ARTICLES AND AWARDS


Paying by Virtual Numbers

Friday, December 15, 2000

By Nick Sawyer and Brendan Murray, Lafferty, Electronic Payment International
Virtual card solutions are the flavour of the month in North America as a growing number of major issuers adopt pseudo numbers to appease consumer fears in the run-up to Christmas. More


New Approach to One-Time-Use Numbers

Monday, November 13, 2000

By David Breitkof, American Banker
As momentum has gathered behind "disposable" credit card numbers — account numbers that are used for a single transaction, then retired so that fraudsters cannot reuse them — a company called Privasys has stepped forward to present its unusual approach to this type of product. More