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Cheques go up in smoke but plastic is fantastic

News Credit cards have remained static, as has the amount of money paid in cash. It found plastic cards accounted for 65 per cent of all UK spending last year, rising by 11 per cent in value in 2007. The biggest growth is in debit cards, which have...

Tags: debit cards, cheques, apacs

[12 May 2008]

Citrix Solutions for Complying With PCI-DSS: Ensuring Protection of Web Applications and Privacy of Cardholder Information

whitepaper The standard comprises a set of directives for entities that handle credit cards, with the goal of reducing fraud. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a global standard governed by the major credit card companies.

Tags: security standards

[10 May 2008]

PCI Compliance: The Importance of Securing Payment Information

whitepaper The vast majority of these cases stemmed from data breaches associated with credit cards. Fraud and identity theft are on the rise. The Federal Trade Commission received more than 685,000 complaints of fraud and identity theft in 2005, totaling...

Tags: security standards

[10 May 2008]

Ensuring Compliance With PCI Data Security Standards: Employing CoreGuard to Meet Encryption and Access Control Requirements for Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standards

whitepaper Compliance with PCI (Payment Card Industry) data security requirements is a key initiative for any company that processes credit cards. PCI, an industry-wide adoption of Visa's CISP (Cardholder Information Security Program), is the credit card...

Tags: security standards

[08 May 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

whitepaper Compliance with PCI (Payment Card Industry) data security requirements is a key initiative for any company that processes credit cards. PCI, an industry-wide adoption of Visa's CISP (Cardholder Information Security Program), is the credit card...

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS)

whitepaper Accepting credit and debit cards is a fact of life at campuses nationwide. Hand-in-hand with card acceptance comes the responsibility to safeguard and protect all transaction and consumer data. Unfortunately, education institutions because of their...

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Meeting and Exceeding PCI 1.1 Compliance Today

whitepaper All merchants and service providers that handle, transmit, store or process information concerning any of these cards, or related card data, are required to be compliant with PCI or face contract penalties or even termination by the credit card...

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Oracle Applications 11i: Credit Cards and PCI Compliance Issues

whitepaper This paper will review the credit card processing features of Oracle Applications and will provide general guidance for Oracle Applications implementations on complying with relevant PCI DSS requirements.

Tags: security standards

[06 May 2008]

UK online spend up 50 per cent this year

News The results conflict slightly with other data out recently from the British Retail Consortium, which found shoppers were less inclined to use credit and debit cards, preferring to spend only the money they knew they had.

Tags: consumer electronics, alcohol, online retail

[22 Apr 2008]

Credit crunch prompts the great cash comeback

News The economic downturn is prompting a comeback for cash, as shoppers avoid the temptation of spending money they haven't actually got by paying by credit or debit cards. While total retail spending continues to grow, there is a widening gap between...

Tags: cash, brc, credit card, leisure

[21 Apr 2008]

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.

Tags: online banking, fraud, e-crime

[15 Apr 2008]

Photos: £1,000 reward for PM's fingerprints

Photo The elaborate stunt has been dreamt up by anti-ID cards campaigners No2ID and Privacy International, who will put up posters in tube stations and pub toilets. The campaign is an attack on government plans to take the biometric details of UK...

Tags: national identity register, biometrics, id cards

[07 Apr 2008]

Police chief: Cyber crime is everywhere

News The US and the UK data is more valuable than other data because we have very high credit card limits and the cards can be used everywhere in the world. Lemon warned that the internet was fuelling a rise in global credit card fraud and that the UK...

Tags: soca, cyber crime, e-crime, campaign

[19 Mar 2008]

Photos: The high-tech future of retail

Photo The kiosk in itself isn't a new innovation, but it does feature a Wave & Pay point for near field communication payment cards. Photo credit: Julian Goldsmith Photo credit: Julian Goldsmith Photo credit: Julian Goldsmith

Tags: retail, contactless payments, tablet, payment

[15 Feb 2008]

Photos: Accenture gets touchy feely with its interactive wall

Photo The displays are driven by multiple Microsoft XP-based workstations equipped with high-end graphics cards. Photo credit: Nick Heath Photo credit: Accenture Photo credit: Accenture Photo credit: Nick Heath

Tags: future, touch, accenture, interactive

[01 Feb 2008]

Photos: Accenture waves goodbye to the wallet

Photo The technology works by putting an NFC reader and transmitter into a phone that can be linked to a bank, loyalty card system or travel account such as Oyster cards. Photo credit: Nick Heath The phone can then be swiped in front of an NFC reader or...

Tags: nfc, mobile phone, rfid, bank

[31 Jan 2008]

Comparison site gets smart to beat that competition

Case Study It supports thousands of financial services suppliers, delivering products from credit cards to insurance, mortgages to loans and banking. beatthatQuote.com is one of the increasing numbers of financial services comparison sites that have blossomed...

Tags: financial services, experian, comparison sites, banking

[29 Jan 2008]

Top 10 financial services stories of the year

News Gartner's forebodings for cash were made real with a number of commitments from credit card companies to introduce small-payments contactless chip cards. This is after a major regulatory reform has been accomplished and plastic cards make more in...

Tags: mifid, apacs, lloyds, gartner

[17 Dec 2007]

Get "More IT for Less" in Retail Banking With Grid Computing

whitepaper 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...

Tags: business management, united states, department, credit

[12 Dec 2007]

O2 Tube trial takes mobile payments underground

News O2's vision is all these different cards will end up being apps in your phone, turning it into a virtual wallet that can be used to pay for travel, goods and services - in addition to doing all the other things a phone can do.

Tags: mobile wallet, nfc, o2, payments

[28 Nov 2007]

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