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Card Or Mobile – Which Will Win?
July 29, 2009
Card Or Mobile – Which Will Win?

It’s clear that the roll-out of contactless is acting as a driver for payments made via mobile phone handsets. Although the majority of contactless roll-outs to date have been…

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Ensuring The Payment Infrastructure Can Manage
July 24, 2009
Ensuring The Payment Infrastructure Can Manage

If contactless payments take off as expected and replace even a small percentage of cash payments worldwide, card transaction volumes are likely to increase dramatically. From…

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Rolling Out Two-factor Authentication
July 2, 2009
Rolling Out Two-factor Authentication

Many UK banks have already addressed one area of weakness in online transactions – online banking. The introduction of smart card or CAP readers to provide two-factor…

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SEPA Security – Time To Take Action
June 24, 2009
SEPA Security – Time To Take Action

Although security is constantly high on financial institutions’ agendas, there is a growing concern that it is still not being fully discussed in relation to SEPA. A report by…

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EMV In The Middle East Remains Patchy
June 12, 2009
EMV In The Middle East Remains Patchy

Like many other parts of the world, card fraud is a growing problem for the Middle East region. As other markets strengthen their protection mechanisms through EMV, Middle…

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Extending E-banking Best Practice To E-commerce
June 2, 2009
Extending E-banking Best Practice To E-commerce

There is a strong case for the techniques introduced to provide greater security for online banking to be extended to protect the e-commerce channel. At a time when large-scale…

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