Archives for October, 2014
It is a given that damage to a retailer’s reputation is one of the biggest negative outcomes from a big
Posted in Best Practices for Merchants Tagged with: bankcard account, consumers, credit monitoring services, customer service, data breach, password/PIN
A partial authorization request enables an issuer to approve an amount that is lower than the total transaction amount in
Posted in Best Practices for Merchants Tagged with: bank card, card balance, cash, check card, debit cards, merchant, partial authorization, payment form, payment processing, point of sale, POS terminal, prepaid and check, transaction
The U.S. government will replace roughly 9 million government-issued payment cards with EMV chip-and-PIN versions early next year in a
Posted in Best Practices for Merchants, Credit Card Security, EMV EuroPay MasterCard Visa, Payment Card Industry PCI Security Tagged with: American Express, bank, Chip and PIN, chip and signature, credit cards, data security, debit card fraud, debit cards, EMV, emv cards, EMV conversion, financial transactions, magnetic data stripe, MasterCard, Merchant's, payment cards, Payments Security, POS conversion, POS devices, POS equipment, POS terminals, retail payments, visa
Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might. (Ecclesiastes 9:10) Any type of work can be constructive and
Posted in Daily Inspiration
Another day, another corporate data breach. Business owners are now aware that cyber criminals are becoming increasingly smart and sophisticated
Posted in Best Practices for Merchants Tagged with: consumers, credit card breach, credit card information, customers, data, data breach, device, Security, website
Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have boldness before God; and we receive from him whatever we
Posted in Daily Inspiration
Non-cash payments volumes are expected to increase by nearly 10% percent to reach 366 billion transactions in 2013, fueled by
Posted in Best Practices for Merchants Tagged with: card, card interchange fees, consumer, e-payments, global payments, m-payments, Mobile Devices, Mobile Payments, Non-cash payments, payments platform, payments processing, Payments Services Providers, psps, real-time payments, retail payments, Smartphones, tablets, transactions
This 300-year-old coin around my neck. It was off of a Spanish Shipwreck known as the Shipwreck of 1715. When
Posted in Best Practices for Merchants Tagged with: banks, business owner, currency, customer, financial institutions, Merchant's, purchases, transactions
When the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) launched PCI DSS v3.0 in January 2014, businesses were given one year
Posted in Best Practices for Merchants, Credit Card Security, Payment Card Industry PCI Security Tagged with: (PCI SSC), call centers, cardholder data, consumers, credit-card, customers, data breaches, data security assessments, Data Security Standard, e-commerce breaches, e-commerce businesses, e-commerce merchant's website, electronic payments, global data security, global standard, Merchant's, merchant’s website, mobile, networks, payment, payment card data, Payment Card Industry, payment providers, PCI Security Standards Council, PCI-DSS, Penetration testing, Service providers, shopping cart, software solutions, web hosting, website
Approximately $350 billion in housing rent is written out on checks or given in cash annually and until now more
Posted in Best Practices for Merchants, Mobile Payments Tagged with: card, cash, checks, credit, credit score, customers, debit, debit card, email, housing rent, payments, phone, renters