Implementing Electronic Card Payment Systems

Radu, an electrical engineer who works as a consultant for payment systems and telecom operations in Belgium, has written a thorough description of EMV chip card technology. Following a description of chip migration with EMV and its use for debit and credit cards, Radu details the processing of such cards, including remote card payments, with attention to various formats. A lengthy section of appendices details the technology's security framework, threats, services, mechanisms, and risk management. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

As magnetic stripe cards are being replaced by chip cards that offer consumers and business greater protection against fraud, a new standard for this technology is being introduced by Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV). This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the EMV chip solution and explains how this technology provides a chip migration path, where interoperability plays a central role in the business model. The work offers an understanding of the security problems associated with magnetic stripe cards, and presents the business case for chip migration. Moreover, it explains the implementation of multi-application selection mechanisms in EMV chip cards and terminals, and shows you how to design a multi-application EMV chip card layout.

The volume of payments handled electronically has increased dramatically in recent years, as have liquidity, volatility and the amount of money flows across borders. This important global trend works together with a growing integration in corporate business processes, and a convergence in network architecture as e-payment of all kinds moves to Internet protocol systems. The net result is a new e-payment landscape that presents daunting challenges on many levels, as well as exciting opportunities, for banks, businesses and governments. Consumer and citizen interests are also at stake. This book takes a unique, wholly integrated look at the e-payment landscape, understanding the way that existing systems are being stretched and challenged. Credit card systems are extended to facilitate Internet-based eCommerce. Consumers are becoming accustomed to using their stored-value mass transit cards to make payments for goods and services. Corporations put pressure on banks to integrate business information into their electronic payment processes. New non-financial players emerge holding important floats and many of these players are challenging for key parts of the banking franchise. This bo

World Bank Technical Paper No. 260. An efficient payment system is a necessary precondition for business development. This study outlines the basic operating principles of a payment system and reviews its benefits, costs, risks, and problems. It examines in detail the systems currently in place in the developed economies of Europe and the United States and draws from the analyses to support recommendations for restructuring those systems in developing countries. The study reviews the various types of payment practices that exist in mature systems including cash, check, GIRO, debit and credit card, direct debit, and large-value wire transfers. A range of short- and long-term improvements in payment systems are recommended for developing countries. There is a special focus on the Russian payment system and the problems it faces in transition from a centrally planned to an market economy.

Electronic Value Exchange examines in detail the transformation of the VISA electronic payment system from a collection of non-integrated, localized, paper-based bank credit card programs into the cooperative, global, electronic value exchange network it is today. Topics and features: provides a history of the VISA system from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s; presents a historical narrative based on research gathered from personal documents and interviews with key actors; investigates, for the first time, both the technological and social infrastructures necessary for the VISA system to operate; supplies a detailed case study, highlighting the mutual shaping of technology and social relations, and the influence that earlier information processing practices have on the way firms adopt computers and telecommunications; examines how “gateways” in transactional networks can reinforce or undermine established social boundaries, and reviews the establishment of trust in new payment devices.

This book explains how Electronic Payment Systems (EPS) can help retail banks and other financial and retail institutions win new customers and keep them. It argues that the prime motivation for deploying EPS should not be to make the organization's job easier, or to reduce the volume of paperwork, but to make the retail institution's products and services more attractive to customers, and to construct systems through which these more attractive products and services can be delivered. It is only by making the attraction of new customers the primary aim that effective and workable systems can be designed and deployed. Chapter one covers the development of Electronic Payment Systems. Chapters two to five are devoted to Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale (EFTPoS), telephone banking and smart cards, respectively. In each case the chapter concludes with summary guidelines for winning customers. Chapter six provides detailed instructions on how to bring an electronic payment system to the market. The reader is guided through the preparatory planning stage, establishing a strategy, defining the system's requirements, gathering the tools of implementation, launching the service and monitoring its effectiveness. There is also a handy checklist of questions to address. Chapter seven is a survey of the extent of implementation of each of the major types of electronic payment systems in the United Kingdom, United States and continental Europe. Chapter eight explains the principal consumer advantages of using electronic payment systems, suggests ways of overcoming the traditional institutional barriers to accepting the primacy of the customer, and lists the most commonly voiced complaints from the general public about EPS. The final chapter identifies five major trends in the area which will help the reader plan to meet the demands of the future. With his practical down-to-earth approach, and his succinct and engaging style, James Essinger has ensured that this book will be essential reading for anyone needing to understand the strategic marketing implications of electronic payment systems.