Most of you have read that Walmart, Home Depot and Kroger have launched new litigation against Visa for “PIN” and Debit. This issue is so complex it makes my head spin… For those unfamiliar with some of the basics see this article, my prior blog on PIN debit consolidation, AT Kearney, Digital Transactions: PIN Debit Claw Back and Pinless PIN Debit.
I haven’t written much on acceptance over my 9 yr blogging career for one simple reason.. I was never “in” that side of the business. Given how much is going on in here I can’t leave it out any longer. Acceptance at the POS is a big topic, I see the following areas:
10May 2016
Great article in the New York Times this weekend: Jamie Dimon Wants to Protect You From Innovative Start-Ups. Believe it or not I agree with Jamie.. consumers have NO IDEA of what they are giving up. There must be a chain of control on regulated data..
Great article in Digital Transactions that I missed in February
PAR – Consumer Tokens, February 2016
Quote “When a transaction is initiated with an EMV payment token, the functionality of these applications can be impacted since the full PAN may not be available to merchants, acquirers, and payment processors,” a recent EMVCo document says.
Regulated companies like banks and MNOs must not only know who is using their data, but also HOW it is being used.. and when it is transferred, it must be destroyed. We help 1st party data owners create data products within their environment.. your data, your rules, your environment
As always sorry for the typos. This is an 8 page blog… a little long.. and not always linear…. corrections/comments are appreciated…
News today from Jason at Re/Code – ApplePay in Browser this Year
OK.. so I was a year off! (see Blog ApplePay in Browser by Summer 2015).
Not much surprise here.. as I outlined in my January blog on topic ApplePay in browser has been for over a year. I don’t have time for a long blog so will make bullets on what I think are latest “big items”
9 Mar
Never one to shy away from even the MOST ARCANE areas of payments… There is a firestorm in payments encryption right now.. SHA-1 is a hashing function (securing data for a counterparty without the use of public/private keys) that has long since been sunsetted by Microsoft, Google and others as “too weak” and “easily cracked”.