Did you know that the Christmas season is the busiest one not only for online retailers, but also for fraudsters? It is no surprise, considering the number of Source: cosug.net

Just about a year from now, retail merchants who currently accept only magnetic stripe payment cards will have to start accepting chip-based smart cards as well. Source: http://www.csoonline.com

In an effort to nurture the budding online commerce community of South Korea, PayPal announced that on Feb. 12, it will have a website and call center in the Korean language, according to Korea Joongang Daily. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

MasterCard has teamed up with Zwipe to integrate fingerprint sensors into contactless cards While MasterCard may not actually make or issue cards, they’ve teamed up with Zwipe to help launch the world’s first fingerprint authenticated…… Source: http://www.totalpayments.org

Given how e-commerce is largely seen as the future for economic potential and merchant innovation, it seems counterintuitive to think that it’s also helping out something as stereotypically outdated as the Post Office. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

In an effort to nurture the budding online commerce community of South Korea, PayPal announced that on Feb. 12, it will have a website and call center in the Korean language, according to Korea Joongang Daily. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

German startup investment company Rocket Internet has added to its galaxy of food delivery partners by investing a 30-percent stake in take-out aggregator HeroFood, worth 496 million euros, Bloomberg reports. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

SimplyTapp, a leading provider of HCE services for merchants, announced late last week (Feb. 6) that it received an additional $2.5 million fundraising round as part of its Series B fundraising plan from mobile payments platform Mozido. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Kerfuffle is one of my all-time favorite words. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Richard Parratt started his career at Imperial Tobacco in 1995 as a sales representative. In July 2013 he became General Manager for Central Asia, where he i… Source: http://www.thebusinessyear.com