Working for PayX places me firmly within the payments industry, but as someone who works in digital marketing I don’t personally possess a great knowledge of the actual workings behind payments technology. But thanks to all the recent innovation – I don’t need to! As a member of the general public I too watch with…
The industry analogy is that fraud is like a balloon, you squeeze the fraudsters in one area and they pop out somewhere else. Sometimes it’s predictable like when chip & PIN was introduced, already high CNP fraud rose still further and x-border fraud levels rose (though not as sharply and as quickly as had been…
Over the last 4 years we have seen the payments industry in “disruptive change”. Well established organisations have all been challenged by alternative players and all are moving through change cycle stages with varying degrees of speed and success. What appears to be most interesting now is that several of the established players are reaching…
The other day I came across this interesting article about cloning EMV cards it makes a number of pretty bold claims including the following: I differentiated pages instead using the EMV Unpredictable Number field – a 32 bit field that’s supposed to be unique to each transaction. I soon got muddled up… it turned out…
Visa Inc. and MasterCard recently announced plans to accelerate chip migration in the United States by 2015; long overdue some may say. This includes the initial approach of migrating the payment infrastructure over to accept EMV® and NFC technology (contactless). Additionally, most other payment infrastructures around the globe already have or are in the process…