Simson Garfinkel writes in The Nation about the privacy aspects of RFID.   » Continue Reading

Bank Systems and Technology has a brief article by Aaron McPherson of Financial Insights on the evolution of mobile payments.

First Data Corp. has made available online its Q4 Investor Presentation (37.5 MB PowerPoint file).

The Taipei Times reports on MasterCard's presentation of PayPass to banks in Taiwan.   » Continue Reading

Enhyper has announced the Payments Systems and Security Conference to be held in London June 18-19, 2004.

Don Oldenburg reports in the Washington Post on a recent phishing scam that used spoofed email from the FDIC as bait.   » Continue Reading

Chicago's NBC5 takes a look at payroll cards.

CNN Money reports on contactless cards including MasterCard's PayPass and American Express' Express Pay.

Jennifer Bayot reports in the New York Times on false ID's made at Motor Vehicle offices.   » Continue Reading

First Data Corp. this morning announced fourth quarter financial results -- reporting a 20 percent growth in earnings per share on an 11 percent growth in revenue. FDC also provided a 2004 outlook for an EPS range of between $2.00 to $2.18 from continuing operations as compared to 2003 EPS of $1.88.