POS Trends and Insights Articles

Merchants in the United States are working to comply with new rules for accepting credit cards. The rules are intended to increase security and protection of credit card data and to make it harder, much harder, for credit card data to be stolen. We reached out to five...

What is a Smart Card? A smart card resembles a credit card in size and shape, except that the inside of a smart card contains an embedded microprocessor. The microprocessor is under a gold contact pad on one side of the card. This microprocessor replaces the usual...

2015 Visa Payment Technology Provider Forum Takeaways Last week I attended the 2015 Visa Payment Security Symposium held in San Francisco, which is where Visa has its headquarters. The intent of the Symposium was to provide an update on the...

By Kevin Kogler, President of MicroBiz By now, everyone reading this article should know that Amazon has entered the mobile point of sale market with the release of Amazon Local Register. The service is a secure card reader and mobile app that allows local...