EMV Key

A Four Step Guide to EMV for Merchants – Part III

Just joining this series of posts? You can catch up on what you missed: Part I - Hardware and Environmental Considerations Part II - Software Changes and the Impact on Merchants In this third of four posts regarding the implementation of EMV for US based merchants, we will go beyond the hardware and software involved in facilitating the "between the card accepting terminal" and the chip card and specifically discuss Solution Set Certification. Continue reading

Sail

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

EMV in the U.S.

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

EMV Security

A Merchant’s Four Step Guide to Preparing for EMV – Part I

Visa, MasterCard and Discover have all announced plans and programs to bring EMV to the US payments ecosystem.  While these announcements don’t tell us the exact timing of when EMV cards will be issued domestically or when the various industry players will be ready, we do ultimately know that EMV cards will be issued in the US and merchants will need to start preparing for acceptance. Continue reading