by Credit Card Processing | May 30, 2013 | AVP Solutions News and Events
We watch the credit card news so you don’t have to. Well, you still can, but consider us your handy synopsis of “All the News that Fits.” What’s fitting this week are two items that may initially unrelated — one about credit card fraud at a travel destination,... by Credit Card Processing | May 23, 2013 | AVP Solutions Merchant Info, AVP Solutions News and Events
Once again, this week’s news cycle in the world of credit and finance gives us a fascinating glimpse into how varied the metrics are of credit card reporting, to the degree that two different studies can came out at the same time, each claiming different conclusions... by Credit Card Processing | May 16, 2013 | AVP Solutions Merchant Info, AVP Solutions News and Events, card processing, merchant solutions
Memorial Day beckons as the official kick-off to the summer travel season, but your AVPS blog correspondents already have one child flying back from college for the break, and we’ve booked an interestingly complicated itinerary for a summer flight of our own. So... by Credit Card Processing | May 9, 2013 | AVP Solutions Merchant Info, AVP Solutions News and Events, merchant services
It’s that time of year where we start to monitor the trends over consumer card use — particularly with summer travel season looming. But two other initial trends this spring caught our eye first, and may shed some light on where your customers are at. The first... 
by Credit Card Processing | May 2, 2013 | AVP Solutions Merchant Info, AVP Solutions News and Events, card processing
By way of a heads-up comes this news from Canada, and reported in the northerly edition of Huffington Post (and later picked up in Forbes’ credit card “round up” column). We’ve mentioned those embedded chips that are due to replace magnetic...