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PAAY Partners With Bluefin To Further Secure eCommerce Transactions

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Atlanta payments encryption firm Bluefin is partnering with New York mobile payments processor PAAY to advance eCommerce security. Founded in 2007 by Miles and John Perry, who serves as chief executive officer, Bluefin specializes in encryption and tokenization payment and data security. . also known as 3DS 2.0

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Visa Chip Cards Reduced Counterfeit Fraud By 87 Pct

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Visa announced that since their inception, chip cards have reduced counterfeit fraud by 87 percent. . Chip cards are increasingly becoming the norm as usage and acceptance has continued to grow since the EMV standard was first introduced in 2011,” the company said. Also down were overall card-present fraud rates.

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Deep Dive: How Payment Card Networks Win Merchants Over

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billion non-prepaid debit card transactions in 2018, solidifying debit as a staple payment type. They insert or swipe their debit cards at stores’ point-of-sale (POS) devices — or key in details online — and maybe enter PINs, but the behind-the-scenes processes through which transactions are routed are kept invisible. shoppers made 72.7

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Chip Card Shipments Top 2.3 Billion In 2017

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billion payment chip cards were shipped worldwide in 2017. While shipment volumes in China and the United States “continue to normalize,” contactless payment cards are more than 70 percent of shipments in “a growing number of territories,” the association said in an announcement. marking a twofold increase over 2014.

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Keeping Subscription Boxes Secure From STEM To Stern

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Such boxes represent a small segment of the broader subscription market, but they face the same challenges, including fraud attempts like card-and-wallet tests and account takeovers (ATOs). Box-of-the-month services constantly struggle to secure their payment processes and remain a step ahead of bad actors.

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Smart Payment Card Shipments Up 34 Percent

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is soaring the global demand for smart payment cards by as much as 34 percent, a new Smart Payment Association (SPA) report has found. billion chip cards were supplied — of which, 570 million were shipped to the U.S., These figures demonstrate how EMV is now a truly global, established, secure and interoperable infrastructure.

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CFPB issues request for information on consumer credit card market

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The CFPB has issued a new request for information about the credit card market that seeks comment on two related, but separate, reviews. The RFI includes citations to each of the CARD Act rules and further information about their content.). CARD Act Review. Section 610 Review. Debt relief and settlement.

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