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Travel Credit Cards
Memorial Day beckons as the official kick-off to the summer travel season, but your AVPS blog correspondents already have one
Consumer Credit Trends
It’s that time of year where we start to monitor the trends over consumer card use — particularly with summer
Leaking Data in Smartphone Era
By way of a heads-up comes this news from Canada, and reported in the northerly edition of Huffington Post (and
Online Sales Tax
Part of reporting financial, economic and practical news that helps your business, and illuminates the climate your business operates in,
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The news in credit cards this week is kind of yin/yang, straddling both sides of the security fence. On the
gift card fraud
While credit card fraud thankfully remains the rule, rather than the exception, we like to post occasional news items here
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The headline is a direct follow up to last week’s blog post, which concerned one merchant’s unfortunate overreaction to “showrooming,”
Dealing with Showrooming
Sometimes this happens with the newfangled habit of “showrooming.” We’ve written about it here before, and as a merchant with
Young Adults Credit
A few weeks back, we mentioned some conflicting reports on young adults and their use of credit.  On the one