First Bankcard Introduces New Credit Card Benefits for Small Business and Middle Market

First Bankcard, a division of First National Bank of Omaha and a leading issuer of credit cards, has announced the release of three new credit card benefits designed to support the business needs of today’s small business and middle market business customers. The new benefits, which include Cell Phone Protection, MasterCard, Easy Savings and MasterCard Business Lounge Powered by

Visa and Oracle Introduce New Tools to Help Improve Digital Ad Performance

How it Works: A retailer who wants to promote a seasonal sale selects a target audience based on a mix of demographic and aggregated, past purchase behavior data. In this situation, they choose millennial women as their target audience, and a digital ad is delivered to this group using the Oracle ID graph across multiple

Thames Card Technology Halves Co-Branded Card Production Cost & Time with Retransfer Tech

Thames Card Technology Ltd has expanded its retransfer manufacturing capabilities in response to market demand for the production of co-branded or personalised cards from program managers, issuers and card processors. The new hardware, a combination of XID 8300 and XID 9300 machines, reduces the time to market and cost of producing a range of bespoke

Online Shopping Made Simple, Easy, and More Secure with Visa

Aramex Global Shopper, Discovery, Emirates Airline, TicketPro, WebTickets and YuppieChef. Shoppers can now enjoy this digital checkout service that allows them to pay with their cards online and on any device that’s connected to the Internet, with just a few clicks. [video width="854" height="480" mp4="https://paymentsafrika.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Visa-Script-01_Online.mp4" autoplay="true" preload="auto"][/video] Enrolling in Visa Checkout is a simple, one-time

Mastercard Chip Momentum: Reducing Fraud One Year In

As of July 2016, 88 percent of Mastercard U.S. consumer credit cards have chips, representing a 105 percent increase in chip card adoption since the October 1, 2015 liability shift. The company also sees 2 million chip-active merchant locations on its network, a 468 percent increase in chip terminal adoption since October 1, 2015. Two

Visa and Leading Banks Launch mVisa – Kenya’s First Interoperable Mobile Payments Service

Consumers can pay merchants by scanning a QR code on a smart phone or by entering a merchant number into a feature phone.  The payment goes straight from the consumer’s bank account into the merchant’s account and provides real-time notification to both parties. The QR code, which provides the customers with the merchant’s bank details,