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Visa Payment Problems Resolved After Europe Wide Failure
Visa Payment Problems Are Now Resolved The last 24 hours have given many customers some big headaches. With Visa being the most popular format for debit card payments in the UK and Europe a service failure found many in the awkward position of attempting to pay for goods only to…
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US Consider Adding Social Media Vetting To Visa Applications
US Considers Making Social Media Accounts Part of the Visa Application I think it’s a reasonably fair thing to say that in most Western countries, immigration is one of the key factors of concern both for the government and nationals, but just how far does that remit go? In a…
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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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Visa’s Payment Ring Will Debut at the Rio Olympics
How we pay for things changes almost as quickly as the technology it uses, with us doing away with metal coins and paper notes for plastic notes and cards. These days you don’t even need to use your card directly, instead being able to tap your card against the 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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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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NSA “Follow The Money” Program Spies On International Bank Activity
In another shaking report from German publication Der Spiegel we now have reason to believe that the American NSA actually spies on all international transactions processed by companies like VISA. The revelation is hardly surprising but will anger many given the fact the NSA maintained that no commercial or industrial…
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Samsung and Visa Make Deal for Implementing Mobile Payment in Next-Gen NFC Devices
Efforts are made to make mobile payments easier and more practical in every step, like how Paypal introduced a mobile device to accept credit cards. Samsung went ahead and made a deal with Visa to do just that. The deal will allow Samsung to embed Visa’s own payWave mobile payment…
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