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How a PIN Works on Credit Cards and Debit Cards

Clearly Payments

As a merchant, understanding how a PIN (Personal Identification Number) works with credit and debit card transactions is essential for running a secure and efficient payment process. This guide explains how a PIN functions in credit and debit card payments and its importance for merchants. What is a PIN?

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Hacked ATMs Lead to 70% Rise in Debit Card Fraud

FICO

The rest took place at bank ATMs or point-of-sale (POS) devices, such as card payment machines at retailers. The average duration of a compromise continued to fall — on average, an ATM or POS device would be compromised for 11 days, compared to 14 days in 2015. Follow me on Twitter @fraudbird.

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Deep Dive: Assessing And Tackling Debit Card Fraud

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Fraudsters have grown adept at finding debit cards’ weak points, and merchants are struggling to keep up. Cybercriminals have more opportunities than ever to swipe debit card numbers and PINs from online consumers, and false websites, large-scale data breaches and skimming tools can compromise account information.

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Deep Dive: Why ML Plays A Key Role In Debit Issuers' Fraud-Fighting Strategies

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Debit card issuers face an ever-growing array of fraud schemes perpetrated against them and their account holders. Effective card offerings require financial institutions (FIs) to quickly and accurately detect myriad forms of fraud, forcing them into a delicate balancing act.

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Driving Corporate Card Innovation With Collaborations, Card Issuing Platforms

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The corporate card can have a home in the digital wallet thanks to collaborations and technology platforms designed for card issuers. Nium’s end-to-end issuing, processing and onboarding services allow Aspire customers to have another choice for completing their payments via Google Pay on card terminals that accept Visa.

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Out of Sight: How Banks Protect Consumers from Credit Card Fraud

FICO

As someone who has worked in fraud detection and mitigation for more than 30 years, I wanted to share some important facts on how banks and card issuers protect their customers from fraudulent transactions: with multiple defenses that are often invisible, and more importantly, often intentionally frictionless. Emphases added.).

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How The Pandemic Makes 90-Day Customer Histories A Fraud-Fighting Weakness

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FIs are also finding that consumers are currently showing less interest in using credit cards, which may reflect a desire to avoid taking on debt while struggling with unemployment an d other financial losses. Consumers are instead using debit, and one financial services company expects U.S. Around the Next-Gen Debit World.