January 23, 2018
As a merchant you probably don’t have a huge IT staff much less millions of dollars worth of high powered servers giving you enough computing power to run a small army. You might even be the IT department, with a […]
January 16, 2018
There was a time when cash was the only accepted form of payment. Then the credit card emerged. In more recent years other forms like PayPal have been introduced. One of the more recent is Apple Pay and many businesses […]
January 9, 2018
What came first the chicken or the egg? Vigorous debate can ensue and we will probably never know the answer to that question. It’s fun to think about so we’ll pose another question to you: What came first, the credit […]
January 2, 2018
As a merchant you probably have never seen an Europay card very often, if at all. That should come as no surprise as the card is almost exclusively found in Europe. Today we will take a brief look at the […]
December 29, 2017
With the holidays here it is time to be a little more light hearted. Here is some fun ATM trivia! There is approximately 1 ATM for every 3,000 people in the world. ATMs are found most commonly in the United […]
December 19, 2017
We’ve all heard MasterCard’s slogan that there are some things money can’t buy and for everything else there’s MasterCard. That’s not quite true. There are a handful of things that a person cannot use a credit card to buy, though […]
December 12, 2017
Retro is in style, what is old is new and is cool again. Just like with fashion and cars the retro fad is coming back with credit card thieves as well. One of the most dangerous ways to steal a […]
December 5, 2017
Today we take ATM’s for granted. Fifty years ago that was not quite so. Today there are around three and a half million ATMs worldwide and they are found in nearly every nation in the world. In many cases for […]
November 28, 2017
Compared to the other major credit card companies Discover is a youngster. In many ways it is the credit card that is always forgotten as it is not accepted everywhere and is not available to the average person. In the […]
November 21, 2017
Skimming in the United States has taken another leap forward as the criminals attempt to stay one step ahead of law enforcement and vigilant merchants. Skimming is a lucrative enterprise for many thieves who take the stolen information and sell […]
November 14, 2017
ATM skimmers continue to get more sophisticated. This past summer a rash of skimmers were found in Oklahoma that incorporated the usual skimming technology with another link in the chain. These new skimmers had an antenna attached and would transmit […]
November 7, 2017
Commerce exists through the exchange of good and services for other goods and services. There was a time when merchants would exchange animals for flour, such was a lack of any form of currency. That changed in the Iron Age […]