Law and Regulation

After years of soliciting input from more than 200 organizations in the payments industry, the PCI Security Standards Council Thursday published version 4.0 of the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). The new standard, which provides a baseline of technical and operational requirements designed to protect account data, replaces version …

The PCI Security Standards Council published version 4 of the PCI Data Security Standard. Features of the new standard include, among other changes, updated firewall terminology and a requirement to implement multi-factor authentication for access to the cardholder data environment.Processor Adyen said it is expanding beyond payments to offer embedded financial products, including Adyen …

Panini S.p.A., which has been expanding beyond its base in devices for image processing, said early Tuesday the Federal Bureau of Investigation has certified its fingerprint-authentication technology, called BioCred. The scanning technology meets image-quality specifications set by the FBI’s Appendix F standard, said to be the law-enforcement agency’s highest standard …

The European Union on Thursday advanced legislation to curb the power of tech companies, legislation that would force them to provide more billing options to consumers on their highly popular app stores. In related news, Google and the big music streaming service Spotify this week announced Spotify users with Android …

With the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau investigating the impact of buy now, pay later programs on consumers, the Electronic Transactions Association early Friday released a letter it hopes will help clarify the issues and help allay the regulator’s concerns about key issues such as debt accumulation, regulatory arbitrage, and data …

The popularity of debit cards for card-not-present transactions, particularly online payments, is surging, and a new proposal from an industry trade group could expand that popularity while preventing fraud and facilitating merchants’ transaction-routing choices. The proposal is contained in a white paper released Tuesday by the U.S. Payments Forum, an …

POSaBIT Systems Corp., a payments provider for the legal cannabis industry, today added Texas and Georgia to its roster of states in which the fintech operates. The expansion provides further confirmation of growing demand for electronic payments in marijuana dispensaries. Kirkland, Wash.-based POSaBIT said in a news release that it …

The buy now, pay later concept is nothing new, but it took on momentum during the pandemic and may now undergo unstoppable growth in the next few years, according to RBC equity analyst Dan Perlin, who analyzed data on BNPL contained in the 2022 Global Payments Report recently released by …

The world’s biggest card networks earlier this month reacted to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by closing their operations in Russia, and now some of the world’s biggest processors are beginning to report their exposure to those markets. For Paris-based Worldline S.A., it’s not trivial, but it’s not huge, either. …

A new, $1-million limit takes effect on Friday for same-day processing of automated clearing house transactions. The new cap, 10 times higher than the former one, is expected to open the ACH for faster processing of more large-value transfers and is seen as a landmark move toward faster payments as …