Stories about: Visa International

A panel of financial services and retail executives this month disagreed on which side bears the brunt of the burden to ensure compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.

Large retailers and other key stakeholders in the payment card chain are finally being given a chance to help guide the development and modification of the data security standard imposed on them by the major credit card companies.

Retailers and other major stakeholders in the payment card chain finally have an opportunity to guide enhancements to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard mandated by the five major credit card companies.

The credit card business turned 55 last year, and it might look as though the industry is having a midlife crisis - what with credit purveyors trying to dump the classic mag-stripe-and-plastic cards in favour of cards that use wireless technologies and even mobile phones. But that's no midlife crisis. It's market expansion, and it could change the way most people use their credit cards.

IT innovation may have taken a three-year breather, but CIOs have plenty of unfinished business. They need to go back on the offensive, pursuing more and better ways to drive revenue

Four qualities, when mixed together in proper proportion, produce great leaders.

Will XML be the ultimate platform? Or will it be the next EDI?

When revolutionary procurement theory meets the realities of government-as-usual, something's got to give.

Metadirectories consolidate islands of information for easier updating.

If there's one trait all great Web ventures share, it's this: They make it easy, pleasant, even downright enjoyable for customers to do business with them. Sounds painfully obvious, doesn't it? But, like common sense, it's not all that common. As Patricia Seybold notes in Customers.Com: How to Create a Profitable Business Strategy for the Internet and Beyond (Random House , 1998), too many online businesses still squander too much time and money on everything but providing the ultimate experience for their current and potential customers.

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