Can a phone replace your wallet? I went shopping to find out.
Google Wallet, PayPal, and Apple Pay are all mobile payment leaders with substantial clout, but even they struggle to get merchants to invest in the tech that enables tap-to-pay transactions. There's also SoftCard, a mobile payments solution from AT&T …
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NRG Energy's (NRG) CEO David Crane on Q3 2014 Results – Earnings Call …
We urge everyone to review the Safe Harbor statement provided in today's presentation as well as the risk factors contained in our SEC filings. We undertake no obligation to update these …. This again highlights the value of our balanced portfolio …
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'City Is Still in Distress': Detroit Bankruptcy Trial Opens
On June 17 of this year, at just before midnight, the Budi Mesra Dua was overcome by a high-speed wooden boat as she steamed slowly with a cargo of diesel oil, according to an account from ReCAAP. Six pirates armed with swords tied down the crew of the …
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Ready for Battle
Risks impacting retailers' information technology systems and data breaches “are at an all-time high,” according to the 2014 BDO Retail Risk Factor Report. Since 2009, the number of retailers citing concerns over data security has more than doubled …
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Question by Ysabel K: Is a wireless terminal for a high risk merchant account better than a manual imprinter?
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Wireless terminals are more expensive than manual imprinters but are greatly useful to high risk merchants. They are efficient credit card terminals that let you know immediately whether a transaction is authorized or not. Manual imprinters are rather cheaper but work best with bulk orders.
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High–risk industries can now accept online credit card payments and secure a …
UltimateMerchantProviders.com have a newly launched service that aims to help businesses that operate within so called 'high-risk' industries secure merchant accounts more easily in order to enable them to accept debit and credit card payments as well …
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Marijuana Merchants Denied Bank Accounts
Ryan Kunkel is a legal marijuana merchant and owns several dispensaries in the Seattle area. But because banks are worried about the implications of being in professional cahoots with "drug dealers," many—incuding state-chartered ones—are denying …
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100BestMerchantAccounts.com Names Top 3 Merchant Account Providers for …
A few things to consider when reviewing merchant account services: setup fees, processing rates, and other account service fees. Some merchants specialize in international merchant accounts, high-risk merchants, small business services, or other …
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Visa Debuts Chip Card Campaign
“The adoption of chip technology has the potential to virtually eliminate counterfeit fraud when widely adopted, and will help consumers feel more confident about using their payment cards,” Ellen Richey, chief enterprise risk officer at Visa, said …
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Medicine Prices At Risk Under Pacific Trade Draft: Critics
The 77-page draft chapter, dated May 16, showed a push to extend protection for drugs and other medicines which would keep prices high for longer and delay the introduction of cheaper generic alternatives, according to legal experts and groups …
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Apple Pay hits US stores Monday — assuming buyers can find anywhere to use it
A person's account information, including the 16-digit card number, is not stored on the phone or with the merchant, according to the credit card companies and Apple. Instead, token technology allows a unique digital Device Account Number to be …
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Justice Department probes banks for fraud
Critics say the heightened scrutiny and threat of prosecution will lead banks and payment processors to stop doing business with any merchant considered to be high-risk. And without those financial services, law-abiding companies, not just a few bad …
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Ten Things Never To Do When Designing A Fraud Solution
3-D Secure, a protocol designed to help online merchants reduce the incidences of fraud online was designed to do just that. But 3-D Secure has often been criticized for … 6. Score + Rules = Winning Strategy. A sophisticated scoring system along with …
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Mobile-Enabled Commerce Will Yield The Next 0B Startup
Companies in the Mobile Payments and Retail Enablement categories like Square and RetailMeNot capitalized early on the transition to mobile by building new businesses or reinventing old businesses to take advantage of growing merchant and consumer …
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Bricks and 'clicks' can co-exist
We are all aware of the stats that identify the exponential growth of online sales, but the fact remains that even in the most mature markets they account for below 10 per cent of aggregate sales. … What started as a personal relationship between a …
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Fitch Affirms Redecard's IDR at 'BBB+'; Outlook Stable
They account for about 32% of the Brazilian banking system. Redecard's affiliation with these leading banks gives it access to their broad customer base to acquire merchants accounts and creates high barriers to entry. The penetration of credit and …
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House Small Business Committee Hearing
As a result, it could be argued that small businesses that blindly accept Bitcoin are not actually in commerce but are in the high-risk speculative trading business. In contrast to small businesses, a Wall Street trading company might be willing to …
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How Conservative Media's Conspiracy Targeted An Anti-Fraud Program
Based on the suspicion that some banks — acting with knowledge or willful blindness — conducted business with fraudulent merchants or those merchants' third-party payment processors, an assistant United States attorney drafted a proposal to …
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Is the government choking off financial services for businesses it doesn't like?
… Choke Point as the reason why their banks canceled their accounts. Paranoid? Maybe not. Both industries were on a list of 30 industries associated with a high risk of fraudulent activity issued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 2011 …
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An Overview of American Express And Our Price Estimate
Acquiring Bank of the Merchant – processes the credit card transaction for the merchant. Interchange Rate – paid to the issuing bank for lending credit and undertaking the associated risk. Network Services Provider Fees – to compensate for the costs …
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Guardian Data Systems Named Second Best High Risk Processing Agency by …
The independent authority on merchant services, topcreditcardprocessors.com, has named Guardian Data Systems the 2nd best high risk processing service for May 2014. Guardian Data Systems was selected due to their effective performance in the …
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Porn Proceeds too Hot to Handle for Banks
In addition to possible reputational risk, these businesses are at high risk for chargebacks, explained Stephen Brudner, managing director of Merchant Services Consulting Group, a company offering payment-processing for high-risk businesses, including …
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Is Obama Really Forcing Banks to Close Porn Stars' Accounts? No, Says Chase …
Last month, porn star Teagan Presley told Vice that JPMorgan Chase & Co. closed her account because the bank considered her "high-risk." Then, on Wednesday, porn director David Lord told the Daily Beast that Chase sent him a letter notifying him that …
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