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Visa pushes ahead with NFC-enabled phones
The NFC movement continues to heat up, though the near-term prognosis remains a bit murky. Visa has moved forward with its NFC efforts, announcing that some smartphones are now equipped with the...
Legal liabilities loom for card companies
The perennial dispute between the big banks and the card processing network kingpins, notably Visa and MasterCard, seemed to crest in 2011 with the passage of the Durbin Amendment.
The severe cut in the interchange fee paid by retailers to banks was a watershed event and many think that the bi
More on PCI tokenization issues
The great promise of tokenization in a PCI-DSS environment is that you get the benefits of end-to-end encryption with a technology that in theory is much simpler and cheaper.
As with a lot of technologies, Tokenization adoption has been difficult in part because of a lack of standards. Lots of
Can Visa sustain momentum of EMV-enabled cards?
The conventional wisdom for the longest time has been that EMV card systems wouldn't appear domestically because card companies wouldn't offer the technology until merchants could use it, while
The future of online payments is mobile payments
We've suggested before that online banking is still far from fully formed, which represents a challenge for all entities betting that mobile banking represents the next big payments paradigm. For a
PayPal most trusted digital wallet payment service
As the digital wallet race unfolds, we're seeing the credit card companies assert themselves with more vigor. Witness the American Express and Visa announcements as of late. PayPal has basked in the
Visa's digital wallet has massive ambitions
To some, Visa seemed like a laggard in the emerging alternative payments industry. This wasn't fair, but it was easy to buy into the notion that dominant companies have a nearly impossible task when
American Express launches new Revolution Money platform
Is it futile to compete with PayPal? That's not easy to answer, but it will be interesting to watch a traditional payment company, American Express, try to make in-roads against an acknowledged
Google aims for NFC pole position
Not too long ago, we took a big-picture look at the emerging market for mobile payments, with a focus on near-field communications activity. We listed the key players --telcos, big banks, PayPal, card
Visa aims for digital wallet
Some believe that a payments revolution is underway, one that will upend the controversial business model of the behemoth credit and debit card companies that are so powerful. We've discussed the
