Month: January 2023

What is PCI PIN?

In this new article in the What is it? series, a brief introduction will be made to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) PIN Security (PCI PIN) standard, focused on the protection of the personal identification number (PIN) in face-to-face transactions. Introduction The standard...

/ January 25, 2023

Important dates

Important dates: October 1, 2023: The Visa PIN program has been withdrawn. January 1, 2024: Change the process of loading keys by components in PCI PIN March 31, 2024: The PCI DSS v3.2.1 standard will be withdrawn and the version...

/ January 24, 2023

Brief history of payment cards

The use of debit and credit cards are part of our daily financial life. According to the Bank of Spain, there are currently approximately 85 million payment cards (plastics) in circulation in Spain, more than 60,000 ATMs...

/ January 19, 2023