Top Ways Merchants Can Succeed During the Holidays in 2020
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This is an article about how Merchants can succeed during the 2020 Holidays
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Visa has an ambition to improve the world and minimize its environmental impact. Thus, they are collaborating with the CPI Card Group to produce ‘Earthwise High Content Card’ for Visa cardholders. The credit card, made of 98% upcycled plastic, would enable both contactless and contact payments. Besides this, the aim is to make cards EMV compliant with dual-interface
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With a predicted rush in 2020 for more merchants and customers to jump onto the contactless payment cards bandwagon, PSCU announced earlier this week that they are fully prepared to handle whatever will be coming their way over the following year. Having already rolled out more than half a million NFC (Near Field Communication) enabled
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PayPal has announced plans to introduce Venmo Credit Cards in the year 2020. This is going to be a strategic move aimed at improving peer-to-peer payment services with additional options that give users more benefits. PayPal has partnered with Synchrony to achieve this goal. PayPal, a foremost player in the peer-to-peer payment industry, will become
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The American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, has been defending individual rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, as well as by the laws of the United States of America for close to 100 years. Most recently, the ACLU turned its focus to cashless stores. Reasons ACLU Says No to Cashless Consistent with the ACLU’s
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Following the financial crisis of 2008 Congress won the ability to regulate swipe fees, or debit interchange fees, charged to retailers by Visa and Mastercard, as well as charged by the issuing financial institutions. This is all made possible under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, more specifically the Durbin
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The three largest credit card processing networks are preparing to increase their fees later this year, and this action could trigger a domino effect affecting banks, merchants and consumers. A report published by the Wall Street Journal on February 15 indicates that the increase could happen as early as April 2019, and it will be
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Chase has announced a partnership with Visa to bring tap-to-pay to its portfolio of credit cards. Over the next few months, millions of Chase cardholders will be able to experience the fast checkout experience with their credit card, not a digital wallet. Chase, the largest credit card issuer in the United States, will begin sending
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While plastic credit cards have been relied on by shoppers for decades, that may be changing in the near future. In light of identity theft and other similar issues, the concept of contactless mobile cards is beginning to gain steam. In fact, Visa, one of the leading credit card companies, is already getting behind this
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Europay, Mastercard, and Visa (EMV) chip card technology isn’t just a fad: it’s the future. More than 60% of credit cards issued in the United States today are EMV-enabled and old ATM cards are even being discontinued in favor of more secure chip technology. EMV-enabled debit and credit cards have computer chips that offer far
The payment processing landscape has changed dramatically over the last decade with the rise of NFC technology and mobile payment platforms but the industry isn’t gone transforming in response to new technology, competition, and changing consumer demands. Here are some of the biggest trends in the payment industry and how merchant services providers, card issuers,
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As consumer spending trends, security threats and technology change, credit card issuers like banks, credit unions and partner retailers and credit card companies keep pace with these changes in a variety of ways. New trends typically involve updates designed to make the use of credit cards more attractive to consumers and create strong, long-term issuer
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PCI compliance is an essential component of payment processing and security. When signing up for merchant services, it pays to ensure your provider offers PCI compliant solutions to reduce liability in a data breach and avoid steep fines. Here’s what you should know about what PCI compliance really means and why it’s important for your
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When it comes to credit card processing, there are essentially two ways to process a debit or credit card payment: in person through contactless, swipe, or chip technology or through keyed entry. These transactions are called Card Not Present (CNP) transactions when the card or cardholder is not present, even if the physical card is
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If you work in the hospital, government or education industry it is important that you know OptBlue has changed their pricing. As a result, more merchant services can take advantage of what the company has to offer. There are now wholesale fees charged to merchants in government and education. When it comes to education and
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When it comes to the credit card processing your business does have you ever considered using virtual credit cards? This is simply a digital number that represents a plastic credit card. With the right card, your customers can often decide in advance the maximum amount that can be charged to the card. They also have
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Today, credit card processing for businesses is based on EMV chip technology. PIN debit and EMV acceptance is a must for any veterinarian that accepts credit cards. Payment Processing Services and Equipment Why should I accept credit cards? Think of the staff hours spent preparing invoices and manually processing checks. Accepting credit and debit card
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After EMV – Was it Successful? The introduction of chip technology in credit cards in the United States was designed to increase information security and reduce credit card fraud. The US EMV (Europay, Mastercard, Visa) liability shift in 2015 was meant to encourage merchants to adopt the technology quickly and it means that merchants or
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