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Visa Smart Cards
White Paper Visa Smart Debit and Visa Smart Credit cards provide a number of advantages to merchants and retailers over traditional magnetic stripe cards. The portable convenience of smart cards even stretches consumers' payment options beyond the physical... [03 Jul 2008]
Photos: Shopping just got high-tech
Photo The SmartTransaction watch has a port for a SIM-sized smart card that acts as a payment card. The green credentials at a time when retailers a making more of carbon neutrality could swing opinion more in favour of reusable ESELs though. [27 Jun 2008]
WebSphere Commerce Version 6.0.0.2 and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
White Paper The standard lists twelve (12) requirements which retailers, online merchants, credit data processors, and other payment related businesses must implement to help protect cardholders and their data. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security... [25 Jun 2008]
Protecting Credit Card Data: How to Achieve PCI Compliance
White Paper It's a problem that affects everyone in the retail supply chain - the payment card companies, the banks, the retailers, and the individual customers whose identities are compromised. And while there are many ways to implement network protection... [31 May 2008]
PCI Compliance Cost Analysis: A Justified Expense
White Paper The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) was created by the credit card companies and is intended to protect cardholder data wherever it resides, ensuring that merchants and service providers maintain the highest degree of... [31 May 2008]
Encrypting Recordings Is Not Enough: Steps to Protect Your Most Sensitive Data
White Paper The PCI Data Security Standards were created to protect the personal and financial data customers entrust to retailers, banks, service providers, and credit card companies. As fraud and identity theft becomes more prevalent, businesses that record... [13 May 2008]
Is Your WLAN Putting Your PCI Compliance at Risk?
White Paper Retailers that are not in compliance are subject to fines or suspension of credit card processing privileges. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard was created in 2004 by major credit card companies - American Express, Discover... [13 May 2008]
Credit crunch prompts the great cash comeback
News The consortium puts the cost to retailers of processing a credit card transaction at up to 17 times higher than the charge for handling a cash payment and accuses card companies of pushing cashless payments as a way of boosting their own revenue. [21 Apr 2008]
Police chief: Cyber crime is everywhere
News Her warning came as payment clearing industry body Apacs released figures showing that £532.2m was lost to card fraud in 2007 - a 25 per cent rise since 2006. Soca has also announced it plans to work more closely with online retailers to share... [19 Mar 2008]
Geography lessons for online retailers
Comment For instance, online retailers and payment processors use geolocation to detect possible credit card fraud by comparing the user's location with the billing address on the account or the shipping address provided, or identifying known IP addresses... [09 Jan 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 without needing to enter a PIN. [28 Nov 2007]
E-payments: Cheap as chips
News E-payments also cost both shoppers and retailers money, Kyte said, but the amounts are typically lower than existing payment systems. This is not only due to the money credit and debit card systems cost retailers, it also comes from processing the... [27 Nov 2007]
Online cash payments on the cards?
News There is already evidence that this is starting to happen as a number of major retailers are considering adding alternative payment methods to the standard debit and credit card. New Look is one of the first retailers to include PayPal as a payment... [22 Oct 2007]
'Tap and go' plastic arrives in London
News The rollout of contactless card readers has started in London, in several areas including Canary Wharf, with participating retailers in the rest of the UK set to get the tech over the course of next year. [04 Sep 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Chip and PIN
Cheat Sheet Counterfeit card fraud was also cut by 24 per cent in 2005 while card fraud at retailers fell by an impressive 47 per cent in 2006, meaning a £146.7m fall in the two years Chip and PIN had been in place. [13 Jun 2007]
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