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Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?
Comment Because most internet crime cases involve misuse of bank accounts and bank or credit cards, how banks treat losses to the customer's accounts is paramount to maintaining consumer confidence in online trading. [15 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... cashless concerns, battle of the OSes, iPhone fans...
Comment Also have people not noticed some smaller business who have minimum spends for using credit and debit cards as well as cheques because of the charges that are made? ID cards rocketing costs ID cards to cost more than £5.6bn [15 Nov 2007]
Full Disclosure - silicon.com launches data breaches campaign
Comment Last year silicon.com chronicled the case of a still-to-be-named UK retailer which suffered a security breach that led to thousands of customers having their credit cards reissued. While the customers had to go through the trouble of getting new... [16 Jul 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Computer says 'no'
Comment My other half, ahead of a recent trip to Mexico, phoned HSBC to tell them we were off to Central America and to ask them not to put a block on any credit or debit cards they saw being used there during the coming fortnight. [10 May 2007]
Editor's Blog: Banking on a human or computer?
Comment But almost an hour later, I emerged feeling lucky there is now the internet, or on the odd occasion the phone, for dealing with everything from credit cards and loans to mortgages and pensions. The other day I went to the high street for the first... [21 Mar 2007]
Leader: Why cash will be weighing us down for years
Leader And sure, in the last decade alternatives to cash have made big leaps forward - with the broad adoption of credit and debit cards and other payment methods such as PayPal coming along too. The cashless society is a bit like the paperless office. [12 Mar 2007]
Leader: A £1m message that goes out nationwide
Leader Last year this publication fought long and hard to name the e-tailer that had divulged credit card details of shoppers, meaning credit card companies had to reissue thousands of cards. When it comes to regulatory fines, especially those issued to... [14 Feb 2007]
Dan's China diary - day 21
Comment This is still a society largely based around cash - only 10 per cent of people have credit cards. And there is still some debate as to how developed credit checking agencies are. For in-depth coverage of this fact-finding trip inside China... [30 Jun 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 19
Comment In financial services - to be a bit more precise - when you consider that most people in mainland China still use cash, only 10 per cent of people have credit cards and the credit checking agencies don't really work that well, Hong Kong is quite a... [28 Jun 2006]
Best practice: Making life easier for business travellers
Comment Billing is then consolidated and sent to the enterprise, rather than using credit cards or scratch vouchers. These days almost every organisation includes some mobile workers. Stewart Baines offers advice on what the IT department can do to make... [14 Jun 2006]
Analysis: E-tailer credit card cover-up - California dreamin'?
Comment On Wednesday 26 April, this publication broke the news that 2,000 credit card holders, including some customers of the Clydesdale Bank, had been informed that their MasterCard credit cards were being replaced because of a security breach. [10 May 2006]
Leader: Should we now doubt chip and PIN?
Leader Forged cards do still work in UK cash points, to cater for our US cousins and others who refuse to abandon the magnetic strip. And with credit card companies and banks being more thorough in vetting overseas payments - which anybody who has had to... [09 May 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Travel pains
Comment Whilst I could check in using my credit card, my children could not be identified, as they don't have credit cards! In the meantime get all family members airline cards - as I suggested above - and book your seats online and print tickets before... [24 Apr 2006]
Leader: ID card dreams and nightmares
Leader This too might be wishful thinking, considering the numbers of refuseniks there could be by the time the cards are finally ready. But no mention of any problems such as false negatives, where the system can't recognise you, or risks such as forgery... [21 Apr 2006]
Leader: Web brands take the battle to the high street
Leader It's already looking at credit cards, and other payment methods are likely to follow - the banks had better watch out. PayPal is one of a number of companies that is looking to extend its reach from the internet into bricks and mortar. [21 Mar 2006]
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