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A Market Overview of Payment Terminals in the USA in 2024

Clearly Payments

Payment terminals, often referred to as point-of-sale (POS) terminals or credit card machines, are devices that enable businesses to accept electronic payments from customers. There is a difference between a payment terminal (credit card machine) and a POS. trillion 2015 $2.9 trillion in 2023. trillion 2014 $2.7

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Square Chip Readers Get Speed Boost

PYMNTS

As card swipes turned to chip insertions across the U.S., Recently, to combat long lines and payments fatigue, financial, merchant service and mobile payment company Square rolled out a firmware update to its chip payment terminals. lines got longer and customers got more frustrated.

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Malware Strikes Merchants Behind The EMV Curve

PYMNTS

Cybersecurity firm FireEye warns of the dangers that custom-built malware poses to retailers due to its ability to capture payment card details directly from retail point-of-sale (POS) systems.

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Hacked ATMs Lead to 70% Rise in Debit Card Fraud

FICO

This new data follows a 546 percent increase in compromised ATMs from 2014 to 2015. The rest took place at bank ATMs or point-of-sale (POS) devices, such as card payment machines at retailers. As ATMs aren’t yet required to be chip-card enabled, the EMV adoption that came into force last year isn’t driving fraud down yet.

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Giving Community Banks The Contactless Card Boost

PYMNTS

The contactless card opportunity for community banks stems from the expiration of first-generation EMV chip cards, she told Webster. In fact, in 2015, ICBA Bancard provided more than $800,000 in financial assistance to help its community bank clients prepare for first-gen EMV. million payment cards, Giorgio said.

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Hacker Tracker: Shimmers, Identity Fraud, And Hacked Hotels

PYMNTS

Despite the growing usage of EMV chip card technology to help safeguard payment card data at the point of sale (POS), cybercriminals are turning to devices called “shimmers” to read card numbers and possibly access a card’s chip and obtain the PIN. has fallen significantly behind the curve.

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How Adopting Mobile Payments Can Help Your Business Grow in 2024

Stax

Request Quote Upgrade Your Legacy Equipment for Mobile Payments The world’s foremost mobile phone manufacturers, Apple and Samsung started to foster the use of mobile payments as early as 2014 and 2015, respectively. Google was a little late to the party, but it also followed with its method called Google Pay in 2016.