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Sir; re Chips are down in fraud wars', (The Grocer, November 30, p14). As a trade publication, you only seem to consider the cost to the retailer of chip and pin technology on credit cards in a ...

A chip and PIN card is a credit card that includes microchip technology and a personal identification number (PIN) to securely verify a cardholder during a transaction. The embedded microchip is ...

Customers who pay for goods on credit or debit cards will have to pay using chip and pin by February next year. The Chip and Pin Programme is expected to announce today that customers will not be ...

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When a customer wishes to pay for goods using this system, the card is placed into a PIN pad terminal (often by the customer themselves) or a modified swipe-card reader, which accesses the microchip ...

On Jan. 19, police in Texas arrested two drivers carrying 96 fake credit cards, which authorities initially suspected were manufactured using numbers stolen in the massive Target credit card breach.

July 2006 Consumer security confidence and migration to chip and PIN is high on the agenda of those involved in the Middle East's cards market. Chris Woods from Thales eSecurity, spoke to Ruth McKee ...

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A major UK bank has urged customers to use Chip and Pin when using their card - rather than contactless - when abroad. Halifax spoke out on X, formerly Twitter, after a customer got in touch ahead of ...

Chiara is an award-winning investigative reporter who specialises in banking and fraud, joining Which? in 2015 following six years as a personal finance journalist at a national newspaper. Banks ...