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Welcome to the new North.

Welcome to the new North.

North American Bancard is now “North.” A new brand with a shorter, simpler name, yes, but those five letters stand for much more.


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Chargebacks: Facts and Fiction

By now, you’ve heard the term “chargeback,” but just what is a chargeback and what does it mean when it happens to you? A chargeback is defined as …

Chargebacks: Facts and Fiction

How to Keep Millennials at Your Workplace

Do you remember when Baby Boomers (1946-1964) were dubbed the “Me Decade?” Then Generation X (1961-1981) were considered “slackers?” Well, …

How to Keep Millennials at Your Workplace

Getting Smart About Mobile Payments

Any small business owner knows that the key to success is meeting your customer where they are. If you own a shop and you stock merchandise your …

Getting Smart About Mobile Payments

The Importance of Omnicommerce

More likely than not, the words omnicommerce and omnichannel are quite new to you. To break it down, quite literally, the stem “omni-” comes from …

The Importance of Omnicommerce

Reap Big Rewards with These Small Business Tips

If you’re running a small business, you already know that competition can be fierce. There are a lot of other businesses out there, many of them …

Reap Big Rewards with These Small Business Tips

Myths and Truths Regarding EMV

In a recently published article on the American Banker website, Mark Horwedel, chief executive of the Merchant Advisory Group dispelled some …

Myths and Truths Regarding EMV

Cardless ATM’s – The Future of Banking is Here

In recent years, contactless payments like Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay have really taken off, with more retailers being added to the …

Cardless ATM’s – The Future of Banking is Here

Payments and the Smart Home – Shopping for You

The Internet of Things (IoT) has certainly become quite the buzzword as of late. It refers to all of our interconnected devices that can – and do …

Payments and the Smart Home – Shopping for You

Creating Goals for Social Media Campaigns

Creating goals for a social media campaign requires mixing common sense and traditional techniques that have been used for years for other kinds of …

Creating Goals for Social Media Campaigns

Why You Need to Expand Your Payment Processing Options

Many small businesses prefer the simplicity of cash only payments. After all, by maintaining a cash only payment policy, there's no headache …

Why You Need to Expand Your Payment Processing Options

Why You Need to Create a Value for a Lifetime Customer

Calculating the lifetime value of your customers (CLV) gives you an estimated value of your company's greatest asset, one that likely does not …

Why You Need to Create a Value for a Lifetime Customer

How To Make Newsletters That Are Actually Worth Opening

Email marketing is still one of the best ways to promote your business or brand. Most people start their day by checking their emails, and a …

How To Make Newsletters That Are Actually Worth Opening

EMV Tip Adjustment: the Solution to Chargeback

As a small business owner, there is nothing worse than coming down from the high of a stellar sales weekend only to be met with a cold and …

EMV Tip Adjustment: the Solution to Chargeback

5 Tips for Safer Online Banking

Online banking can be a great time saver for people who conduct banking transactions on a regular basis. Unfortunately, it also creates the …

5 Tips for Safer Online Banking

Encryption and Tokenization – What’s the Difference?

Recently, there have been a lot of terms being used when discussing payment cards, EMV, electronic transactions and the incredible amount of data …

Encryption and Tokenization – What’s the Difference?
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