Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever felt uneasy when someone on the phone asked for your credit card security code? Your instincts were on target. Just ...

MasterCard Inc.'s Canadian unit has agreed to adopt the code of conduct for Canada's debit and credit card industry that the country's finance minister approved April 16. However, Visa Inc.'s unit ...

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 ...

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 ...

Major credit card companies are moving to make a merchant code available for firearm and ammunition retailers in order to comply with a new California law that will allow banks to potentially track ...

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Fri, January 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM UTC If you’ve ever purchased anything online or over the phone and paid with a credit card, you more likely than not have been asked for your card’s security code.

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.