First Data Corp. on Friday said it is joining the market for card readers that plug into mobile phones. Its latest entry in its Clover line of point-of-sale technology is Clover Go, a credit and debit ...

Before school started, our family needed to go shopping for clothes and supplies, but especially for backpacks. Our daughter had her backpack for several years and it was hanging on by a thread. Our ...

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Shopify Inc. is often thought of as a platform for smaller e-commerce merchants, but it offers processing services for some 65,000 physical-world sellers, as well, and on Thursday it unveiled a new ...

With the arrival of Apple Pay and, more recently, Android Pay, consumers are becoming more comfortable with alternative ways of paying that don’t involve credit card swipes. And now, with the U.S.’s ...

There are now billions of EMV-enabled cards in the world, but they are not foolproof and can be made more secure through new authentication technologies. In most retailers today, customers don’t swipe ...

No official movement is afoot to switch to EMV in the U.S., which is becoming increasingly Balkanized as the only major global region not moving to the more-secure chip-and-PIN technology. But a Visa ...

The 73S1215F is a versatile and economical CMOS System-on-Chip device intended for smart card reader applications. The circuit features an ISO 7816 / EMV interface, an USB 2.0 interface (full-speed ...

MasterCard International’s new OneSMART PayPass, an EMV-based smart card featuring the M/Chip, will enable customers in regions where EMV smart cards predominate, such as Europe, to gain more benefits ...

My post on 'should we have chip only payment cards?' gave rise to some discussion and debate, and many thanks to all those concerned for their views and comments. The related website poll conducted by ...

The big switch from traditional magnetic strip credit cards to the new chip-based Europay, Mastercard and Visa, or EMV, cards is coming. According to PaymentWeek, U.S. banks will replace more than 70 ...