Wonderful Wearables by Tom McCole One of the amazing things about retail payment technology is the rapid rate of change and development of new products and business models. In the not-so-distant past, we have migrated from carrying cash for purchases to paying with plastic cards. We evolved from knuckle-busting imprinters and manual lookup of bad…
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Scamscope 2024 Report: The Battle for Trust APP scams are predicted to hit $7.6bn by 2028 and are on the rise in every country featured in this year’s report by ACI Worldwide. Download the report to gain use cases from the U.S., U.K., India, Brazil, Australia, and the UAE to help build a secure payments…
PAXCON 2024 by Tom McCole Despite my domestic tranquility administrator’s objections, I willingly took a break this week from my annual deciduous tree refuse relocation tasks to attend my third Pax Conference in Orlando. I can state with certainty that it was well worth putting the leaf blower back on the shelf and heading…
Maintaining Data Security in E-Commerce Goes Far Beyond PCI Compliance By Glenn Goldberg E-commerce merchants are understandably giddy as the Holiday season approaches. According to estimates published by Deloitte, online sales are projected to reach a staggering $259 billion between September 2024 and January 2025, up a healthy nine percent over the previous year. Unfortunately,…
From Bedrock to the 21st Century: A Wrap-up of ETA’s TRANSACT 2024 by Tom McCole Having been in and around the card payments industry seemingly since Wilma and Betty shouted the first “Charge It” in Bedrock, I have attended and exhibited at numerous ETA events under various corporate flags. My first event was at the…