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Visa’s Merchant-Friendly EMV Moves

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EMV migration over the last seven months. million EMV merchant locations. Terminal certification has, so far, been a big barrier to making that possible, and the hue and cry across the ecosystem over the EMV certification backlog has now reached a fever pitch. Visa’s Quick Path To EMV. Changing Chargeback Economics.

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MasterCard Expands EMV Self-Certification Program

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It’s been a tough road on the way to EMV terminal deployment here in the U.S. It is important to streamline in order to get as many merchants running EMV terminals as possible, stated Aikat. And even though there’s been some forward progress : 1 million-plus merchants in the U.S.

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Creditcall Secures Five EMV Certifications

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Omnichannel payment gateway and EMV Kernel provider Creditcall announced on Wednesday (May 11) that it has achieved EMV certification with five major U.S. We have maintained our blistering EMV certification pace and added two new base certifications,” Jeremy Gumbley , CTO and CSO at Creditcall, said in a press release. “We

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Boosting EMV And Omnichannel, NMI Acquires Creditcall

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NMI , which provides payments enablement technology for independent sales organizations (ISOs), independent software vendors (ISVs) and value-added resellers (VARs), said Tuesday (Feb. 20) that it has agreed to acquire Creditcall , a payments gateway and EMV solutions provider based in Bristol, England.

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Visa Announces How It Wants To Help Merchants Accelerate EMV Chip Migration

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Earlier today Visa announced a handful of new moves aimed at pushing EMV chip adoption among merchants. Taken together, Visa believes the changes will help cut the EMV adoption timeline in half. After that point, the issuer picks up liability. Those two changes will remain on the books until April 2018.

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FortisPay Buys Swype To Expand AP, ERP Capabilities

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FortisPay boasts its commerce platform, Zeamster, which can help deliver multichannel experiences, cloud EMV with point-to-point encryption, a full recurring commerce functionality, integrated invoicing and cost optimization. FortisPay CEO Jimmy Nafso said the new agreement would be good for both companies.

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Integrated Payments, With Regulation In Mind

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Beyond the merchant experience, he added, VARs and ISVs are experiencing their own trends and have been actively partnering with nontraditional outlets for new sales channels. While we are on the global train, we are also providing a single global platform for EMV.”. One API will connect you to the countries that EVO serves.