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Mobile Payments Eclipse EMV for Small Business: Report

Payments Source

Large merchants are EMV-ready, but they're less likely to support NFC-based mobile payments; the opposite is true for smaller merchants.

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EMV 3DS: Why 2020 Is Different

PYMNTS

For instance, large merchants who want to do business in Europe will have to start offering 3DS to take payments. That means it is possible for there to be a shift for 3DS transactions to become the secure and safe method while face-to-face EMV without a pin becomes the questionable mechanism.”.

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EMV’s Slow Crawl Into Retail

PYMNTS

Last year, starting in about August, the big EMV countdown was underway — though the question as to whether they were going to “make it” was already answered. 1, around half of “big retailers” had EMV while smaller retailers were clocking in at 10 percent to 33 percent, depending on whose count one liked. They weren’t.

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How Discover is tapping into niche consumer segments as a pathway for growth

Tearsheet

While it offers targeted benefits and discounts, the reliance on this limited payment method often constrains the number and diversity of merchants willing to operate on base. This creates a significant opportunity for merchants on the Discover network to engage with a new niche market. Existing cardholder perks will stay in place.

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Eyeing Payments And Commerce, Verifone’s 1Q Meets Street With 11 Percent Services Growth

PYMNTS

Excluding the headwinds brought on by the North America Petro EMV push-out and last year’s terminal sale surge in India, the remaining systems business revenue grew [by] double digits year-over-year in the period.” In addition to reaffirming fiscal year targets, said the executive, systems revenue declined as expected versus last year.

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Square And Apple: Who Is The Big Winner Of Their Payments Pair-Up?

PYMNTS

Square’s POS system was included a very elegant NFC/EMV chip reader — Apple Pay accepted as part of that package. Square is encouraging their merchants to accept Apple Pay — and maybe to even get consumers to want to use it. .” The unofficial account is that the acquiree wanted more money than the acquirers wanted to spend.

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Merchants Gone Wild: The Surcharge Edition

PYMNTS

At that moment, all the speed and convenience of making EMV faster and activating tap-and-go at checkout goes *poof*. may find themselves faced with another checkout hassle: merchants adding a cost that covers their processing fees. Soon, consumers in many states in the U.S. Yet the bad behavior persisted.

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