Conexxus In the News

EMVCo Press Release: Payment Industry Collaborates with EMVCo to Address the Complexities of Remote Payments

Thursday December 21, 2017

Conexxus has joined ENVCo's Associates Program as a new Business Associate. Participation at this level is available to organizations with direct responsibility for an EMV transaction at any point in the transaction lifecycle. These companies can provide input on strategic and business topics related to the use of the EMV Specifications.....

NACS Daily: EMV: A Common-Sense Mandate

Friday October 27, 2017

Last week during the NACS Show, TechEdge speakers and payment experts Linda Toth, director of standards at Conexxus; Kara Gunderson, POS manager at CITGO Petroleum; and Mike Lindberg, payment solutions director at CHS/Cenex; presented an education session on EMV, payments and data security. During the “Leveraging Data Security Technology” session, Toth kicked off the EMV discussion by explaining .....

Friday October 20, 2017

Representatives from technology standards group Conexxus gave Chicago’s NACS Show 2017 attendees a sobering but informative picture of the state of cybersecurity and payments in retail. “There is no silver bullet. It’s an effort that’s going to ....

Wednesday October 18, 2017

In a session entitled “Tech Edge: Protect Yourself from Data Breaches,” and moderated by Gray Taylor, executive director of tech think group Conexxus, two industry experts provided a glimpse of how cyberattacks are quickly changing the shape of data security and some straightforward tips on how retailers can better protect themselves. Even though data breach cases are generating bigger headlines, common sense solutions still can be employed to help retailers safeguard their data, and the data of their customers.....

Wednesday October 11, 2017

Although the EMV liability shift deadline at the forecourt has been deferred until 2020, there are a number of incentives for retailers to upgrade ahead of time.

That was one of the key messages relayed during a recent webinar hosted by the U.S. Payments Forum and Conexxus. The webinar....

Friday September 15, 2017

Despite what you may have heard, millennials—my generation—are not to blame for the failure of once well-established industries. Consider this recent story in The Washington Post titled, “The baffling reason many millennials don’t eat cereal.” It asserted that millennials are too lazy to eat cereal because “it’s inconvenient,” and cited research from Mintel that 40% of millennials said cereal was problematic because they don’t want to clean it up. This is an undeniably startling statistic, but there’s much more behind the topic than this single data point.....

Monday September 11, 2017

Returning to the Windy City this fall, the annual NACS Show will once again connect thousands of professionals in the convenience and fuel retailing industry.

TECH EDGE: Technology constantly evolves and reshapes how retailers in the c-store and fuel retail industry do business. The NACS Show’s Tech Edge program is designed to help industry professionals solve for the tech challenges ahead. Tech Edge, now in its fourth year, will partner with Conexxus for a two-and-a-half day program.....

Wednesday August 30, 2017

Many small petroleum and convenience store merchants in the U.S. are working to implement EMV chip technology at their automated fuel dispensers (AFDs) to reduce counterfeit card fraud. Petroleum merchants looking to understand the complexities of the migration to chip technology at the pump in advance of the payment networks’ October 2020 fraud liability shifts can get answers to their questions at a U. S. Payments Forum webinar being held in partnership with Conexxus this September.....

Wednesday August 9, 2017

“The Conexxus Annual Strategy Conference sets the achievement goals and technology benchmarks for the coming year, addressing the most critical and emerging needs of the convenience store industry,” said Melissa Fox Hadley. “The Membership and Marketing Committee looks to increase Conexxus enrollment, drive engagement and demonstrate how invaluable this organization is to every retailer in our market.....

Tuesday June 13, 2017

Innovation facilitates the adoption of mobile commerce standards. Stuzo, a digital product innovation firm, has released two key technology assets for the fuel retail industry, including a testing simulator for developing Conexxus compliant mobile commerce solutions. The first asset is Open Commerce Reference Architecture: An open plug in based reference architecture for the rapid development of mobile commerce solutions for fuel retailers and convenience stores, empowering a mobile transaction at the pump and in store.....