The Cleveland Plain Dealer noted in a recent article that consumers using their credit cards in Europe may need their four digit pin number in order to complete the transaction.  And because of the different standards between the United States and Europe, it is possible that the use of a pin will cause the transaction [...]

Just the other day I wrote that I thought that credit card pins would not catch on in the United States. Today, I found an article about a company that is betting that fingerprint scanning technology embedded in credit cards will replace signatures and pins. Smartmetric predicts that fingerprint credit cards will protect [...]

Australia is implementing a system where credit card users may input a pin rather than sign their name, according to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald. With the current trend in the United States to do away with credit card signatures completely (at least for low dollar items) - I can’t see this [...]