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Popular Mechanics
January 2007
Joel Johnson |
RFID Credit Cards and Theft: Tech Clinic Bad news: Scammers can scan your new RFID-enhanced credit card from more than 2 ft. away. But is it any more vulnerable than a conventional credit card?   |
Fast Company
April 2013
Skylar Bergl |
Visa And MasterCard Add Encryption For RFID Fears As RFID chips rolled out in credit cards, steel wallet sales rose -- a response to fears of data theft. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2007 |
Upgrade Wish List: Scanner-Proof Wallet The Datasafe Wallet prevents radio frequency identification (RFID) chips on cards from getting scanned. |
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. |
InternetNews
February 28, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Coming Soon: The Credit Card Cell Phone Start-up ViVOTech wants to put your credit cards in your cell phone so you have a little less plastic to carry around. |
BusinessWeek
November 5, 2007
Cliff Edwards |
Gift Cards with a Personal Touch Put your photo or special messages on gift cards - they're Visa's bid to regain share from stores and restaurants. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2010
Carl Bagh |
Looming Threat for Visa, MasterCard From AT&T, Verizon Now your smartphone really can do everything -- including paying the bills! |
The Motley Fool
May 11, 2006
Selena Maranjian |
Credit Cards Get Even Easier Paying by credit card is, in many places, becoming a faster way to pay. Investors, remember that credit cards are big business. Many banks sporting high dividends and are likely to keep making money off credit cards in the years ahead. |
The Motley Fool
October 11, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Credit Card Competition Coming The legal defeat for Visa and MasterCard is a victory for some other firms, such as American Express, and also for some card-issuers. As competition heats up, we may enjoy better rates and service. |
Bank Systems & Technology
October 1, 2006
Nancy Feig |
Contactless Payments Aim to Take a Bite Out of Small Cash Transactions The final frontier in payments is cash replacement for small transactions, according to Mark Friedman, president and CEO of Peppercoin. |
InternetNews
April 4, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Privacilla: RFID For Goods, Not People A conservative think tank came out against the U.S. proposal to place radio frequency identification (RFID) chips in all citizens' passports. |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2005
Steven Mallas |
It's All About the Blink Credit cards go high-tech using RFID technology with the introduction of the contactless payment. |
Bank Technology News
February 2002
Jan Jaben Eilon |
Smart Cards Make Their Move The U.S. market is showing it is now ready to give chip cards a shot... |
InternetNews
May 20, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Chase Customers Can 'Blink' at Register Chase Bank USA begins a national rollout of RFID-enabled charge cards. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2009
Mark Anderson |
Quirks of RFID Memory Make for Cheap Security Scheme On-board SRAM produces unique chip fingerprint and random numbers needed for encryption |
Bank Technology News
May 2001
Louise West |
Visa Speeds Up Move to Chip in Europe Visa has announced an investment program designed to accelerate the move to smart cards in an effort to combat increasing card fraud in Europe... |
InternetNews
May 31, 2006
Roy Mark |
RFID as Big Brother? Please. A prominent Washington IT trade group is taking exception to a new government draft report raising privacy concerns over the use of RFID for human tracking. |
InsideFlyer
August 2012 |
Wallaby Launches A new website has launched which helps members of loyalty programs get the most miles/points for their credit card purchases -- an easy way to "swipe smarter". |
The Motley Fool
January 27, 2011
Morgan Housel |
A Big Myth About U.S. Consumers Why we haven't given up on credit cards. |
InternetNews
August 2, 2010 |
Smart Card Shipments Explode What's going to drive even wider adoption of smart cards? |
Bank Systems & Technology
January 29, 2005
Cynthia Ramsaran |
RFID Gains Traction In a move that is expected to speed the adoption of contactless payment devices, retail pharmacy CVS will accept American Express' ExpressPay, a contactless form of payment that uses radio frequency identification (RFID). |
The Motley Fool
February 9, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Convenient or Costly? New developments in credit cards have a hidden price tag. |
The Motley Fool
June 11, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Will That Be Credit or Debit? Think twice before assuming you're using the right card. |
Bank Technology News
October 2002
Mark Bruno |
UK Banks Eye Smart Cards Abbey National dabbled with the idea of multi-function smart cards, but found security to be the bank's real sweet spot. |
| 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... |
PC Magazine
September 7, 2004
Karen Jones |
New Frontiers for RFID Tags Depending on how closely you guard your privacy, RFID is either a benevolent new technology or Big Brother waiting to pounce. |
U.S. Banker
November 2006
Michael Sisk |
A Nation of Debit-ors: Paying Now, Not Later The credit-card culture seems to be drying up, as debit-card usage skyrockets. Since debit cards are linked to checking accounts, that's good news for small banks wanting to get in on the action. |
PC Magazine
October 28, 2003 |
The Lookout: A Fix for RFID Researchers at RSA Security's lab have come up with a technique they say will eliminate many of the privacy concerns surrounding the use of RFID (radio frequency identification) tags. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2008 |
RFID Market Grew to $5 Billion in 2007 The value of the radio frequency identification (RFID) market grew strongly in 2007, mainly powered by a peak in deliveries of the Chinese national ID card. |
CIO
July 1, 2005
Thomas Wailgum |
Is Big Brother Coming to Your Wallet? Despite privacy worries, the march is on toward putting RFIDs in individuals' wallets, whether or not they want them. Whenever companies decide to deploy RFIDs containing personal data, CIOs will have to figure out what's going to be done with the data. |
Fast Company
March 2002
Charles Fishman |
What Do Smart Cards Do? In reality, for the moment, it is style over substance. But in the future, a single card could be your AmEx, your Visa, your debit, your frequent-flier card, and your driver's license. But that's a long way off... |
BusinessWeek
October 28, 2010
Eichenbaum & Majmudar |
Why U.S. Credit Cards May Not Work Abroad The EMV card standard, popular elsewhere, isn't embedded into U.S. cards, and there's no rush to fix the problem. |
The Motley Fool
October 14, 2004
David FitzMaurice |
Battling for Profits Why American Express and Discover will make more money competing for customers. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2006
Stephen Cass |
Better Safe Than Sorry This wallet is going to keep high-tech thieves at bay. |
CIO
February 1, 2007
Michael Fitzgerald |
All Charged Up MasterCard gets a payoff through a flexible approach to IT-enabled product development. |
InsideFlyer
March 2004 |
Don't Look a Gift Card in the Mouth From the moment the miles-and-points game was invented, mileage junkies have been on the lookout for ways to beat the system. Recently, they seem to have stumbled upon a doozy. But though perfectly legal, there are some potential dangers involved. |
Bank Technology News
February 2010
Daniel Wolfe |
Has 'Tap and Go' Lost Its Touch? Issuers are mailing out contactless credit and debit cards by the millions, it's not clear how often they are being used. |
U.S. Banker
January 2005
Holly Sraeel |
MasterCard. Visa. Amex. Welcome to the Sandbox. Citibank's decision to issue Amex cards to its customers will force other large banks to follow suit -- exactly what MasterCard and Visa have been dreading. |
Bank Systems & Technology
August 5, 2004
Cynthia Ramsaran |
Pay Now, Buy Later Card companies look at prepaid as a third category - in addition to credit and debit. |
The Motley Fool
February 20, 2007
Mary Dalrymple |
Do You Have Too Many Credit Cards? See how you stack up against the average credit card-carrying consumer. |
Bank Technology News
February 2004 |
By The Numbers Consumer payment associations are targeting the U.S., where high rates of card penetration and low levels of mobile data usage have left mobile proximity payments off merchants' and consumers' radar screens. |
BusinessWeek
June 21, 2004
Gene G. Marcial |
No Need To Swipe These Smart Cards Contactless Smart Cards are coming -- from Israel's On Track Innovations. Its new technology lets a microprocessor read cards without users having to swipe them through a groove. A potential big player in Homeland Security makes this a stock to watch. |
Bank Technology News
December 2001
Maria Bruno |
Govt. Makes Antitrust Case Ruling For anyone wondering what a world with American Express and Discover bank cards would be like, your chance to find out might soon arrive... |
InternetNews
October 26, 2005
Tim Gray |
E-Passports Will be a Reality in 2006 Americans holding U.S. passports issued after October 2006 will carry embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) chips inside the documents, according to the U.S. State Department. |
InternetNews
October 13, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Motorola Tests M-Commerce Motorola and MasterCard want to prove that reducing the fumble factor can save merchants money. |
InternetNews
October 23, 2006
Roy Mark |
U.S. E-Passports Hitting Market Four years in the making, RFID-embedded passports meeting milestones. |
CIO
August 1, 2012
Jeremy Kirk |
Industry Group Formed to Guide U.S. Payment Card Upgrade An industry group launched on Tuesday will guide a massive upgrade of the U.S. payment card system to a new platform designed to prevent card fraud. |
The Motley Fool
December 12, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Credit Cards' Travel Troubles Don't get caught without currency in Europe. Your trip can quickly become a bummer if the credit card you brought with you keeps getting rejected. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 28, 2009
Maria Bruno-Britz |
U.S. Bank Pilots Multifunction Credit Card The AccelaPay Visa card acts as mag stripe, contactless and ID card. |
