by Credit Card Processing | Nov 2, 2017 | AVP Solutions News and Events, card processing, holidays
Last year, as we turned the corner on Halloween, we noted the growing popularity of “Singles Day,” that online shopping extravaganza that has become a bellwether for economic trends heading into end-of-year holidays. By way of background, CNBC recounts that... 
by Credit Card Processing | Oct 12, 2017 | AVP merchant solutions info, AVP Solutions Merchant Info, AVP Solutions News and Events, holidays
“It’s going to get worse before it gets better,” we wrote as 2016 became 2017, citing a Guardian article that had proclaimed our previous year as “The Year of the Hack,” and what it meant for the year ahead, and the years after that — like, for instance, that... 
by Credit Card Processing | Sep 21, 2017 | AVP merchant solutions info, AVP Solutions News and Events, credit card security, EMV Chip, secure payment processing
When this post first appeared last summer, we called it “The Breach Days of August,” sounding various alarums from what had been the just concluded Black Hat conference in Las Vegas (a gathering of mostly “white hat” hackers). In what surely... 
by Credit Card Processing | Sep 1, 2017 | AVP Solutions News and Events, credit card security, EMV Chip, holidays
In last fall’s Labor Day survey, we wrote that the unspoken rule was to put white clothing away until Memorial Day rolled around again, but that would seem to apply mostly to cool-weather climates, of which there are fewer and fewer, at least in the American... by Credit Card Processing | Jul 14, 2017 | AVP Solutions Merchant Info, AVP Solutions News and Events, holidays
Summer travel always brings with it a shifting list of do’s and don’ts, in terms of what to pack, where to go, what to expect if you’re queueing up for a TSA line, etc. It’s also been a good way to mark how people are feeling about the economy around them: Do they see...