Credit card users will be given the option of entering a PIN as an alternative to signing their name to authenticate a transaction under a banking industry initiative scheduled to start today. Simon ...

MasterCard International today announced strong growth in PIN debit worldwide for the fourth quarter and full-year of 2004, resulting in more than 562.6 million cards issued as of December 31, 2004, ...

For the best fraud protection, you should take full advantage of chip and PIN credit cards. The chip and PIN credit card revolution is well under way in the United States, and the change is leaving ...

SAN FRANCISCO — That authoritative sstpp sound that comes from swiping a credit card through a reader is going away, to be replaced with the snick-snick of a card dip. It's the aural confirmation that ...

MasterCard is trialling a Chip and PIN bankcard that includes an embedded fingerprint reader, introducing a biometric authentication layer for card payments — and taking a leaf out of the book of ...

There’s money —a lot of money — to be made helping people spend theirs, from signing on a check and swiping a card to tapping your phone on a point-of-sale terminal. The billion-dollar companies that ...

The Durbin Amendment’s transaction-routing requirements, which have been in effect now for three years, are widely thought to have benefited merchants by increasing competition for debit card traffic.

On Friday, Mastercard announced that it is partnering with payment processing companies Verifone and Global Payments to help speed up chip and pin transactions at stores by incorporating its M/Chip ...

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