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Smart Card Alliance opens Washington, DC-area training center

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The National Center for Advanced Payments and Identity Security in Crystal City, Virginia, will be a permanent facility for live educational activities hosted by SCA.

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Got A Credit Card In Your Purse? Thank Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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The nation mourns this week as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie in state in Washington, DC starting Wednesday (Sept. Credit cards were rarely issued to women directly: A woman’s card was generally issued as a rider on her husband’s, and it was nearly impossible for women to secure cards and loans without male consignors.

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Smart Card Alliance opens Washington, DC-area training center

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The National Center for Advanced Payments and Identity Security in Crystal City, Virginia, will be a permanent facility for live educational activities hosted by SCA.

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Fighting The Known Unknowns In Digital Identity Fraud

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Any given bank or card issuer has an idea of what their customers’ typical purchase behaviors are like – so if a regular consumer suddenly files a new address halfway across the world and starts buying stereo equipment en masse, red flags will fly.

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The day that digital currency started

Tomorrow's Transactions

So for those of you who don’t remember what all of the fuss was about: Mondex was an electronic purse, a pre-paid payment instrument based on a tamper-resistant chip. This chip could be integrated into all sorts of things, one of them being a smart card for consumers. DC/EP is the Chinese Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).

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Hill Country And The Social Complexity Of Going Cashless

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It’s popular and well-liked in the neighborhood, but if you want to taste the copious amount of BBQ sauce that is always flowing inside, you better have a credit or debit card on you. Cash was actually shaping up to be a security liability for Hill Country, which kept getting robbed. In the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington D.C.,

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The Perfect Credit Score: Understanding the 850 FICO Score

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Typically, most lenders do not require an individual to have the highest credit score possible to secure the best loan features. Payment history accounts for 35% of a FICO® Score and, not surprisingly, we see that those with an 850 basically have no reported history of missed payments, collections or derogatory information. .