Friday , March 29, 2024

Yitz Mendlowitz

COMMENTARY: How a Shift to Online Explains the Square-Merchant Dustup

There’s been a lot of buzz around recent reports—notably one in The New York Times—that Square has been withholding money from merchants. Apparently, with little to no warning, the company has been holding back up to 30% of merchant sales in some cases. The merchants affected, obviously, aren’t pleased. With …

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COMMENTARY: How 3-D Secure 2.0 Will Change the Payments Industry

With the massive increase in e-commerce this year, and new merchants moving to an online model out of necessity, combating card-not-present fraud is incredibly important. EMV 3-D Secure 1.0 (or 3DS1) has been continually upgraded as technology and consumer habits changed; however, from its first iteration it has always had …

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