Female participation in tech is growing and the fintech industry is becoming more attractive for female talent. More women are joining the industry than ever before and we’re proud that nearly a third of our global workforce are female. As we celebrate International Women's Day, we asked Women at Ingenico about why they love working in technology and payments? Here are their stories:
The PCI SSC has announced a new PCI Security Standard for software-based PIN entry on commercial off-the-shelf devices (COTS), such as smartphones and tablets. The PCI Software-Based PIN Entry (SPoC) Standard provides a software-based approach for protecting PIN entry on the wide variety of COTS devices in the market today. The security requirements are for solution providers to use in developing secure solutions that enable EMV contact and contactless transactions with PIN entry on the merchant’s consumer device using a secure PIN entry application in combination with a Secure Card Reader for PIN (SCRP). Here we talk with PCI SSC Chief Technology Officer Troy Leach about the new standard, what makes it different than other PCI PIN Standards, and how it’s designed to secure payment data.
Data breaches have troubled the U.S. market for a long time, but healthcare providers are the worst affected. According to the HIPAA journal, there were at least 342 healthcare security breaches reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2017.
Cross-border is one of the most exciting and complex ways for eCommerce merchants to grow their business. In fact, almost all online merchants I work with want to grow faster in the right markets. To help them build their strategies, I always recommend taking several trends and key elements into account:
Apple Pay® continues to be on the rise. More merchants than ever are seeing the benefits of including it as a payment option – added convenience, improved customer experience, loyalty program opportunities and more. A recent survey determined that 36 percent of U.S. merchants accept Apple Pay and about 27 percent of eligible U.S. consumers have used it.
