Acquiring Card Payments

This book is a comprehensive guide to acquiring card payments, covering payment cards, EMV contact chip and contactless transactions, disputes, arbitration, and compliance, data security standards, validation algorithms, code tables, and basic cryptography. It provides practical knowledge and insight for engineers to navigate systems and understand the latest developments in card payment technology.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 262 pages
Publication date: 21 January 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book delves into the essential concepts and technologies of acquiring systems, offering a valuable resource for engineers seeking practical knowledge and insight into this field. Filling the gap left by manuals and standards, it provides a wealth of practical knowledge and guidance that enables engineers to navigate complex systems and comprehend the vast tomes of standards and manuals.

Dedicated exclusively to card acquiring, the book covers a wide range of topics, including payment cards and protocols, EMV contact chip and contactless transactions, disputes, arbitration, and compliance, data security standards in the payment card industry, validation algorithms, code tables, basic cryptography, pin block formats, and algorithms. Where necessary, it discusses issuer-side features or standards to ensure completeness, providing an overview, justification, and logic behind each message of the protocol while deferring the detailed listing of fields and their formats to the standard document itself.

The chapter on EMV contact transactions is particularly comprehensive, offering a thorough explanation of this complex topic to provide a solid foundation for understanding EMV contactless transactions. This book serves as a valuable guide for professionals seeking to master the standards and latest developments in card payment systems and technology.

Weight: 400g
Dimension: 153 x 234 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032475332