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News MasterCard and RBS jumped on the bandwagon by trialling an RFID-enabled contactless debit card scheme for low value payments at their head office in Edinburgh. Meanwhile customers called out for banks to use stronger authentication methods to allay... [19 Dec 2006]
Visa to launch 'wave and pay' cards in UK
News Visa is planning to introduce contactless 'wave and pay' debit cards to replace low-value cash transactions across the UK by the end of next year. The technology will allow people to pay for low-value transactions such as coffee and newspapers that... [24 Nov 2006]
ID theft 'threatens almost all UK homes'
News Nearly a third (30 per cent) of people had thrown away material with details of a whole credit or debit card number and nearly half (48 per cent) chucked away everything a fraudster needs in order to steal a person's ID, according to the research. [16 Oct 2006]
Data theft scandal - what we can learn from India
Comment I suffered identity theft myself last year when my debit card was cloned and £2,000 cleaned out of my account. Clearly the allegations were not centred on data leaking from the call centres of the various banks mentioned - it was more to do with... [06 Oct 2006]
End-to-End Card Management Suite
White Paper The solution enables credit and debit card issuing, production, and acquiring - with the agility and capability to service the rigorous demands of cardholders and merchants alike. The CardWorld solution from CR2 Limited provides a robust and... [06 Oct 2006]
Plastic for the people - cash ditched for cards
News We're all using debit cards more than credit cards, and cards [in general] are being used more than cash. Over the last six months, £151bn worth of purchases were made using plastic, 70 per cent of which were made using a debit card. [01 Aug 2006]
Leader: Banks may regret Oyster e-money fiasco
Leader Fears over cannibalising their debit card business and interchange fees have doubtless put the banking community off. The banks certainly don't come out of this blameless. And certainly not the banks - processing cash payments is expensive for them. [09 May 2006]
Why Oyster's e-money plans hit the buffers
News The banks could potentially do it but they don't want to affect their debit card business. For example, without financial support from the banks, retailers were unlikely to agree to cover the equipment costs themselves. [09 May 2006]
ANMsoft Technologies Case Study: Leading Bank in Saudi Arabia
White Paper The selection of a new solution and supporting systems for Bank were primarily driven by a need to improve the efficiency of debit card issue, acquiring and related balancing and management processes at the Bank, which were constrained by the... [28 Apr 2006]
Are cash machines heading for extinction?
News Some people argue the days of using cash are numbered; already more shopping is done using debit cards than cash. So what does this inevitable march of the credit and debit card mean for the ATM, the humble 'hole in the wall' where most of us pick... [25 Apr 2006]
Banks set up text, email fraud alerts for customers
News Both banks were among the scores of financial institutions forced to reissue thousands of debit cards in the past two months after hackers broke into the computer systems of a national retailer and made off with customer data - including PINs. [17 Mar 2006]
Paying by iris and fingerprint - the next chip and PIN?
News Existing forms of payment - such as credit and debit cards - are under constant attack from hackers and fraudsters so banks and retailers are on the lookout for more secure technologies. The scanner allows consumers to link their fingerprint to... [14 Mar 2006]
Leader: Shoppers ain't James Bond
Leader It's a novel idea, whereby customers use their fingerprint to verify payment on their debit or credit card; one that brings James Bond technology to the checkout. Banks and credit card companies are being pulled in two directions. [14 Mar 2006]
Debit card fraud spree linked to security breach
News The situation prompted the CAO and the Division of Banks to release a joint statement urging debit card holders statewide to check their accounts for fraudulent activity. A spate of fraudulent debit card charges in Massachusetts, New Mexico and... [08 Mar 2006]
Wal-Mart caught in debit card enquiry?
News This week, two major banks joined a credit union in cancelling a combined 200,000 accounts belonging to debit-card holders. An investigation into thousands of compromised debit cards that was widely reported last week appears to involve two of... [14 Feb 2006]
