IN PRAISE OF PCI

| Tiffany Riley

When the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards were introduced four years ago, they were received with about as much enthusiasm as a root canal.

Fear FACTA

| MCM staff

This isn’t a new law. The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, or FACTA, was passed by Congress in 2003 in an effort to combat identity theft. It

A Taxing Treasure

| Bennett Voyles

I WAS IN VENICE RECENTLY, feeling a little glum because I couldn’t think of anything America has produced that could rival such a beautiful, mysterious

paper jam

| Bennett Voyles

By now, we were all supposed to be beaming payments back and forth between our cell phones and smart cards. Purchases would be check-less and cash-less

Moving Target

| Ernie Schell

If you sell online, you are a high-profile target for credit card fraud. Catalogers and retailers have a fraudulent credit card rate of 1% or less, compared