chip-and-pin payment
Whitbread serves up £1m saving on card payments
News Whitbread information systems project manager, Steven Deakin, said in a statement: "Deployment of the integrated payment solution is a groundbreaking step for the leisure industry and means we have the first large restaurant chain with a... [07 May 2008]
Card fraud up by a quarter to £535m
News Apacs said £535.2m was lost to card fraud overall last year, due mainly to stolen UK card details used in countries yet to upgrade to chip and PIN - a 77 per cent rise on the year before.silicon.com Retail & Leisure [12 Mar 2008]
Locking down financial security
Comment This year, banks including Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland group gave customers their own chip-and-pin card readers to validate internet transactions. While overall card fraud is falling, instances of online fraud are rocketing, according... [24 Dec 2007]
Chip and PIN security warning for retailers
News Other advice includes locating payment terminals where customers can use them without others being able to see their PIN number as they enter it. Retailers are being warned to beef up chip and PIN security to prevent fraudsters stealing card and... [06 Sep 2007]
Co-op Group polls customers at the till
News The system builds on an existing Epos upgrade which was driven by the migration to chip and PIN payment methods in 2006. The customer can then respond using the PIN pad they use to authorise payment. [10 Aug 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Chip and PIN
Cheat Sheet Since Chip and PIN was launched Apacs, the UK payment industry body, says it has had a significant impact in reducing fraud. In 2006 the UK migrated retail and banking transactions to chip and PIN from the standard magnetic strip technology. [13 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. The ability to make a payment accurately without having to send off a cheque has created this online channel for retailers. [01 Jun 2007]
Barclays rings in dot-mobi banking
News Barclays is the first organisation in the UK to roll out chip and PIN devices to more than half a million online banking customers, and it already offers an SMS text-alert payment confirmation system to combat potential fraud. [23 May 2007]
RBS dishes out chip and PIN readers
News The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is dishing out chip and PIN devices to its online banking customers. The chip and PIN card readers will be sent to customers free of charge and people will start receiving the devices this week. [03 May 2007]
Retailers fear contactless payments
News Unlike chip and PIN, there may well be a better business case for these smaller retailers to install the technology because they do not have access to the same cost-effective deals on cash handling that the big retailers enjoy. [24 Apr 2007]
Barclays doles out 500,000 chip and PIN devices
News Barclays is the first organisation in the UK to roll out chip and PIN terminals to its customers and already offers an SMS text-alert payment confirmation system and anti-keystroke logging technology to combat potential fraud. [18 Apr 2007]
Online fraud up but card fraud down
News An Apacs spokeswoman said this fall is mainly due to the introduction of chip and PIN payment tech in the UK. The spokeswoman said: "It's [chip and PIN] having the effect that it was brought in for. The banking industry is working on the next... [15 Mar 2007]
Embedded Chip and PIN Solution Saves OEM One Year's Development Time
White Paper CreditCall, based in the United Kingdom (U.K.planned to develop a Chip and Personal Identification Number (PIN) card payment system for manufacturers of parking, kiosk, and vending machines. The Microsoft solution supported rapid debugging and... [21 Feb 2007]
Chip and PIN on 98 per cent of UK tills
News More than 185 chip and PIN transactions take place every second, compared with 125 per second a year ago, according to payment body Apacs (Association for Payment Clearing Service). Chip and PIN has also been blamed for making ID theft easier by a... [15 Feb 2007]
Chip and PIN takes off with BA
News BA is the first UK airline to achieve 'end to end' chip and PIN accreditation with the banks - which means every part of the payment process from the point at which the card is put into the machine to the point where card details are exported to... [05 Feb 2007]
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