Chip and PIN june
Online banking fraud rockets as fraudsters get smarter
News The introduction of chip and PIN in UK stores has played an important role in this reduction, with over-the-counter losses down by 26 per cent year-on-year. The group suggests that the... [07 Oct 2009]
Torex tech treats Thorntons to quicker sales
Case Study Chocolate chain Thorntons has speeded up transactions and slashed customer queuing times by rolling out a new chip and PIN-friendly point of sale (POS) system. But the... [06 Apr 2009]
Brits lose £120m to foreign card fraud
News According to payments industry body Apacs, the amount UK retailers lose to card fraud has dropped by around a third since the chip and PIN was adopted in 2005, now standing at £47.4m for... [01 Oct 2008]
White Stuff settles on secure EPOS network
News The network replaces in part the retailer's existing system provided by Prologic, which was originally brought in to handle Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) data, one of the components needed to receive Chip... [02 Apr 2008]
Online banking fraud plummets
News Apacs said the introduction of chip and PIN has made it harder for criminals to commit card fraud in the UK, forcing them to go abroad where the tech is not in place. But Apacs predicts... [04 Oct 2007]
Minority Report: A greener Apple
Comment Find out all about chip and PIN, Itil, wi-fi and more in our Cheat Sheets. From the original script for Jaws by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb In his... [23 Aug 2007]
EC wants TV spectrum for WiMax
News Find out all about Chip and PIN, Itil, wi-fi and more in our Cheat Sheets. UHF spectrum should be allocated to WiMax once Europe's analogue television signals are phased... [14 Jun 2007]
Would you credit it? The debit card turns 20
News Cunnington said the recent introduction of chip and PIN payments was another big change for debit card transactions. With the launch of the Barclays Connect debit card on 3... [01 Jun 2007]
Retailer Clinton's to profit from Epos analysis
News Clinton Cards is about to roll out a chip and PIN electronic point of sale (Epos) system costing just under £3m to its store estate. The rollout, which is expected to be completed across... [20 Apr 2007]
Plastic for the people - cash ditched for cards
News The results come six months after high street retailers implemented chip and PIN technology in their shops with the intention of making card payments a more secure process. Further... [01 Aug 2006]
Chip and PIN shifts fraud to online shops and banks
News This is in contrast to all other forms of card fraud which have declined in the face of fraud-busting chip and PIN technologies. Card not present fraud - made up of internet, phone... [08 Nov 2005]
Chip and PIN heads for cyberspace
News During June 2005 a total of 221 million chip and PIN transactions took place - around 85 PIN-verified transactions per second at tills across the UK.... [27 Sep 2005]
Leader: Watch the ID card retreat
Leader The scheme is supposed to pay for itself but all independent scrutiny shows it won't and if the Treasury plays hardball with the purse strings, that could well leave the current ID card plans dead in the water - to be... [04 Aug 2005]
Many UK retailers won't make smart card deadline
News More than a quarter of UK retailers are wary of moving to the latest Chip & PIN smart card technology for plastic card transactions, according to a survey conducted by Retail Logic, a maker of payment... [18 May 2004]
Intel's Madison chip on parade
News Both of Monday's demonstrations highlight one feature of the Madison chips: They are "pin-compatible" with their Itanium 2 predecessors, meaning that a computer can easily be upgraded with faster chips. [09 Sep 2002]