Among the four major U.S. payment brands, American Express charges the highest credit card acceptance fees, by far. Here is a complete list of AmEx's charges....
Payment fraud in the U.S. has declined, but the leading cause for the improvement is not some enhancement of our defenses, but the ongoing shift away from paper checks and toward electronic payments....
Card security codes are 3- and 4-digit numbers used by the card brands to verify that a customer is in possession of her card during an e-commerce transaction....
Black Friday marks the traditional beginning of the holiday shopping season, but it is now being overtaken by a much more recent phenomenon -- Cyber Monday....
Google Trend is the best source of data about shifts in consumer attitudes toward businesses, products and services. Here is what it tells us about m-payments....