E-Commerce

HMS will be at HostingCon 2012

HostingCon 2012 is right around the corner. And The Official Merchant Services Blog is pleased to announce that Host Merchant Services CEO Lou Honick will be there to participate in a panel discussion on the topic of Best Practices for Payment Processing. The discussion, scheduled for 9 a.m. Wednesday July 18, offers hosting providers tactics for reducing payment […]

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HMS Partners with ServInt

Today The Official Merchant Services Blog has learned of a new partnership agreement between Host Merchant Services and cloud hosting services provider. With HostingCon 2012 right around the corner, this partnership announcement is well-timed. Credit card processing firm Host Merchant Services has announced that it has entered into a strategic marketing partnership with ServInt. Servint is the latest provider

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News for Mobile Payments

Yesterday, The Official Merchant Services Blog defined the term Mobile Payment Processing for its readers. We bring this topic up frequently because it’s one of the hottest trends in credit card processing. Today we’re going to update our coverage of the topic. We have been framing almost every discussion of the topic around a set

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HMS Free Webinar!

The Official Merchant Services Blog has some breaking news to report. Host Merchant Services is offering its very first Webinar. On Tuesday June 12, 2012, at 10 a.m., CEO Lou Honick will be giving a 30-minute presentation on the Host Merchant Services Partnership Program as well as a quick introduction on how credit card processing

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Global Data Breach Update

Today The Official Merchant Services Blog is updating its coverage of the Global Payments Data Breach. The current update revolves around the expansion the duration of the breach as well as the number of cards potentially affected. It has been a virtual roller coaster ride in terms of narrowing down a number for the cards that were compromised.

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Merchant Services Assemble!

Today we’re going to take a flight of fancy with The Official Merchant Services Blog. It is Friday after all, and with a long holiday weekend about to start, we figure it’s just the perfect time to do something silly at the blog. With the Avengers movie setting box office records, the mighty month of

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MasterCard Site Tools

Today The Official Merchant Services Blog takes a close look today at card association juggernaut and industry titan MasterCard. A card association is a network of issuing banks and acquiring banks that process payment cards of a specific brand, and along with Visa, MasterCard is one of the big wigs in the industry — Card associations Visa and MasterCard each comprise over 20,000 card issuing

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