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"Over the last several years, I have consistently used the educational content at the DRF to help keep me informed about what is new and evolving in the payments industry, which has proved to be an important resource in planning the evolution of our global fraud prevention and payment processing products and services. The DRF is the only place where this level of advanced content is available year after year.”

Christopher Uriarte
Chief Technology Officer
Retail Decision

CNP Industry Headlines

08-17-10

More Identity Theives Use Card Skimmers
San Francisco Chronicle
Armenian gang caught putting card skimmers in gas pumps at Arco and 7-Eleven stores. The skimmers use tiny pin hole cameras to collect pin numbers. More sophisticated versions use a fake keypad that collects the PIN and then sends it on to the bank. While skimming still only accounts for an estimated 1% of data theft, that represents $1.2 billion in losses every year.

08-13-10
Paypal Talking With Google About Handling Android Payments
Bloomberg
PayPal business is in talks to add its payment service to Google Inc.’s Android smartphone software, making it easier for users to pay for applications.By adopting PayPal, which has 87 million active accounts, Google may attract more paying customers.Recent CNP News 08-21-10 $9 Here, 20 Cents There and a Credit-Card Lawsuit New York Times

07-14-10

Visa Releases Global Best Practices for Card Data Tokenization

Wall Street Journal

Visa announced global industry best practices for tokenization to provide guidance to merchants, vendors, service providers and acquirers and promote safer merchant payment environments. This is part of Visa's ongoing effort to share best practices with merchants.

Click here for the best practices report

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6-22-10 Voice The Killer App by the Yankee Group

6-01-10 Question Everything

05-30-10 Finding Gold With Datamining - San Diego Tribune

5-26-10 PCI Tokenization Guidance Could Benefit Payment Processors

5-26-10 Paypal Goes On The Defensive As Mastercard Opens Platform For Developers

5-19-10 Senate Rejects States' Right To Limit Credit Card Rates

5-19-10 Blacklist For Disputing Credit Card Charges Concerns Watchdog Groups

04-21-10 Visa Inc. To Acquire CyberSource To Accelerate eCommerce Growth

04-12-10 New Pay Pal App Reaches Over 1 Million Downloads

04-12-10 Does New Breach Law Have Teeth?