All Mobile Wallets Converge at the POS

Have you heard of the latest wallet? Which one? The NFC one? Or the cloud based? The one from the web giant, the mobile operator joint venture or the alternative payments giant? Or was it the one from the merchant coalition? It seems a day doesn’t go by without the announcement of a new mobile wallet scheme that will revolutionize payments and obsolete the leather wallet in the process. Continue reading

With the Wind at Our Backs

You may have already heard about SAIL by VeriFone, our new cost effective payment-as-a-service platform that provides business owners and merchants an easy and secure way to accept payments wherever business takes them. Continue reading

Thinking Big (Data)

This week we’re excited to host an original blog post by Rob Sadowski. Rob is the Director of Solutions Marketing for RSA, The Security Division of EMC. A colleague of mine is fond of saying that for him, the year in information security begins at the RSA Conference . Continue reading

My EMV Education

A little more than a year ago, I attended my first Smart Card Alliance event in Chicago. Having a background steeped more in network security than in payments security, I'll admit now that much of what I saw and heard at the show might as well have been written in Sanskrit for all the good it did me. Continue reading