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Who’s Who: the Players in the Card Payments Industry

Who’s Who: the Players in the Card Payments Industry

An overview of the payments industry participants, their roles, how they interact with each other, and what makes the landscape seem so…
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Rita Cangueiro
Apr 28, 2021
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The Impacts of PSD2, SCA, and 3DS on E-commerce

The Impacts of PSD2, SCA, and 3DS on E-commerce

Interview with Galit Shani-Michel, VP Payments at Forter
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Rita Cangueiro
Mar 17, 2021
Acceptance Rates: How to Recover Lost Revenue

Acceptance Rates: How to Recover Lost Revenue

Learn about what is affecting your acceptance rate and what you can proactively do to increase it.
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Tiago Cabrita
Jan 12, 2021
Holiday Shopping in 2020: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year for Payments

Holiday Shopping in 2020: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year for Payments

This year’s Black Friday and holiday season have been the ultimate test for innovation in the payment industry. What have we learned from…
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Ana Rita Costa
Dec 22, 2020
PCI DSS Compliance: A Guide to Securing Cardholder Data

PCI DSS Compliance: A Guide to Securing Cardholder Data

Data breaches are one of the biggest threats for merchants. PCI DSS requirements were created to prevent such incidents.
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Cristiana Fernandes
Dec 4, 2020
Chargebacks Part II: How to prevent them from killing your business

Chargebacks Part II: How to prevent them from killing your business

Understand the reasons why chargebacks happen and how you can proactively stop them from harming your business.
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Maria João Miranda
Nov 13, 2020
Chargebacks Part I: Understand How They Work

Chargebacks Part I: Understand How They Work

Although sometimes underestimated, disputes are an imminent threat for all types of businesses that accept card payments.
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Maria João Miranda
Oct 30, 2020
Acquiring as a Service: Untangling the Payments Stack

Acquiring as a Service: Untangling the Payments Stack

Tune into the possibilities that a Payment Platform as a Service can offer your business.
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Ana Rita Costa
Oct 22, 2020
Implementing Network Tokenization — Interview with Daniel Pelegero, RPGC

Implementing Network Tokenization — Interview with Daniel Pelegero, RPGC

All about network tokenization. The benefits and how merchants can start the implemention.
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Vasco Vaz Rodrigues
Oct 13, 2020
The Spread of Alternative Payment Methods through Ecommerce

The Spread of Alternative Payment Methods through Ecommerce

Ever since Paypal, hundreds of other payment methods have emerged for a hassle-free checkout experience. What are the alternative out…
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Martim Calmeiro
Oct 7, 2020
The Post-COVID-19 Rejection of Cash and the Rise of Contactless Payments

The Post-COVID-19 Rejection of Cash and the Rise of Contactless Payments

One of the most significant impacts COVID-19 has had on payments is the rejection of cash. Terminals are the in-between, a lesser evil…
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Ana Rita Costa
Sep 22, 2020
Why your business may need a payment orchestration layer

Why your business may need a payment orchestration layer

The payments landscape is getting increasingly complex. In such a fragmented ecosystem, it is still possible to manage the entire payment…
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Acacio Couto
Sep 14, 2020
The New Generation of Authentication Technology — Interview with Alberto Lopéz, Mastercard

The New Generation of Authentication Technology — Interview with Alberto Lopéz, Mastercard

As the deadline for SCA implementation in Europe approaches, we spoke with Alberto Lopéz, Director of Cybersecurity and Digital at…
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Vasco Vaz Rodrigues
Aug 25, 2020
How to optimize payments using Dynamic Routing

How to optimize payments using Dynamic Routing

In the fragmented e-commerce payments industry, there’s a meaningful number of failed transactions, and prices vary significantly. But…
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Rita Cangueiro
Jul 29, 2020
Securing Personal Data via Tokenization

Securing Personal Data via Tokenization

How does tokenization increase conversion? How does the concept work, and how does Switch take it one step further?
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João Norim Bandeira
Jul 14, 2020
The 3DS V2.2.0. Transition and Why You Should Get On It Now

The 3DS V2.2.0. Transition and Why You Should Get On It Now

3D Secure V2.2.0 is set to become the new payment card authentication protocol standard by the end of the year. The transition comes with…
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Ana Rita Costa
Jun 30, 2020
How Payment Schemes are responding to COVID-19 Pandemic: What changed?

How Payment Schemes are responding to COVID-19 Pandemic: What changed?

No matter where you are in the World, the novel Coronavirus pandemic is part of our reality. Everyone is adjusting faster, to a new way of…
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Joana Brandão
May 6, 2020
Interoperability in the Payments Industry

Interoperability in the Payments Industry

I was recently invited to participate in the POSitivity magazine issue of December 2019. Here’s an excerpt…
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Ruca Sousa Marques
Dec 18, 2019
You’re probably overpaying for credit card processing.

You’re probably overpaying for credit card processing.

Learn how you can benefit from the latest interchange caps.
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Ruca Sousa Marques
May 5, 2016
Online Payments > Credit Cards

Online Payments > Credit Cards

There’s way more to payments than cards.
Go to the profile of Ruca Sousa Marques
Ruca Sousa Marques
Jan 11, 2016
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