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Contactless Payments: Touch to Pay? Here’s What It Is

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The pandemic has compelled us to go “contactless” in just about everything we do. It’s hardly surprising that contactless cards and mobile payments have become a far superior alternative to using cash, swiping/dipping cards, or keying in your card number to make payments.

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EMV Chip Cards: What You Need to Know About PIN or Signature Cards and How They Work

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EMV (Europay, Mastercard, and Visa) chip card use has continued to expand in use since its tumultuous rollout in 2015. The EMV standard has now become a global standard for cards equipped with computer chips and the technology used to authenticate chip-card transactions.

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How Adopting Mobile Payments Can Help Your Business Grow in 2024

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Fast forward to now where much has changed, and research anticipates contactless mobile payments to exceed one billion users globally by 2024. Customers can pay with their watch or phone just by tapping it on a card reader, and businesses can host an entire POS system on a mobile phone.

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Why Connected Consumers Crave Contactless Payments

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From barter, to cash, to eCommerce, and now, to contactless payments – even those enabled by voice command. The steady drumbeat of tech has brought purchasing from bills and coins to cards and contactless payments – done across all manner of devices and through pushes, taps, swipes and waves, at any time.

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Tap to Pay: What It Is and How It Works

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Magnetic stripe payments enjoyed a 30-year reign between the ’70s and ’90s. EMV chip card technology had a good two decades or so, beginning in the mid-’90s. And the winner of the 2010s and beyond is the NFC-powered, contactless sensation that is tap-to-pay.

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Issuers have a path to beat Apple Pay

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The EMV migration includes support for chip cards and NFC contactless payments, giving banks room to compete in the contactless payments market just in time for wearables to take off.

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Mobile Credit Card Processing Explained: What Business Owners Need to Know

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According to Forbes , “mobile payments are increasingly being used by U.S. Not only are there a number of ways your customers could be using their mobile devices to give payments, but you as a business owner could be leveraging mobile devices to accept them as well. Understanding what you want is the hardest part.