Code offers "significant" new tool for identifying shooters, one advocate said. A gunman in Aurora, Colorado, who killed 12 people in a mass shooting at a movie theater, in 2012, legally acquired ...

The technology to provide a changing CVV code on the back of a plastic payment card for safer use online has been available for years, but the ability of a processor's server in the U.S. to ...

Once a card is purchased, a criminal can drain the gift card before you get to use it. To steer clear of tampered cards, ...

Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images Gun control advocates are cheering a new change in the credit card industry that they say could help prevent gun violence. This week, credit card companies ...

Visa, the world’s largest payment processor, joins Mastercard and American Express, which also said they plan to move forward with categorizing gun shop sales. Richard Drew - AP Payment processor Visa ...

US credit card giants said they will implement a new merchant category code for the nation’s gun retailers, which gun control activists say will help flag potential mass shooters and gun traffickers.

Visa and Mastercard have decided to pause implementing a plan that activists had hoped would track firearm sales and help curb gun violence. The payment giants said they would suspend their work on ...

Two dozen Republican attorneys general warned Visa, American Express and MasterCard on Tuesday not to go ahead with their plans to add a new merchant category code for gun retailers. In a letter to ...

Republican attorneys general of 24 states are warning Visa Inc.,V-1.62%decrease; red down pointing triangle Mastercard Inc. MA-2.01%decrease; red down pointing triangle and American Express Co.

Payment processor Visa Inc. said Saturday that it plans to start separately categorizing sales at gun shops, a major win for gun control advocates who say it will help better track suspicious surges ...

Visa (NYSE:V) and Mastercard (NYSE:MA) are pausing a plan to track firearm sales with a new merchant category code (MCC) as a number of bills advancing in several states related to the use of the new ...