0704 Few have heard of VbV and pop-ups alarm them, says Miles Brignall The bank and credit card company Visa has defended the way it has introduced an online security system, despite causing a great deal of confusion among internet shoppers. Verified...

0704 L'Américain First Data, le plus important opérateur de transactions de paiements au monde, sera actif en Belgique à partir de cette année. Par le biais de sa filiale First Data Belgium fondée en mars dernier, First Data sera ainsi concurrent direct...

The Smart Payment Association (SPA) says that over 340 million payment smart cards were shipped in 2006 worldwide, most of which complied with EMV. The members of the smart card industry body are Gemalto, Giesecke & Devrient, Oberthur Card Systems and...

0704 U.S mobile payments transaction volume will exceed US$6.9 billion in 2011, according to a study from U.S.-based consultancy Mercator Advisory Group. The report also forecasts that mobile banking fee revenues will be worth over US$1 billion in 2011....

0704 There are real opportunities for banks in the prepaid cards market, according to U.S-based consultancy Edgar, Dunn & Company (EDC). But banks need to watch out that they are not left behind by non-bank providers of prepaid products. In a presentation...

0704 Twenty percent of mobile handsets worldwide will include Near Field Communication (NFC) technology by 2012, according to New York-based ABI Research. However, NFC-enabled mobile handsets will not become widely available until wireless operators see...

0704 Belgian mobile operator BASE has launched an m-payments service which enables its subscribers to pay merchants using SMS text messaging. The service also allows subscribers to top up their BASE prepaid mobile phone accounts from their bank accounts....

0704 Debit card readers will be given to as many as 500,000 Barclays current account holders who turn to internet banking when moving cash to others. The PINsentry devices are akin to a small calculator in design and the UK bank says the move means people...

0704 Boots is set to ban cheque payments at around 1,500 stores in the UK and Ireland from May 1. The retailer is the latest high street name to restrict chequebook payments in UK stores, and initially trialled the ban in Surrey and Sussex. It says that...

0704 Entretien avec Alex Türk, président de la CNIL égolène Royal vient de proposer de renforcer les autorités garantes des libertés, dont la CNIL. La demande de sécurité qui s'exprime depuis 2001 a-t-elle entraîné un recul des libertés ? Les textes législatifs...