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At this week's Smart Card Alliance conferencetitled "The Roadmap to EMV Payments and Secure ID", the programleader for the UN...

On May 5, NetSpend Corp. announced that ithas signed a deal with Black Entertainment Television, LLC (BET) tomarket prepaid cards...

I never cease to beamazed by the opportunities for innovation in social media, limitedonly by one's imagination and willingness to...

Since the dawn of the bankcard industry, thecard payment acceptance market has grown in fits and starts as newmerchant categories...

At this week's Visa Security Summit, many in theaudience did a double take and smiled at Square's security lead SamQuigley's...

eBay, the sleepy online auction giant andproud parent of PayPal, has shaken off its lethargy. On March 28,eBay acquired GSI...

One of the terms most frequently connected tothe recent economic crisis was "systemic risk." In that context,systemic risk referred to...

Recently there has been some market chatter thatChina UnionPay's monopoly in the domestic payment card market inChina might be ending...

It should not be surprising at all thatPayPal is a global company providing online payment services acrossmany countries in addition...

For quite a while now, I've been readingabout BankSimple and their value proposition -"Banking Shouldn't beHard." Each time I read...