March 24, 2014 | Data Breach, Payments, Security
We might be forgiven for thinking that tokens have been the Rodney Dangerfield of the payments business, but that label is changing fast. Tokens have been used in the payments business for years, mostly in the back room where they have been a preferred tool for securing customer information for merc ....
January 13, 2014 | Payments
One of the great things about the holiday season is the time it provides to read and explore items that might otherwise be passed over and forgotten. This season, payment gurus had lots of eye candy in the form of 187 responses to the Federal Reserve Board’s request for comments on its Payment Sys ....
October 21, 2013 | Payments, Standards
Although it seems as if the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was launched yesterday, the standards organization was in fact created in 2006 to consolidate and better promulgate the major credit card organizations’ then overlapping data security requirements. The PCI Council u ....