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Innovations, features, new products
- Visa launches Olympic prepaid cards -- In preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic games, Visa launched three new prepaid cards bearing the images of popular sporting events. ... (more)
- Rewards programs are popular, but come with a price -- To the average Canadian, gifts from rewards credit cards appear free, but are they? ... (more)
- Chip credit cards reducing fraud, charge backs -- New findings show that the new chip card migration in Canada increases security and fraud detection, thus preventing charge backs. ... (more)
- Alternative payment system Ukash to debut in Canada -- Ukash has taken the opportunity to offer simple, anonymous and safe online cash payments to the 70 million unbanked consumers in North America. ... (more)
- New cell phone technology prevents credit card fraud -- A new technology uses cell phones and PDAs to protect consumers from fraudulent credit and debit card charges. ... (more)
- Are prepaid cards a good way to avoid debt? -- An alternate source to pay with plastic, prepaid cards, if used wisely, can help you avoid racking up a balance. ... (more)
- Subway's Canada stores to try Visa's contactless payment -- Subway chain restaurants, the latest vendor to agree to experiment with VISA contactless payment, has expressed some concern over the effectiveness and popularity of the issuer's latest technology. ... (more)
- The origins of the credit card -- Do you know where your credit card comes from -- beyond the return address on the envelope from your card issuer? The approximately 2 billion credit cards in use today across the globe have an interesting history. ... (more)

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