28 Sep 16 @ 06:09

PULSE DEBIT CARD issuers saw card performance metrics in 2015 hold steady, according to a recent study. However the adoption of mobile payments and EMV chip migration has been disappointing.... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:01

AUSTRALIANS SPENT AU$1.92 trillion using cards and cheques in 2015; of which 0.025 percent or AU$469 million worth of transactions was fraudulent. While some areas of card fraud have declined,... read more

27 Sep 16 @ 13:16

Ten years after the founding of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), we present a mid-term report on the industry’s data security efforts. As both cyber attacks... read more

25 May 16 @ 08:23

WITH NO SCREEN, card reader or PIN-pad, the ATM of the future will look very different. Diebold’s mobile-driven ATM will also be up to 37 percent narrower on the customer’s... read more

24 May 16 @ 15:29

IOVATION AND AITE Group have developed an impact note entitled EMV: Issuance Trajectory and Impact on Account Takeover and CNP. The report calculates that card-not-present fraud – fraudulent transactions where... read more

01 Oct 15 @ 08:35

As the US payments industry migrates to EMV to deter counterfeit card fraud, many stakeholders are looking to bring their payment terminals, mobile point- of-sale (mPOS) and kernel products to... read more

31 May 15 @ 15:06

Ingenico Group and Intel Corporation have announced a collaboration to combine Intel technology and Ingenico Group secure payment acceptance for the Internet of Things. The companies will jointly develop a... read more

31 May 15 @ 14:52

The US payments industry will have only partially converted to the EMV chip card standard by the crucial deadline at the end of 2015. Javelin Strategy & Research predicts that... read more

30 Mar 15 @ 17:19

According to the Retail Crime Survey, UK retailers have said that fraud increased by 12 per cent year-on-year in 2013-14 and accounted for 37 per cent of the total cost... read more

30 Jan 15 @ 13:37

In 2013, cards and payments at the POS and on the internet continued to drive growth in many European countries. The rollout of contactless cards and mPOS terminals gains momentum... read more

30 Jan 15 @ 13:07

Bold steps like the implementation of EMV chip and PIN, 3-D Secure and other stronger forms of authentication have contained fraud in Europe’s payment card business. Good news, one would... read more

30 Jan 15 @ 12:39

France’s national interbank network, Cartes Bancaires, has introduced new technology in an effort to defeat payment card fraud. The introduction of EMV in 2003 saw card fraud fall to zero... read more

03 Dec 14 @ 11:54

Card payments continue to be central to much human activity. However, new technologies, the internet, new legal frameworks, card fraud, and other competing payment services have challenged and transformed the... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 22:35

Spurred by major data breaches at Target and other stores, the US banking and retail sectors are turning to more secure EMV payment cards, causing US shipments of these cards... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:33

The major US card issuers have undertaken a wave of mass credit and debit card reissuance following the Target data breach in late 2013 which affected around 40 million credit... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 20:42

New figures released on UK fraud by Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA UK) show that levels of card and online banking fraud rose during 2013. Improved fraud detection and prevention... read more

30 Jan 14 @ 00:40

New research from consultancy Celent shows that EMV migration in the US has been painfully slow so far. According to Celent, fraud migrates to the weakest link in the system,... read more

29 Jul 13 @ 05:39

Card-not-present fraud levels are rising in many regions despite intense efforts to combat this pernicious threat. What is the industry doing to counter it? by Victoria Conroy It is a... read more

28 Jul 13 @ 15:26

A new report from consultancy Value Partners and law firm Locke Lord has profiled how this ever-present threat risks undermining commerce, banking and entire economies. Given that fraud is one of... read more