Date: Mon, 21. September 2009 10:00:00

Heartland Payment Systems CEO Robert Carr told a Senate committee last week that credit card transactions in the U.S. are often not encrypted and that credit card vendors, payment processors and retailers need to embrace an encryption standard to protect credit card numbers.

Date: Wed, 6. January 2010 15:31:47

First American Payment Systems, one of the fastest growing electronic payments processors in the U.S., today announces that it is celebrating its 20th year of business. (PRWeb Jan 5, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/first-american-20th/payment-processing/prweb3406424.htm

Date: Tue, 11. May 2010 21:46:00

Visa has sent out an alert to banks and payment processors warning them to look out for a "large batch settlement fraud scheme" involving a merchant account in East Europe.

Date: Thu, 30. April 2009 04:00:00

The ASC X9 standards body is starting to work on a specification for encrypting payment card data, with breached payment processor Heartland Payment Systems expected to be one of the leading participants.

Date: Thu, 22. January 2009 15:04:54

As data breaches go, a single merchant getting hacked is bad enough. Even worse is an intrusion into the systems of big payment processors, which could potentially put customer credit card data at risk at the hundreds of thousands of merchants whose transactions are crunched there.

Date: Thu, 22. January 2009 00:23:13

AP - As data breaches go, a single merchant getting hacked is bad enough. Even worse is an intrusion into the systems of big payment processors, which could potentially put customer credit card data at risk at the hundreds of thousands of merchants whose transactions are crunched there.

Date: Wed, 10. June 2009 02:43:43

An advocacy group for online poker said Tuesday that the federal government has frozen more than $30 million in the accounts of payment processors that handle the winnings of thousands of online poker players.

Date: Tue, 9. June 2009 21:32:44

AP - An advocacy group for online poker said Tuesday that the federal government has frozen more than $30 million in the accounts of payment processors that handle the winnings of thousands of online poker players.

Date: Tue, 9. June 2009 23:32:38

AP - An advocacy group for online poker said Tuesday that the federal government has frozen more than $30 million in the accounts of payment processors that handle the winnings of thousands of online poker players.

Date: Fri, 9. December 2011 08:12:47

If you carry credit card debt you're obviously aware of the minimum payment, but did you know that if you only make the minimum payment it will likely take over a decade to pay off that debt? On top of that, you'll end up spending almost as much in interest over that time as the original balance itself. Card companies know this, and that's why the minimum payment is so affordable. But just increasing your payment a little bit can make all the difference in the world. Here's how to break the minimum payment habit.Break the Minimum Payment Habit originally appeared on About.com Financial Planning on Sunday, October 16th, 2011 at 19:20:39.Permalink | Comment | Email this