The major payment card players were out in force at the Cartes annual trade show, showing off their latest password generators for conducting online transactions, most thin enough to fit in a wallet. Cartes, the annual cards trade show in Paris, can always be relied on to train a spotlight on some interesting industry developments - and this year was no exception. While many firms were keen to promote their involvement in yet more contactless payment pilots - that did not always appear particularly different from some of those announced 12 months ago - the developments that caught the attention were in the slightly less sexy area of online banking and payments, where fraud migration and consumer concerns about making payments in the digital world remain a challenge.
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