Latest Payment card industry Stories
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) today announced that U.S. financial institutions have reported issuing an estimated one million Visa-branded, EMV chip-enabled cards as of December 31, 2011, demonstrating the significant progress the industry is making toward implementing Visa's U.S. chip roadmap.(1),(2) In August 2011, Visa announced plans to accelerate mobile innovation and the adoption of EMV contact and contactless chip technology in the U.S....
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, January 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the certification of its call centre and international acquiring platform, Monext's Payline and Pavavenue services, which are targeted to merchants, have renewed their PCI DSS certification. Monext's tokenisation service (card identification encryption) has also been certified for the first time. This certification guarantees Monext's clients that their data will be processed in a highly secure manner during...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. and ATHENS, Greece, Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CHARGE Anywhere® LLC, a leading provider of award-winning, secure mobile payment and payment gateway solutions, along with Innovative Solutions & Services LTD of Athens, Greece, announced today a Strategic Agreement. INSS will deploy the ComsGate® Payment Gateway, CHARGE Anywhere Retail POS and Mobile POS Payment Application Software and ComsGate Card Issuing Services that will enable consumer mobile...
PARIS, Jan. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- French online retailer Cdiscount, a subsidiary of the Casino Group, has selected Verizon to help ensure that the company's electronic payment-processing platform complies with international payment card industry data-security standards. Cdiscount has more than 10 million registered users in France, with the company's online retail site, cdiscount.com, attracting 800,000 visitors and handling 30,000 orders each day, on average. Cdiscount...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Dec. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today in a communication to their merchant partners, global sales force and technology providers 5th Dimension Logistics, LLC. (5thDL.com) announced that it has attained level one Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) 2.0 certification, making it possibly the first payment gateway in the world to accomplish such notable status and rigorous security protocols. The PCI Standard is the result of a collaborative...
ALLENTOWN, Pa., Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading managed hosting provider INetU, Inc (www.inetu.net) has announced that its exclusive "Gated Community Cloud" global business service has been certified PCI DSS compliant at its US and EU nodes. Payment Card Industry - Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) 2.0 Level 1 compliance assures INetU clients that they are invested in a verified production-ready e-commerce cloud environment. PCI compliant managed services are available...
PA DSS Certification is a strict requirement for software applications that are responsible for conducting authorization and settlement functions related to credit card data. Known technically as the Payment Application Data Security Standards, PA DSS certification is quickly becoming a household name for many industries and business sectors, ultimately requiring tremendous time commitments and financial costs for achieving initial certification. You'll want to distill fact from...
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A study published today by merchant data security leader SecurityMetrics shows 71 percent of merchants who entered the study were found to store unencrypted payment card data in 2011, which is an increase of 8 percent since 2010. Merchants who store unencrypted payment card data directly violate Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requirements and may be subject to fines and other penalties after a compromise. The...
PLAYA DEL REY, Calif., Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Smart Action Company announced the completion of its independently-evaluated PCI DSS certification. A Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) has verified that the company meets all Payment Card Industry security requirements (PCI DSS 2.0) as a service provider. The company's flagship products, Smart Call Agents, have revolutionized the self-serve interactive voice response (IVR) industry, and usage has more than doubled in the past year. The...
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, November 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the certification of its call centre and its Payline and Pavavenue payment solutions, Monext has received yet another quality guarantee. Its international acquiring platform, which enables merchants based in Europe to manage VISA and MasterCard payments, has just been PCI DSS certified (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). The audit was carried out by XMCO, a consulting firm for information system...
