Due to changing conditions in the healthcare environment, many hospitals believe it is time that they move away from independence and toward some form of a transaction. A transaction has the potential ...

Yin and yang, life and death, Clark Kent and Superman. Some concepts are so intertwined that it’s impossible to imagine one without the other. Transaction processing (TP) and relational databases ...

The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come with a ...

Today, government agencies have few options that allow them to seamlessly process payments. One industry leader is hoping to change that — one transaction at a time. Here’s how. In December 2021, the ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Credit card fraud continues to plague consumers around the ...

TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA - 2019/06/22: In this photo illustration there are three Mastercard Credit Cards. The branding and marketing logo of a financial company. Business related conceptual image.

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) today announced the immediate availability of TPCx-AI, the first industry-standard, vendor-neutral benchmark for measuring real-world, end-to-end ...

The process by which a business collects payment from a credit card transaction involves two steps, authorization and settlement, and three key players: customer, issuing bank and merchant. Many, or ...

Differentiation is a key tactic in the payments world, and Aurora Payments and Clara Capital are the latest in merchant processing to stand out with new services. First, Tempe, Ariz.-based Aurora ...