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Amazon To Stop Accepting Payments From UK Visa Credit Cards

Costly fees. E-commerce giant Amazon says customers from January will not be able to pay for goods using a UK Visa credit card

The simplicity and popularity of contactless will see card payments overtake cash within five years, according to Payment Assocation

However minimum fares will rise by 20p in order to support new technology

KB Kookmin Bank, Lotte Card and NongHyup Card will not be able to issue credit cards for the next three months

Book and Nook seller says it was hoodwinked by a sophisticated criminal operation

Cybercrime discovered while investigating a real-world robbery

SOCA helps stop data-selling fraudsters spread in a major global operation

Sources say that more than 10 million credit card numbers may be compromised

Legal

Saudi hackers claim 400,000 Israeli credit cards compromised and promise to reveal more

Cloud

Fusion-io showed how its solid state drives could handle a world of credit card transactions on a single server

Cloud

Payments of up to £15 can now be made by contactless cards and mobile phones at the O2