MasterCard Worldwide didn’t come right out and say it, but the card brand is encouraging U.S. issuers and merchants to embrace chip-and-PIN technology as part of a migration to the EMV smart card ...

Starting next year, Target will issue its branded credit and debit cards as MasterCard chip-and-pin cards, the company said Tuesday. The retailer's REDcard portfolio includes a Target-branded debit ...

Mastercard is officially the first major card vendor to introduce a biometrics-based payment card after the company announced successful trials of this new technology in South Africa. The company's ...

MasterCard International today announced strong growth in PIN debit worldwide for the fourth quarter and full-year of 2004, resulting in more than 562.6 million cards issued as of December 31, 2004, ...

On Friday, Mastercard announced that it is partnering with payment processing companies Verifone and Global Payments to help speed up chip and pin transactions at stores by incorporating its M/Chip ...

On Thursday, MasterCard announced a “next generation biometric card” which embeds fingerprint recognition into debit cards. That may not be good news. The card requires customers to place their thumb ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Shoppers and diners will have to remember even more secret numbers if credit card companies are allowed to ban them from signing for ...

MasterCard is trialling a Chip and PIN bankcard that includes an embedded fingerprint reader, introducing a biometric authentication layer for card payments — and taking a leaf out of the book of ...

There’s money —a lot of money — to be made helping people spend theirs, from signing on a check and swiping a card to tapping your phone on a point-of-sale terminal. The billion-dollar companies that ...

The Durbin Amendment’s transaction-routing requirements, which have been in effect now for three years, are widely thought to have benefited merchants by increasing competition for debit card traffic.

Discover how EMV technology secures transactions, its benefits over traditional systems, and its limitations in online ...

(Reuters) - Mastercard Inc and Visa Inc will rely on China reopening to give travel spending a boost, Wall Street analysts said, as the pace of growth in other parts of the world eases from a ...