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A condom with a hole

Google made waves last week with their announcement about Host Card Emulation (HCE) solution that allows, inter alia, to "emulate" EMV without requiring any secure element (SE). Oh my... Google's own source claims that "Android HCE emulates ISO/IEC 7816 based smart cards". Well, ISO 7816 is a standard for contact (!) cards tha...

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Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Why Smartphones will kill Credit Card Rewards

Credit cards are expensive. According to BankRate.com the average US annual percentage rate (APR) charges on credit cards is 15.35%[1], but that’s down in recent years. During the financial crisis some US-based credit card APRs went as high as 39.6%[2] as banks like Bank of American tried to compensate for increasing risk, or unwind high-risk cre...

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How to Develop Certifications for New Payment Technologies ?

A chat with Hugues Thiebeauld, UK Security Lab. Manager at UL Security Technologies, on specificity of Certifications for New Payment “With the success of new technology in the payments space largely dependent on wide-spread adoption by banks, retailers and consumers, developing certifications for these products is vital. Why? Because there is a ...

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David Divitt

David Divitt Senior Fraud Product Manager at VocaLink

Lifecycle of a fraud

Card fraud is a massive problem around the world, costing banks and consumers time and money. Even when we seem to be making headway the criminals find another way in, which is why we see stats such as those from the UK earlier this year, which showed that fraud losses on UK issued cards climbed 14 per cent last year to hit £388 million, the first...

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Contact-less Mess

Contactless / proximity payments are all the hype these days (actually last several years). They are supported and heavily marketed by pretty much all payment schemes. Mastercard has PayPass, Visa has PayWave, American Express has ExpressPay, Discover has ZIP and JCB has JSpeedy. Similarly, the NFC based mobile proximity payments (mainly using s...

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Payments romance: When Apple met NFC

The yearly Apple keynote wasn't a demonstration of new products. Since its inception it's increasingly become a parade of the firm's utter dominance of the consumer technology market. A stunt of self-publicity focused just as much on its own glory than future potential. And rightly so. I don't care much for self-promotion, but if you've done as mu...

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Mervin Amos

Mervin Amos Senior Pre-Sales Engineer at NCR ATLEOS

A payment system checklist

Payment systems are complex and no two are the same, but if you’re thinking of upgrading or changing your payment system, there are five key areas to consider with your prospective platform. Control Institutions need to be able to take control of their payment system themselves. Gone are the days of budgeting 10 years’ fees to keep paying the origi...

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David Divitt

David Divitt Senior Fraud Product Manager at VocaLink

Bayesian v Neural Networks

Payment fraud evolves constantly, changing and adapting to the systems, networks and infrastructure. Criminals are always on the lookout for a weak link in the payment cycle to exploit, altering their behaviour to extract maximum value from their fraud activities. Responding to this ever-changing landscape is the responsibility of everyone involved...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Digitalize or die

It is a wellknown fact that the capability of IT is doubling in relation to its cost every year. It seems to be less wellknown what it means when something huge is doubling and doubling and.. (Ray Kurzweiler knows) for enterprises, the public sector and national economies. For European enterprises - struggling with both cost and service capability...

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The Mobile Generation and Banks that Stand Still

I went to a banking technology seminar just over a year ago where the main focus of the presentations was how to create a single universal payment message type and the issues around customer ID&V. The subject inevitably turned to the UK Payments Council new Scheme - since Account Switching is going live end of this month and they needed somet

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