EMV’s Impact in the U.S.

| Nish Modi

A nationwide mandate to shift toward EMV begins in October 2015, and recent research from the National Retail Federation found that most retailers are unprepared.

Mobile Will Represent More Than Half of Transactions in 2015

| Tim Parry

Additionally, as retailers make the looming switch to EMV payments systems, those systems also accept mobile capabilities such as Apple Pay, which will also contribute to increased mobile payments. Click for more 2015 cybercrime predictions from ThreatMetrix.

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Alibaba Says It Has Addressed Online Security Vulnerability

| Mike O'Brien

Alibaba says it is doing all it can to keep on top of security issues that affect its ecommerce merchants, after a published report noted that an Israeli firm in late October found a security flaw in AliExpress, the company’s English language ecommerce site.