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Mastercard to Introduce Biometric Credit Cards
MasterCard have revealed a new credit card with an inbuilt biometric fingerprint reader as an additional security means to tackle credit card fraud. The technology works similar to that used on Smartphones where to issue payment, you must have your finger over the sensor to read your print and confirm payment.…
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Walmart Suing Visa to Ensure Customers Use Pin
Remember when you got that new bank card through the post and the first thing you forgot to do was sign the back of the card? This signature is used to protect your card and help you prove who you are, even sometimes authorising payments. The latter of these uses…
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Contactless Payment Use Surged In 2015
Remember the days when you handed over coins and pieces of paper to buy everything from sweets to a new car. These days it’s all done via virtual currencies like bitcoins and small pieces of plastic that we keep in our wallets, or even our phones. You will soon be…
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London Cabs Set To Allow Contact-less Payments By 2017
So there you are, having been busy rushing around London doing your shopping and decide you want to quickly grab a taxi back home, only to find you won’t be able to because you don’t have any cash on your person. It happens and normally the alternative for people these…
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Malware In Hilton Hotels Results in Card Details Being Stolen
How often do you use your card? When you pop down to the shop and breaking that ten-pound note will result in too many coins to carry back? How about when you’re buying things online? Finally, how many have used their cards to book hotels? If you’ve stayed at a…
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Samsung Pay Users Best Avoid Rooting Their Phones
First you paid in coins, then you paid in notes, then you swiped your card and put in some numbers, now you don’t even swipe your card to pay with it. So what could be next for paying for everything? With the recent release of Apple Pay, the answer seems…
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