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The SmartCard Test Laboratory of CETECOM ICT Services GmbH has reached another important accreditation. EMVCo approved CETECOM’s competence and capability in the performance of approval testing for contactless credit cards according to the EMVCo PICC L1 Approval requirements. With this, CETECOM further enhances its already very broad service portfolio. In the same course, this means [...]

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Experian, the global information services company, today announced the launch of a new version of Hunter, its industry-leading data-sharing fraud prevention system, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of anti-fraud operations. The upgrade – available from the end of February 2012 – enhances Hunter’s anti-fraud investigation and collaboration capabilities with more than 30 new and enhanced [...]

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Mako Networks, a cloud-based network management company, and Phoenix Managed Networks, a payment network services provider, have today announced an international agreement to provide a new solution called PaySecure to simplify payment security and compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS).   Under the terms of the multimillion dollar agreement, Mako [...]

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Banks can now increase efficiency while improving investigations and SAR quality, brandishing the latest version of SAS Anti-Money Laundering to better manage suspicious financial activity. Enhancements from the leader in business analytics software and services include predictive analytics, an enriched regulatory reporting console, and additional risk-based scoring techniques. "Enhancing the quality of alerts by applying predictive analytics is [...]

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MULTOS technology providers saw a record breaking 2011 with over 100 million chips being delivered to customers in just one year, bringing the current MULTOS issuance total to well in excess of 300 million cards, reports MAOSCO Ltd., the Secretariat of The MULTOS Consortium. MULTOS products are deployed in markets that require the security, flexibility, [...]

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