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Digital wallet card launches in Dundee
News The programme organisers claim payments made by the card are quicker than debit and credit cards because the sQuid uses NFC (near field communications) technology, also referred to as wave and pay.... [02 Sep 2008]
Cheques go up in smoke but plastic is fantastic
News The biggest growth is in debit cards, which have steadily increased in terms of value by £26bn in the last four years. Apacs director of communications, Sandra Quinn, said as retailers stop accepting... [12 May 2008]
O2 Tube trial takes mobile payments underground
News Visa has already launched a contactless payment system known as payWave which is available in some areas of London and enables customers to wave a credit or debit card in front of a reader to pay for low value goods... [28 Nov 2007]
Online shoppers think plastic is fantastic for Xmas
News European online shoppers will prefer to use credit cards rather than debit cards or PayPal when buying their Christmas presents this year. The average proportion of... [14 Nov 2007]
Online cash payments on the cards?
News But when HMV ran an online promotion for the band McFly to its great surprise it failed to generate the expected revenue because it had not fully realised the band's audience was too young to have access to debit and... [22 Oct 2007]
'Tap and go' plastic arrives in London
News The MasterCard PayPass and Maestro PayPass contactless cards allow consumers to buy items costing less than £10 by simply waving their debit or credit card in front of a reader. The so-called "tap and... [04 Sep 2007]
Would you credit it? The debit card turns 20
News And 20 years later, around 68 million debit cards are in circulation in the UK. The growth in popularity of debit cards has outstripped that of the credit card, with 85... [01 Jun 2007]
Barclays targets taxis with wave-and-pay tech
News The pair have developed a showcase cab as part of Barclays' ongoing trial to add Visa 'wave and pay' and Oyster capability onto credit cards and debit cards. Barclays and Computer Cab... [27 Apr 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. There's also... [12 Mar 2007]
Oyster and e-money credit cards coming to London
News The bank will do a live trial early next year with a view to rolling out the 'wave and pay' credit and debit cards across the capital from 2007. Barclaycard, Transport for London (TfL) and Visa have... [13 Dec 2006]
Plastic for the people - cash ditched for cards
News Over the last six months, £151bn worth of purchases were made using plastic, 70 per cent of which were made using a debit card. We're all using debit cards more than... [01 Aug 2006]
Plastic fantastic - the future of credit cards
News In Japan all new handsets come with a built-in chip designed to hold your bank debit details, and the facility has proved wildly popular as a means of paying for the country's transport system. What's important about... [04 Jul 2006]
Are cash machines heading for extinction?
News Some people argue the days of using cash are numbered; already more shopping is done using debit cards than cash. So what does this inevitable march of the credit and debit card mean for... [25 Apr 2006]
Card spending beats cash
News A spokeswoman for Apacs told silicon.com: "We're increasingly going for debit cards over cash. Spending on both credit and debit cards continued to increase last year,... [19 Apr 2006]
Chip and PIN credited for £36m drop in card fraud
News Fraud on counterfeit and lost and stolen plastic debit and credit cards is down by almost a third from £126.6m in the first half of last year to £89.9m for the same period this year.... [10 Oct 2005]
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