Heidi Hansen, a U.S. Bank customer for nearly 10 years, had never seen anything like it. Her October bank statement contained a long string of unexpected 25 cent charges. Next to each was this ...

Best Buy, Wal-Mart and Radio Shack, fierce competitors in the sale of electronic merchandise, each deploys payment terminals that prompt customers to tap in a PIN when paying with a debit card. Their ...

Scams on the Internet are big business. Consumers reportedly lose more than $10 billion annually to them, and every year ...

In November 2018, a bit of "helpful advice" circulated via social media promoting the claim that consumers could stymie the theft of money from their debit cards via card readers through the use of a ...

This article appears in the Feb. 5, 2009, edition of ISO&Agent Weekly. Merchant efforts to steer shoppers to use personal identification numbers instead of signatures when paying with debit cards may ...

Will PIN debit for online transactions ever take off? Some backers are hopeful for this year, but others argue the Durbin Amendment and alternative technologies—like mobile payments—could make PIN ...

Consumers can now use Visa debit cards for smaller purchases without entering a personal identification number, the same way they can skip signing receipts. Visa said last week that it would no longer ...

If you run your debit card as credit, it will likely delay the money being taken from your checking account by a few days. Choosing credit instead of entering your debit card's PIN can help minimize ...

A debit card is a payment card that lets you pay for purchases or withdraw money directly from your checking account in your bank, credit union or other financial institution. It is often also ...

PIN debit transactions are growing significantly faster than signature debit payments. Checks processed electronically are approaching half of all checks paid. And transactions on the automated ...