And their chiefs want to work with the National Crime Agency to take down the major gangs who are the global market-makers in crime - the gangs organising the theft of flash cars from our cities or the mass electronic harvesting of credit card numbers.

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Credit card companies are working with CyberCash and Netscape Communications to develop and implement the new Secure Electronic Transaction protocol for online credit card commerce.

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The Montreal company is a payments and services company in North America and the United Kingdom, providing technology and services for businesses to accept credit card, electronic check and direct debit payments.

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The world's top credit card company wants to rule all electronic payments--once it overhauls its computers.

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The euro was introduced at the start of this year for non-cash transactions only (such as electronic-funds transfers, and payments by cheque or credit card).

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Even before the housing and credit bubbles burst, the past several decades saw a number of tectonic shifts that affected retail banking, such as the explosion of credit-card use, the creation of electronic banking, and the decline of paper checks.

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Discover Financial Services is a leading credit card issuer in the United States and an electronic payment services company.

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Many law and security firms have created electronic specialities to deal with the potential loss of everything from highly protected trade secrets, to credit card theft.

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We, or rather the electronic devices we employ, are data pack rats, accumulating e-mails, Web pages, credit card swipes, phone messages, stock trades, memos, address books and radiology scans.

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