Who are the leaders in Mobile Wallet adoption?

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March 7, 2013

Mobile Wallet Adoption

Merchant Warehouse Director of Product Marketing, Matt Cicciari, looks at mobile payment adoption rates and applications available in the market todayVideo Transcript What are your predictions in terms of mobile wallet adoption? Do you foresee a clear-cut leader? Matt Cicciari...

History of Mobile Payments

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August 30, 2012

History of Mobile Payments

Consumers are increasingly demanding new forms of payment that do not rely on the standard magnetic strip credit card. The emergence of such a demand is a direct result of online payment systems, such as PayPal. The next logical step after online payment systems was the...

Google Wallet – A Look Inside

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August 1, 2012

Google Wallet

Google Wallet is an application ‘app’ available from the Android Market. The Google Wallet app was officially released in September of 2011 but adoption has been slow, leading them to recently rethink their original strategy. Anyone that has a mobile phone with the app...

What is EMV?

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July 18, 2012

EMV Technology

EMV is the global card technology of choice and it’s coming to the U.S. There are an estimated 1.5 billion EMV cards worldwide and 21 million EMV terminals. Coupled with card adoption rates averaging 44.7 percent and terminal adoption rates at 76.4 percent, EMV’s global...

An Introduction to PCI Compliance and PCI Security Standards

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May 31, 2012

Credit Card Security

Credit Card Security InformationThe credit card processing industry has been in the news quite a bit over the past several years due to security breaches and data theft. You may have read or seen news reports of some of the larger breaches such as those that recently occurred to...

What you should know about Debit Card Processing

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May 31, 2012

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While most merchants know they should accept debit cards, it is not always easy to understand how to take full advantage of debit card processing. Merchants can do debit card processing in one of the following two ways: Offline Debit Card ProcessingThe most common way to...

Interchange and Assessments - What are they? / What to look out for?

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May 31, 2012

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Have you ever wondered how merchant service providers determine merchant account pricing, or why some credit card transactions cost more than others? To better understand what you’re paying for, you need to know how merchant account pricing is established. Simply put, there...

Visa & MasterCard Rules and Regulations

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May 31, 2012

Credit Card Rules and Regulations

As a merchant accepting MasterCard® and Visa®, there are basic card acceptance rules that you must follow. By adhering to these rules, you can increase customer satisfaction and ensure that you do not run into compliance issues, which may put your continued ability to accept...

Merchant Account Rates - Only Half the Story

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May 31, 2012

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What are your Merchant Account Rates? This is a question our sales team hears throughout the day. So why doesn’t Merchant Warehouse just post our rates for merchant accounts on our website so that customers can compare pricing? The answer is a bit more complex than you may...

A Student's Guide to the Credit Card

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May 31, 2012

Working in merchant services since 1998, Merchant Warehouse has long believed that an informed consumer is an empowered consumer. This expands beyond our own training and education programs for merchants looking to learn more about processing credit cards at their...