Debit / Credit News & Media
JCBI, Sri Lankan payments network to launch national card scheme
June 27, 2017
Sri Lanka's payments network, Lanka Clear — which is jointly owned by the nation's central bank and commercial banks — has announced a strategic partnership…
read nowVisa promises cashless (but not ATM-less) experience at FIFA event
June 14, 2017
Visa will deploy 1,600 point-of-sale terminals and 120 mobile concessionaires throughout the stadium concourses for the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 to be held…
read nowEMV cards in circulation worldwide top 6B
June 5, 2017
Official figures from aggregated data published by technical body EMVCo show that, by the end of 2016, the number of EMV payment cards in global circulation…
read nowPayment card use sees double-digit global growth in 2016
May 19, 2017
Global card purchase volume for goods and services (excluding cash advances on credit cards and cash withdrawals on debit cards), grew 5.8 percent to $20.60…
read nowMillennials likely to bail on banks, card companies in case of false declines
May 12, 2017
Iovation, a provider of device-based consumer authentication and fraud prevention solutions, has released findings from its study of the effects of false…
read nowJCB card access comes to ATMs, POS terminals across India
May 9, 2017
The National Payments Corp. of India and JCB International Co. Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co. Ltd., have implemented acceptance of…
read nowACI Worldwide expands relationship with Alipay
May 5, 2017
ACI Worldwide, a global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking products, has expanded its relationship with Alipay to enable merchants across…
read nowMEA sees double-digit growth of cards in circulation
May 5, 2017
The number of cards in the hands of consumers in the Middle East and Africa increased 13 percent in 2015, making it the world's fastest growing region…
read nowMasterCard qualifies personalization validation tool from FIME, Barnes
May 4, 2017
FIME and Barnes International have announced that their jointly developed personalization validation tool has been qualified against the latest Mastercard PVT…
read nowRussian hacker gets 27-year sentence for payment card data theft
April 25, 2017
It is notoriously difficult to extradite Russian hackers to face trial in the U.S. It was the misfortune of one Roman Seleznev, 32, of Vladivostok, Russia, to…
read nowStudy: Credit transaction amounts fall — along with cash use
April 14, 2017
Consumers are increasingly using credit cards to pay for small transactions, according to a new CreditCards.com survey.
read nowTMG technology simplifies chip card inventory management
March 16, 2017
Payments processor TMG has launched a new web-based tool to help credit unions and community banks better manage their plastic card stock, according to a press…
read nowCard payments continue to gain ground in UK
March 7, 2017
Brits spent 647 billion pounds ($853 billion) using payment cards last year compared with 620 billion in 2015, according to new data from the U.K. Cards…
read nowCPI fails to invalidate Gemalto EMV chip card patent claims
December 5, 2016
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has denied CPI challenges to the validity of several claims of U.S. Patent No. 5,944,833, which is owned by Gemalto and…
read nowMasterCard to use AI for fraud detection
December 2, 2016
MasterCard has introduced Decision Intelligence, which the company described in a press release as a comprehensive decisioning and fraud detection service. The…
read nowPayment card acceptance sees sizable uptick in 2015
November 29, 2016
The number of card-accepting merchant outlets worldwide rose more than 7 million in 2015 to 54 million, according to "Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts…
read now6-digit IIN is out; 8-digit IIN on the way
November 22, 2016
The standard behind the issuer identification number used on many personal cards, for example credit cards, is changing, according to an ISO press release.
read nowIn the US, bankcard use to continue steady ascent through 2020
November 11, 2016
Credit, debit, and prepaid cards issued in the United States initiated 104.41 billion purchase transactions in 2015, up 8 percent from the previous year…
read nowWorldwide increase in bank accounts boosts card numbers
November 3, 2016
The Middle East and Africa and Asia-Pacific were the fastest-growing regions for payment cards in 2015, with card numbers up 13 percent and 10 percent…
read nowFIs get a sharper view of card portfolio performance with SmartLook
October 20, 2016
Payment solutions provider TMG has launched or enhanced several data analytics solutions for its credit and debit card-issuing clients.
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