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Value-Added Services

Fraud Prevention, as a service: API Buzz

April 13, 2011

Recently, PYMNTS.com posted an interview with Retail Decisions entitled Fraudsters Take No Prisoners But Retail Decisions Can Strengthen Your Strategy for Prevention. The entirety of the interview is just under 10 minutes, and I would encourage anyone who has interest in this topic to set aside the brief time required to listen.

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More Than Just Payments: Perspectives From The Platform

March 8, 2011

Series Introduction Here at PaymentsAPI, we have been writing Messages From The Edge to communicate the unique perspectives maintained by the single most important constituent in modern payments innovation…the Software Company. As Sr. Vice President, Business Development & Marketing for IP Commerce, Peter Osberg said in his most recent post, An API or a Platform?: [...]

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Enabling Real-Time Collaboration Through Federated Identity: Messages From The Edge

December 16, 2010

It is quite possible that the single most important component to driving commerce innovation is a technology of which you have never heard… Federated Identity Or, if you have heard of it, the likely response is one of confusion and association with a several million-dollar professional services project.  For those in the payments industry, the [...]

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I am not defined by your SIC Code, Segments: Messages From the Edge

September 30, 2010

In the payments industry the practice of identifying merchants by the SIC code (standard industry classification) for the purposes of pricing and underwriting has been hugely valuable. However, it is important to note that Software Companies do not, and will not, classify themselves by an industry code. They, in contrast, are targeting a set of [...]

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The Value of Value-Added Services: Messages from the Edge

September 7, 2010

A recurring theme we see among Software Companies in the market today is that the selection of a payment API is initially driven by the desire to meet immediate business objectives. Furthermore, these objectives often center on the consumption of one core payment service (e.g. credit card processing, ACH, gift card) for one specific industry [...]

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