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Understanding POS Security: Protecting Your Business and Customer Data

VISTA InfoSec

Given this recent wave of cyberattacks, all small businesses must do their part to secure their Point of Sale (POS) systems from unauthorized parties. Don’t Allow Swiped Transactions You may want to avoid processing older magnetic stripe cards in favor of Near Field Communication (NFC) and EMV chip cards.

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Merchants, Online Fraud And The 3DS 2.0 Reset

PYMNTS

or “EMV 3DS”) has been a rocky road. The EMV 3DS is uniquely qualified to help merchants keep their chargeback rates down,” McCutcheon said. That] keeps them from getting in trouble with the card brands, and obviously avoids the significant costs that come along with fighting, investigating and resolving chargebacks.

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Theory Of Payments Evolution: EMV Will Get Better With Age

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Such is the case with EMV — the chip that allows customers to pay with a credit card by inserting or “dipping” it into a point-of-sale (POS) card reader instead of swiping the old mag stripe. merchants are EMV-enabled. But fraud liability isn’t all that the EMV shift has changed.

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Challenges in the card payment industry—Navigating a rapidly changing landscape

The Payments Association

The rise of online shopping, contactless payments, and mobile wallets has increased the number of points where fraud can occur. While technologies like EMV chip cards (chip & pin), tokenisation, and biometrics have been developed to enhance security, fraudsters continue to adapt.

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At The POS Of The Future, Consumers Will Pay With Sound

PYMNTS

In 2013, Silicon Valley startup Clinkle raised $25 million in funding to build the point-of-sale (POS) system of the future using sound, but the company later changed trajectories, creating more of a Venmo-like product primarily aimed at college students. Innovators in South Korea, France, Israel and the U.K.,

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Worldpay Launches Worldpay Total In The US

PYMNTS

Connecting and simplifying payments across sales channels through a single integration point, Worldpay Total delivers end-to-end payment processing by combining point-of-sale (POS), integrated payments and acquiring for integrated software vendors (ISVs) and merchants. Worldpay announced Wednesday (Oct.

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Understanding Credit Card Processing Fees for Merchants: How Much Does Processing Credit Cards Cost?

Stax

The steps to process a credit card transaction Step 1: Authorization Request The process initiates when a customer presents their credit card for payment. The merchant’s point-of-sale (POS) system sends an authorization request to the acquiring bank (also known as the merchant bank) via a payment gateway.