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With data security cases rising in number and severity, the various industries affected are pulling together in an attempt to reduce the risk of fraud. The Payment Card…

As EMV has been rolled out across Europe, issuers have faced a choice between static data authentication and dynamic data authentication, or SDA and DDA. Many banks, especially…

Although fraud remains a concern in all payment channels, contactless payments should be viewed as robust from a security point of view. The industry has been careful to add…

The advanced EMV implementations in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE are not typical of the region. Generally speaking, banks in other Middle East countries have been slower to…

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…

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…