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A curious story here from the wackier, more inept and heavy-handed end of the ATM crime universe. Three men in Berlin have been arrested on suspicion of blowing up several cash machines during the yea...
One topic debated at Cartes last week and one which I've heard increasingly raised in recent months is the globalisation of EMV. As EMV is introduced into more regions, individual countries are attemp...
I have found an image of the VISA PIN card, and generally I like the idea. Today I have to carry a bankcard and a token as well, and I'm afraid of losing one. If this offering is cheap enough, Vasco a...
A study by Axa has found that more than one in three people admit to having misled a partner, friend or relation about the state of their finances. It also concludes the current dodgy state of the eco...
I note that the new Visa card with built-in OTP generator hails out of Oz. It makes me proud. It already has a transmitter/receiver (of sorts) and a keypad - all it needs is a microphone and a few twe...
It's interesting to note that people queue up outside faulty ATMs that dispense twice the amount of cash. Technology has its limitations and it's bound to go wrong at times, just like its creator. Hom...
It is a fair question. Most fraud is card based, law enforcement claims money from fraud goes to fund terrorism (and drug, etc). Customers have to wonder at the real price of the billions of dollars i...
The credit crunch hasn't quite hit the street fully if the retail sales trends over the last year are anything to go by. We were already seeing the warning signs of a sharp downturn in consumer spendi...
When I read this, my immediate thoughts (actually let's skip the first), were that if a scammer has called a victim and convinced them to go to an ATM and transfer money to the scammer's account, it i...
So, Cartes is over for another year. Of course, transport strikes featured along the way, but then, it wouldn't be Cartes without them, would it? The exhibition itself was awash with high-tech printer...
http://www.chorley-guardian.co.uk/chorley/Aliens-blamed-for-Chorley-powercut.4664808.jp
Gordon Brown should know better (and so should David Cameron, for that matter). GB has conducted a press conference this morning calling for the banks to reduce rates now that the BoE has done so. Fu...