April 1, 2014 - FIS™ (NYSE:FIS), the world's largest provider of banking and payments technology, and its NYCE® Payments Network today announced a licensing agreement to make the Visa® EMV ® debit solution available to all NYCE participants.

March 28, 2014 - Global retail bank IT spending is tipped to hit $152.5 billion by 2018 as banks worldwide focus on digital delivery channel investment to attract customers, according to research by analyst group Ovum.

March 26, 2014 - PCI security vendor Trustwave has been accused of failing to detect vulnerabilities in Target's handling of credit card data ahead of last year's data breach, according to a law suit filed by Trustmark National Bank of New York and Green Bank of Houston.

March 24, 2014 - The Californian Department of Motor Vehicles is investigating a potential security breach within its credit card processing services.

March 21, 2014 - SmartMetric (OTCQB: SMME) is readying to move into production of its fingerprint activated EMV chip credit and debit card.

March 14, 2014 - Card companies MasterCard and Visa have announced the formation of a cross-industry effort to improve the safety and security of card payments. The firms have announced the partnership in a bid to ensure payment security meets the needs of financial institutions and retailers, who face cyber attacks that are growing in frequency and sophistication.

March 14, 2014 - Fraud losses on UK cards totalled £450.4 million in 2013, a 16% rise on the total in 2012 of £388.3 million.