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Commonwealth Bank of Australia has followed National Australia Bank (NAB) in rolling out contactless payment terminals to select locations.
Queensland Transport (QT) has selected three core technology suppliers for the state's chip-embedded drivers' licences, which will use public key infrastructure (PKI) to encrypt drivers' biometric information.
Sydney police have charged two men over what is alleged to be a multi-million dollar credit card fraud racket involving online auction giant eBay.
Credit card users will be given the option of entering a PIN as an alternative to signing their name to authenticate a transaction under a banking industry initiative scheduled to start today.
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Australian MasterCard executives are awaiting the results of a joint trial with Nokia in the United States of new technologies that allow individuals to use their mobile phones as credit cards before implementing any local program.
Nokia and MasterCard launch a US trial of a new breed of mobile phone technology that lets people use their Nokia phones as credit cards.
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