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Photo This is a contactless payment point similar to the ones that have been rolled out across London for use with contactless payment cards from Mastercard and Visa. Fujitsu retail technology serves around 80 retailers and 16,000 stores across Europe... [04 Jun 2008]
Meeting the 12 Rules of the PCI Data Security Standards: Employing CoreGuard to Meet Encryption and Access Control Requirements for Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standards
White Paper PCI, an industry-wide adoption of Visa's CISP (Cardholder Information Security Program), is the credit card industry's standard for securing cardholder data. Visa's CISP and MasterCard's Site Data Protection standards merged into the PCI standard... [13 May 2008]
Ensuring Compliance With PCI Data Security Standards: Employing CoreGuard to Meet Encryption and Access Control Requirements for Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standards
White Paper PCI, an industry-wide adoption of Visa's CISP (Cardholder Information Security Program), is the credit card industry's standard for securing cardholder data. Visa's CISP and MasterCard's Site Data Protection standards merged into the PCI standard... [13 May 2008]
PCI Compliance: The Importance of Securing Payment Information
White Paper In response, a federation of companies led by MasterCard Worldwide and Visa International set out to establish consistent data security measures for merchants, banks, and service providers. The vast majority of these cases stemmed from data... [13 May 2008]
Meeting and Exceeding PCI 1.1 Compliance Today
White Paper Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diner's Club, Discover, and JCB collaborated to create a new set of standards based on CISP (Cardholder Information Security Policy), and known as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI). [13 May 2008]
'Tamper-proof' chip and PIN terminals hacked
News Both devices were Visa-certified to be secure, which requires that defeating the tamper detection would cost more than $25,000 per PIN-entry device; or that inserting a PIN-stealing bug would be detected, or take more than 10 hours. [27 Feb 2008]
Accenture and BAE Systems abandon ID cards
News And also the replacement and upgrading of systems for fingerprint matching and storage in connection with immigration and visa requirements and transition to the replacement service. The system has been criticised this week following revelations in... [25 Jan 2008]
Biometric fingerprint checks for UK visas
News The fingerprint database contains the records of more than one million previous visa applicants.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics The system will cover 133 countries, three-quarters of the world's population, and has already uncovered 10,000 visa... [14 Jan 2008]
Get "More IT for Less" in Retail Banking With Grid Computing
White Paper A rapidly-growing financial services' organization based in the United States had become one of the world's largest providers of Visa and MasterCard-branded credit cards. As part of the consumer-lending products division, the card-issuing... [12 Dec 2007]
Christmas spend online to hit £5bn
News There is also an Apacs website explaining how to sign up to security schemes such as Verified by Visa and Mastercard SecureCode. Online spending on cards is set to rise by more than half (55 per cent) to £5.6bn - meaning more than one billion... [30 Nov 2007]
O2 Tube trial takes mobile payments underground
News A smaller number - 225 - also have access to a Barclaycard Visa application preloaded with £200, which they can use to pay for low-value goods at selected retail outlets. O2's partners for the trial include AEG, Barclaycard, Nokia, Transport for... [28 Nov 2007]
TfL and Nokia to roll out 'Oyster phone' trial
News Visa even has a payWave credit card that features the capability to make small, contactless payments in shops, as well as functioning as an Oyster card. Upcoming trials will see passengers on the London Underground use a mobile handset as a... [26 Nov 2007]
Biometrics wing their way into Gatwick
News UKvisas, a joint Home Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office unit that runs the UK's visa service, is already collecting fingerprints from visa applicants in more than 100 countries around the world. [09 Oct 2007]
Gov trumpets ePassports successes
News The government has pointed to the successes of its ePassports scheme, claiming 4,000 ineligible visa applications have been blocked due to biometric checks. Biometric checking enabled immigration authorities to catch out more than 4,000 visa... [13 Jul 2007]
Stephen Brannan
CIO Profile In that role Brannan was also a member of Visa's European board and chair of the UK cards payment group of Apacs, the UK payments association. Before landing the top IT job at the banking group Brannan was MD of the RBS and NatWest cards division... [06 Jun 2007]
