NMI, which specializes in card-not-present (CNP) payments, will acquire NMI, adding EMV and card-present expertise to the combined companies’ portfolio. NMI provides payment enablement technology to Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs), ISVs, VARs and payment facilitators. The acquisition brings together NMI’s nearly two decades of e-Commerce and m-Commerce experience with Creditcall’s support for EMV chip card, swipe and contactless enabled payment devices. The combined company accounts for more than $45 billion in annual payment volume, more than 165 processor integrations and 100+ device certifications worldwide.

By necessity, all e-Commerce companies are constantly on guard against card not present (CNP) fraud. Aside from the financial losses incurred from the refunded amounts, chargeback fees, and merchandise replacement costs, there is also the looming threat of losing the ability to do business — payment processors will stop working with a merchant if the chargeback rate exceeds a certain threshold.  Those on the front lines of this ongoing war against fraudsters are the analysts tasked with screening out the fraudulent transactions. They have to satisfy conflicting requirements: brief turnaround time for order accept/decline decisions, minimizing chargeback losses, and keeping the total cost of fraud prevention low. These fraud management teams are the Rodney Dangerfields of e-Commerce, since they usually don't get much respect from senior management, who often view their department as a cost center rather than a revenue protector.  It's no surprise that merchants are quick to adopt and hesitant to abandon tools that are simple, quick, cheap, and seem to do a good job of rejecting fraudulent orders while accepting the legitimate ones. This is how we ended up with e-Commerce fraud prevention tools like blacklists.  Blacklist Basics Here's how blacklists work: When merchants approve an order…

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Payment security provider Bluefin Payment Systems has partnered with payment platforms Datacap Systems and Monetary LLC to offer a PCI-validated Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) solution to merchants. Benefits of a PCI-validated P2PE solution include reduced PCI compliance and scope; time and money savings on annual audits; and assurance that the technology…