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PC World
October 23, 2006
Yardena Arar |
Consumer Watch: Protect Yourself Against Credit Fraud New options help prevent miscreants from racking up charges on your card.   |
U.S. Banker
December 2001
Robert A. Bennett |
'I Didn't Do It' MasterCard and Visa are having a hard time fighting Internet and telephone fraud. The technology is there, but there's little incentive for all parties to cooperate. Above all, MasterCard and Visa are duking it out with each other... |
The Motley Fool
March 22, 2007
Mary Dalrymple |
Shop Like a Spy If shopping online gives you spasms of identity-theft fear, you might be interested in certain protections that some credit cards have started building into their services. |
Bank Technology News
July 2003
Karen Krebsbach |
Biometric IDs Come of Age TouchCredit launches suite that combats on-line fraud |
Bank Systems & Technology
September 28, 2005
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Is the End of Cash at Hand? The growing comfort with digital and wireless technologies may be largely responsible for the recent upswing in e-payments. Of course, the trend has not gone unnoticed by the financial services industry. |
Bank Technology News
October 2001
Maria Bruno |
Microsoft Gives Boost to Surrogate Card Numbers Its seal of approval has skeptics wondering whether competing online payment security technology will be left floundering... |
PC World
January 2002
Steve Bass |
Wily Tricks to Thwart E-Thieves Keep your money -- and your identity -- safe while you're on the Web... |
The Motley Fool
August 14, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
How Insecure Is Your Credit Card? The plastic in your pocket may not fight fraud as well as you think. |
Bank Technology News
February 2001
Maria Bruno |
Fraud Flat Despite Visa Application An anti-fraud initiative Visa USA rolled out on time for holiday shopping appears not to have diminished online fraud... |
Bank Technology News
November 2007
Anthony Malakian |
Strategic Alliances: Wells Teams With Discover For Merchant Payments Discover faces a fierce battle for merchant payments business from the likes of American Express. Wells Fargo is hungry to expand its merchant payment acceptance options. That makes a strategic alliance between the two firms a no brainer. |
U.S. Banker
September 2007
John Bingham |
Data Breaches' Sophistication Prompt 'Digital Dozen' Standards Taking measures to prevent and deter data breaches is the best approach to avoiding the high cost of fraud. Collaborations among Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Card and JCB created a common industry security requirement known as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. |
CIO
August 15, 2002
Jon Surmacz |
MasterCard vs. PayPal Both companies are trying to agree on rules to govern transactions processed through PayPal, and PayPal is still processing MasterCard transactions. It could be in both parties' interests to resolve the conflict. |
The Motley Fool
November 14, 2007
Mary Dalrymple |
Stay Safe While Shopping Online Hide your identity when you hit the virtual mall. New security programs, such as false identity credit cards and online PIN numbers, can keep you safer while shopping online. |
Searcher
November 2005
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Another Phine Kettle of Phish: Identity Theft Prevention Ten things to do today to protect yourself against identity theft. |
InternetNews
February 25, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Speed the Wireless Payment RFID-enabled 'proximity' payments could go wide in 2005, but it's up to merchants to make the move. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2008
Sham Gad |
Visa's Big Deal The upcoming $19 billion IPO of Visa is kind of a big deal. In fact, if all goes as planned, it could be the largest IPO in U.S. history |
Bank Systems & Technology
March 29, 2006
Ivan Schneider |
Former FTC Chair Defends Card Industry in House Testimony Merchants claim they seek transparency and competition in interchange rates. |
InternetNews
June 22, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
MasterCard Charges Phishers The credit card company does its part to combat phishing phenomenon. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 4, 2005
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Cards Product innovation is key to growth in the card business, but the ability to grow without sacrificing security, speed and reliability is critical. Banks that can provide these things will achieve success. |
The Motley Fool
May 17, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Congress Drops an Axe on the Credit Card Industry Why suppressed interchange fees could kill Visa and MasterCard. |
Bank Technology News
May 2010
Daniel Wolfe |
Visa's CyberSource Buy Is an Anti Fraud Play Visa Inc.'s planned purchase of CyberSource Corp. shows the company's pursuit of mobile and online commerce also includes an eye on security risks. |
Bank Technology News
October 2005
Michael Dumiak |
Protecting Customer Data: Grappling With Lost Data, Broken Trust Data loss is an institution's worst nightmare. And with high profile cases like CardSystems, the largest players are playing damage control with customers-and facing the ire of Congress. |
Bank Technology News
June 2001
Karen Epper Hoffman |
Vendors Take Aim at Online Crooks Neural nets help combat payment fraud... |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2010
April Taylor |
2 Stocks That May Spring a Leak Visa and MasterCard have benefited mightily from consumers' shift from paper to plastic, garnering fees on each transaction. Will these companies' moats survive 2011? |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 1, 2006
Larry Greenemeier |
Growth Can Be Risky Business Most banks are expecting healthy growth over the next few years on the strength of their retail banking operations, according to a recent study. But are banks focusing enough on the issue of data security? |
BusinessWeek
July 3, 2006
Dean Foust |
ID Theft: More Hype Than Harm Law enforcement officials say the criminals tend not to follow through after stealing personal data. |
The Motley Fool
August 4, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Are Visa and MasterCard Really Under Attack? I wouldn't bet on it. These moats are still safe. |
U.S. Banker
October 2001
Mark Bruno |
Non-Existent Danger Visa says it will start pushing one of its newest services just in time for the holiday shopping season: Verified by Visa. It's just one more gimmick designed to make anxiety-ridden consumers feel safer about using their credit cards for Internet purchases... |
Bank Technology News
April 2006
Glen Fest |
Fraud Prevention: Engaging More Than The Enemy Banks could improve anti-fraud measures if they provided tools that draft customers into the battle. But it's not that simple for an industry still rife with soft spots. |
Bank Technology News
October 2001
Joseph McKendrick |
E-Wallets: Chasing The Holy Grail of E-Payments Merchants would like to keep card issuers out of the e-wallet picture... |
Bank Technology News
July 2005
Glen Fest |
Data Losses: Cardsystems Takes A Bullet After Breach Visa and American Express bid adieu to the processor, unable to forgive the firm for the compromise of customer data and flouting association rules. Was that fair-and is anyone next in the firing line? |
BusinessWeek
July 11, 2005
Berner & Carter |
Swiping Back At Credit-Card Fraud Bogus transactions are falling overall, but e-tailers are still feeling the pain. E-tail credit-card fraud is triple the rate of the brick-and-mortar world. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 1, 2006
Maria Bruno-Britz |
NACHA Takes Page From PayPal Electronic payments association NACHA plans to test a program that allows banks to act as intermediaries for consumers' online financial transactions, such as bill payments and purchases. |
PC World
March 2006
Anne Kandra |
Banking on the Web: Risky Business? The reality behind the risks, plus how to keep your online transactions secure. |
U.S. Banker
March 2004
John Engen |
Identity Victims Get Badly Needed Help Bankers view the industry's first stab at forging a unified response to the problem as a strong signal-sender. "Customers can see that we're banding together to stop this, and we can send a message to criminals that we're not working in a siloed fashion," says Mary Blegen, head of US Bancorp's fraud liaison center. |
BusinessWeek
December 5, 2005
Mara Der Hovanesian |
When The Bill Comes Due MasterCard's new IPO investors will have to pay the company's legal fees. |
Bank Systems & Technology
August 5, 2004
Thomas Claburn |
MasterCard Goes Fishing For Phishers MasterCard will use NameProtect's technology to detect online scams as they unfold and, in conjunction with law-enforcement organizations, shut them down. |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004
Dean Foust |
First Data: The Power Behind The Plastic After its merger with EFS, First Data's ownership of vast electronic-payment networks will provide it with a flow of fees the other rivals to MasterCard and Visa never had. |
Bank Technology News
December 2010
Andrew Johnson |
2010 Was Banking's Year of Mobile; Payments Next The recent Verizon, At&T, and Discover deals, along with a few others, suggests that next year will be the year that mobile payments dominate the headlines in the United States. But which business model will lead the industry is still anyone's guess. |
Bank Systems & Technology
March 30, 2004
Cynthia Ramsaran |
MasterCard Cashes In On Recurring Payments Merchants follow the card company's lead to improve their bottom lines by cutting processing costs and increasing customer retention with automatic payments. |
Bank Systems & Technology
August 27, 2009
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Evolving Fraud Schemes Keep Pressure on Evolving Payments Instruments While some of the latest schemes borrow from scams past, today's fraud schemes are as sophisticated as banks' most advanced payments systems. And stopping them is still a challenge. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
New Payment Methods Give Old-fashioned Checks and Credit Cards a Run for Their Money Emerging technologies are currently gaining momentum while paper check usage is in decline, according to a new study by the Federal Reserve... |
Entrepreneur
February 2002
Amanda C. Kooser |
Card Tricks Internet retailers face a struggle when it comes to chargebacks and fraud. |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Getting Rich on Credit Paying with plastic has simplified our lives -- but it's also made credit card companies very wealthy, and you're paying the price. |
Entrepreneur
February 2007
Melissa Campanelli |
Pay It Safe Security standards might make you rethink your payment system. |
Wall Street & Technology
November 21, 2006
Gregory Framke |
Ask The Experts: Customer Account Security Security risks are very real for financial institutions, whether they serve customers at a retail branch or over the Internet. |
Bank Technology News
May 2009
Steve Bills |
Which Comes First, Stickers or The Phones? Card companies are betting that if they stimulate consumer demand for mobile payments, it will spur the phone networks and manufacturers to move faster on improving the technology. |
InternetNews
November 10, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Fraud Chewing E-Commerce Profits Fraud will eat a $2.8 billion chunk out of e-commerce revenue in 2005, according to a new study. |
U.S. Banker
April 2011
Jeremy Quittner |
Breach Comber MasterCard's new technology identifies the likeliest victims of fraud and helps minimize unnecessary account closings. |
U.S. Banker
February 2005
Michael Sisk |
A Phish Story Phishing attacks (in which thieves send mass e-mails supposedly from reputable businesses) are expected to more than double in 2005, and are spreading to small banks. |
