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November, 2016

• 1 November

  A Year Later, Most Consumers Are Still Confused About EMV

  

  A year into the migration to EMV chip cards, most consumers—83%—still are unsure of whether to dip or swipe their chip-enabled credit or debit cards at the point of sale. That statistic comes from a survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers commissioned by payments specialist Cayan LLC and conducted by Research …
• 1 November

  Machine Learning Gets Hot, While Mobile Apps Cool off

  

  While the payments business is caught up these days in working out strategies for mobile apps and social media, it turns out these aren’t the cutting-edge technologies they once were. Instead, fields like virtual reality, machine learning, and natural language are winning the spotlight. That’s according to a study that …
• 1 November

  Though More Consumers Shop in Stores, Most Research Online First: Survey

  

  Consumers may shop in stores more than they do online, but for most—93%—the research into these purchases is taking place online, finds a survey released Tuesday by Revel Systems, an iPad-based point-of-sale system provider. More consumers, 86%, shopping in person at least twice in the month proceeding the July survey …
• 1 November

  With a Sharp Rise Already in Online Fraud Attacks, Look for a Worrisome Holiday Season

  

  By John Stewart @DTPaymentNews If the payments industry is expecting a sharp rise in online fraud, it can stop holding its breath. It’s already happening, and with the official holiday-shopping season getting under way, it’s going to get a lot worse. Yet, just as attacks are growing more numerous, funding …
• 1 November

  Co-Op Financial Services in Bill Pay Deal and other Digital Transactions News briefs

  • Boosted by its November 2015 acquisition of software developer SunGard, processor Fidelity National Information Services Inc. (FIS) reported third-quarter revenues of $2.31 billion, up 46.2% from a year earlier. Revenues grew 3.8% on an organic basis. • Co-Op Financial Services said it will provide its online bill-payment application to …
• 1 November

  Square Sees Volume Shift To Big Merchants, Pushes for Faster EMV Transactions

  Merchant acquirer Square Inc. started out offering credit and debit card acceptance to tiny businesses and part-time sellers who wanted to accept plastic, but volume from Square’s biggest merchants grew 55% year-over-year in the third quarter and now accounts for 43% of Square’s gross volume. Square, which refers to all …
• 1 November

  Digital Transactions November 2016

  

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• 1 November

  Kohl’s Pay: A Marriage of Payments and Offers in One Wallet

  

  Kohl’s Corp. joins the ranks of retailers with their own mobile-wallet services with the launch last month of Kohl’s Pay. Menomonee Falls, Wis.-based Kohl’s said the barcode mobile-payment service exclusively uses the private-label Kohl’s Charge card as the payment mechanism in more than 1,100 Kohl’s stores. To use Kohl’s Pay, …
• 1 November

  Only One Direction for ATM Fees: Up

  

  Consumers continue to pay higher fees for out-of-network ATM transactions, but have more access to free, non-interest checking accounts, says Bankrate Inc.’s annual survey of checking-account fees. Combined surcharges levied by ATM deployers and a consumer’s own bank total $4.57, up 5 cents, or 1.1%, from a year ago, a …

October, 2016

• 31 October

  Forecasters Predict the New 3-D Secure Will Be More Popular Than Its Predecessor

  

  By Jim Daly@DTPaymentNews The new version of the 3-D Secure online-authentication technology is better for merchants and consumers and thus likely to get more adoption than the old version, according to security experts. EMVCo, the chip card standards body owned by the world’s six leading payment card networks, released 3-D …