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'Shoulder-surfing' chip and PIN fraud fear dismissed
News Fraud fears over the new chip and PIN credit and debit cards have been dismissed by APACS, the card payment body behind the programme. There is already evidence that fraudsters are... [08 Nov 2004]
Card spending beats cash
News A spokeswoman for Apacs told silicon.com: "We're increasingly going for debit cards over cash. The figures, from banking industry body Apacs, show use of retail... [19 Apr 2006]
Plastic for the people - cash ditched for cards
News Apacs said people are using debit cards rather than credit cards because they have become better at avoiding debt. Earlier this year Apacs reported that... [01 Aug 2006]
Chip and PIN credited for £36m drop in card fraud
News Apacs is launching a four-month 'I love PIN' campaign to encourage cardholders to find out, memorise and use their PINs for all their debit and credit cards. Payment industry body... [10 Oct 2005]
Death of cash? Not yet, say retailers...
News Research from the UK's payments association Apacs predicts, by 2015, less than half of all worldwide payments will be by cash, with three-fifths of current payments using notes and coins. A spokeswoman from... [12 Mar 2007]
Consumers spend £16bn online
News A spokeswoman for Apacs, said: "[C]redit cards are far more popular for online payment than debit cards - a direct reversal of card use in other retail environments. A... [12 Sep 2005]
Cheques go up in smoke but plastic is fantastic
News Apacs director of communications, Sandra Quinn, said as retailers stop accepting cheques it is expected that a large proportion of those payments will migrate to debit card payments. Cheque payments... [12 May 2008]
£1.1bn anti-fraud card scheme still on track
News The Chip and PIN project, which is backed by payment clearing body APACS, banks, card issuers and the British Retail Consortium, aims to issue 42 million people with 120 million of the new cards by 2005... [26 Jan 2004]
Chip and PIN heads for cyberspace
News Apacs, the Association for Payment Clearing Services, which is overseeing the rollout, insists that the new cards are much more secure than the old magnetic strip cards, despite claims... [27 Sep 2005]
Online security services reach 25 million cards
News According to payments organisation Apacs, the figure represents a year-on-year increase of 600 per cent on 2006 and 150 per cent in the last 12 months. According to Apacs, online retailers who use... [23 Sep 2008]
Would you credit it? The debit card turns 20
News According to figures from industry group Apacs, 143 purchases are made with them every second, accounting for 6.8 billion transactions per year. And 20 years later, around 68 million debit... [01 Jun 2007]
'Tap and go' plastic arrives in London
News Payments industry body Apacs estimates more than five million contactless cards will be issued by the end of 2008 in the UK and that they will be accepted by at least 100,000 retailers. The MasterCard... [04 Sep 2007]
Chip and PIN slaps face-to-face fraud
News According to Apacs cards and fraud control manager of operations, Martin Lewis, and head of cards technical unit David Baker, there are now 133 million chip and PIN... [02 May 2007]
Credit card-mad Brits turn to internet for spending fix
News According to new figures from Apacs (Association for Payment Clearing Services), one in 10 credit card transactions was made over the internet last year, with the popularity of internet shopping rising fivefold over the... [09 Aug 2004]
UK Banks hope to play their smartcards right
News APACS spokesman, Richard Tyson-Davies, said: "Each bank will make its own decision about timing, but we expect credit and debit smartcards to start rolling out next year. Banks and building societies in... [07 Jul 1998]
