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FNB system crash exasperates customers
August 29, 2012
South Africa's First National Bank has been issuing mea culpas following an interruption of electronic services that briefly left customers unable to use their…
read nowBank customer complaints on the rise in Indian state
August 29, 2012
Bank customers in the India state of Odisha have lodged an increasing number of complaints about credit cards, debit cards and ATMs.
read nowPhilippines hopes biometric ID will foil fraud at the ATM
August 27, 2012
Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, a Philippines social welfare program, plans to introduce biometric ID as a means to fight fraud in the distribution of…
read nowFirst Financial FCU re-ups with Star Network
August 23, 2012
First Financial Federal Credit Union, a $950 million FI based in Maryland, has opted for a multi-year renewal with the Star Network. Under the agreement, Star…
read nowATM attacks, bank robberies take a 50% bump in Brazil
August 23, 2012
In the first half of this year, bank robberies and ATM attacks soared 50 percent, according to a recent study by Brazil's National Confederation of Security…
read nowFifth Third launches EMV for commercial cards
August 23, 2012
Fifth Third Bank, a $118 million FI based in Cincinnati, Ohio, has announced the launch of a new EMV-compliant chip card for commercial customers. The new…
read nowStudy: Brits favor cash, aren't keen on contactless
August 20, 2012
The U.K. continues to demonstrate a lack of appetite for contactless technology; only 17 percent of citizens there think a "cashless future" would make their…
read nowFrench ATMs fork over 1M to crooks
August 20, 2012
French banks are scrambling to plug a security gap that allowed criminals to steal more than €1 million ($1.24 million) from ATMs using nothing more than a…
read nowATMs get blown up down under
August 17, 2012
ATMs in and around Perth in Western Australia have been targeted in a series of bombings over the past few weeks.
read nowFiserv claims #1 rating in compliance monitoring, control
August 16, 2012
Financial services technology provider Fiserv Inc. announced that Operational Risk & Regulation magazine has ranked it first in the category of Compliance…
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Understanding security in transaction-based monitoring tools
by Marc Borbas — VP, Marketing, INETCO
I was doing a product demo the other day for a prospective partner when he asked, "You can actually pick up the credit card number in transactions?"
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Close the door, Richard!
by Richard Buckle — Founder and CEO, Pyalla Technologies, LLC
I travel a lot. Not so much by plane these days as by car, SUV and even RV. And this is by choice — I simply have lost patience with the process involved in…
read nowVietnam bank introduces fingerprint-enabled debit cards
August 9, 2012
Temenos, a provider of banking software, has announced the launch of Vietnam's first fingerprint-enabled debit card. Mekong Development Bank has implemented…
read nowNavy Army Community CU selects Fiserv for check imaging solution
August 7, 2012
Fiserv Inc., a provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that Navy Army Community Credit Union has selected a range of Fiserv check…
read nowFive-man gang swipes $500k in skimming operation
August 7, 2012
The U.S. Secret Service and 16 police agencies in and around Detroit are searching for five men they believe to be responsible for a skimming operation that…
read nowCard companies aim for April, 2013 EMV changeover in Australia
August 6, 2012
Visa and MasterCard have announced that by April of 2013, all of their cards issued by Australian banks will be EMV compliant.
read nowATMs dole out unlimited cash; cardholders charged with theft
August 3, 2012
Customers who took advantage of a hiccup in the ATM system of Australia's Commonwealth Bank that allowed them to withdraw more money than they had in their…
read nowNew regs give Canadians faster access to deposits
August 3, 2012
New Canadian banking regulations that came into force on Aug. 1, 2012, mean that customers who deposit a check in person with a federally regulated financial…
read nowSMP certifies PCI DSS consulting services
August 1, 2012
Waltham, Mass.-based Security Management Partners (SMP), an independent information security consulting firm, has announced its certification as a Qualified…
read nowEMV coalition to support U.S. move to chip-based payments
July 31, 2012
The Smart Card Alliance today announced the formation of an independent, cross-industry organization, the EMV Migration Forum. The forum will support the…
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