visa Signature Credit Card customers to pay for goods and services while traveling abroad. The new card has an embedded Europay,...
View Article2013 Recommendations for Businesses Accepting Credit Cards
Phoenix Arizona based Capital Processing Network, a credit card processing and merchant services company recently offered some timely tips for retailers on accepting credit cards. A number of new...
View ArticleWashington D.C. Taxi Cabs Required to Accept Credit Cards by March 31
New regulations will soon make it necessary for Washington D.C. taxi drivers to accept credit cards. The new rules which will take effect March 31 were slated for an earlier date but were put on hold...
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