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Tokenization’s Fast Rise Will Likely Attract Rivals for the Big Three Networks, Report Says

By John Stewart Just within the past year or so, tokenization has assumed a central role in digital payments, and in that business three major card networks are the dominant—indeed, only—players performing a crucial function known as the token service provider. But this new form of payment processing is moving …

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Tokenization Efforts May Not be as ‘Disjointed’ as They Appear, Says New Fed Report

There may be a number of competing definitions and products already in the market and under development, but the current state of payments tokenization may not be as out of whack as some may think. That’s the assessment of the latest report from the Mobile Payments Industry Workgroup, whose members …

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Tokenization Plays the Central Role in Visa’s New Cloud Payment Suite

Visa Inc. moved on Thursday to commercialize mobile payments using cloud-based near-field communication technology with its release of Visa Cloud Payment Solutions. A related development, the announcement of the upcoming debut of a tokenization service, is aimed at locking down cloud-based NFC and other digital payments. The new services include …

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Tokenization for E-Commerce Takes Key Step Forward with CardinalCommerce Patent

At a time when both banks and retailers are reeling from a rash of payment-data breaches, a technology company that has developed a system some believe could stop these breeches has announced that it has secured new patent protection for its technology. Mentor, Ohio-based CardinalCommerce Corp. said this week it …

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How Many Financial Institutions Can Fit on an ATM? Cardtronics Says up to 10

Financial institutions wanting to expand the number of ATMs their customers can use in retail locations without those customers paying surcharges have a new option available under an approach announced late last week by Houston-based Cardtronics Inc. While Cardtronics has for years offered financial institutions the ability to put their …

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