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RSS credit cards visaChip and PIN shifts fraud to online shops and banks
News They should also sign up to the Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode schemes, both of which then make it more difficult for a fraudster to use their card details. Fraudsters snatched £58m using stolen credit cards online in the first half of... [08 Nov 2005]
Visa to spend $200m fighting fraud
News Twenty-two million of those were Visa cards. Credit card giant Visa is to spend $200m on what it calls 'anti-fraud measures', as criminal activity online continues to rise. John Coghlan, Visa CEO, has also called for tougher laws to combat credit... [07 Oct 2005]
Visa and MasterCard to clear up links with data loss firm
News MasterCard and Visa maintain that notification responsibility falls with the banks that issue credit cards because they have direct relationships with the affected customers. CardSystems, MasterCard, Merrick Bank and Visa were sued in June on... [28 Sep 2005]
MasterCard data breach: Lawsuit demands damages
News The suit was originally filed on behalf of Eric Parke, a holder of several MasterCard and Visa credit cards, and Royal Sleep Clearance Center, a business that accepts the cards. The updated complaint also charges that MasterCard, Visa and Merrick... [07 Jul 2005]
MasterCard scandal: More details emerge
News About 22 million of those are Visa cards and 13.9 million are MasterCard, the companies have said. Visa and MasterCard were also contacted, the company said. While millions of accounts were potentially accessed by the attackers, the investigation... [21 Jun 2005]
MasterCard scandal: Worst data theft ever?
News Some 20 million Visa-branded cards may have been affected and the remaining accounts were other brands, including American Express and Discover. MasterCard and Visa both say they have notified their member banks of the specific accounts involved so... [20 Jun 2005]
Bank axes credit card over chip and PIN cost
News Because the offset card used a separate system to the bank's Visa and other cards, she said, the costs of making it chip and PIN compliant are just too high. It just wasn't worth doing it when there weren't that many cards in circulation. [13 Jun 2005]
Credit card signatures: Blink and you'll miss them
News The card will also work with normal Visa and MasterCard payment systems. JP MorganChase, the US's second biggest bank, has done away with signatures for its latest range of credit cards - preferring instead to go for a 'contactless' RFID system. [20 May 2005]
Webphobic UK terrified of online shopping
News Visa, along with Barclaycard, started testing a portable credit card reader that is designed to work with the new chip and PIN credit and debit cards to help prevent fraud and reduce exposure to phishing attacks. [06 Jul 2004]
Streamlining How Merchants Do Business
White Paper It wanted to provide merchants across Canada with a single point of access for electronic payments made with Visa, MasterCard, and debit cards. The first company to offer both Visa and MasterCard processing through a single source in Canada... [21 May 2004]
Deriving Better results by Outsourcing Credit Card Customer Acquisition
White Paper One of the Navastar clients is a Fortune 500 company as well as the world's third-largest issuer of Visa and MasterCard credit cards. The company was challenged by the high cost of telemarketing in the UK and the fact that several of its... [25 Feb 2004]
Viseca Card Services Charges Ahead with CRM from SAS
White Paper Viseca Card Services (Viseca), located near Zürich, is the second-largest company marketing Visa and Master Card credit cards in Switzerland. Viseca sought to aggressively pursue their marketing efforts to increase customer retention and revenue... [25 Feb 2004]
Business-to-Business EIPP: Presentment Models and Payment Options Part Two: Payment Options
White Paper Alternative Electronic Networks - MasterCard RPPS and Visa ePay Credit Cards The intent of this document, Part Two, is to develop a framework for analyzing B2B payment options that both Buyers and Sellers may use as a tool to evaluate the... [25 Feb 2004]
Is There a Future for Electronic Cash in the United States?
White Paper The trial was a substantial one with Citibank, Chase Manhattan Bank, MasterCard and Visa participating. Two headlines on November 4 are "Banks, Credit Card Companies Withdraw Support for Money Cards" and "Firms to End Smart-Card Test As America... [25 Feb 2004]
£1.1bn anti-fraud card scheme still on track
News The UK is the first country in the world to adopt the EuroPay Mastercard Visa (EMV) card standard, and one in five cardholders are expected to have the new cards by Christmas this year. The delivery of new anti-fraud 'Chip and PIN' credit and debit... [26 Jan 2004]
