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Tap to Pay: What It Is and How It Works

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Since the first plastic credit card was issued by American Express in 1959 , payment tech progress has been growing exponentially. EMV chip card technology had a good two decades or so, beginning in the mid-’90s. Most modern card readers and payment terminals are NFC-equipped.

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What’s the Future For Payment Cards?

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What does the future hold for the plastic payment card? Or will cards with cutting-edge technology win more loyalty from shoppers? The payment card has “a long life ahead of it,” he told Karen Webster. Even if you consider technologies like mobile, you can see that the consumer is still paying with payment cards.”.

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Giving Community Banks The Contactless Card Boost

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However, there may be an opportunity to get more contactless cards into the hands of consumers — an opportunity that involves community banks and is backed by financial incentives. million payment cards, Giorgio said. She noted that, ever since EMV chip cards were introduced in the U.S., Australia and Canada.

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MasterCard Expands EMV Self-Certification Program

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The move has been complicated by the combination of most merchants getting a very late start to the EMV process – the Target breach was what many merchants considered their official starting line despite announcements by the card networks years earlier – and a complicated certification process that’s been tough for some merchants to navigate.

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Square Chip Readers Get Speed Boost

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As card swipes turned to chip insertions across the U.S., Recently, to combat long lines and payments fatigue, financial, merchant service and mobile payment company Square rolled out a firmware update to its chip payment terminals. Contactless credit cards and mobile wallet use have seen a slow rate of adoption in the U.S.,

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Cross-Border Payments, Innovation And CEO Insights Top Week’s News

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Coverage includes a story about how bamboo straws signal a new phase in global commerce, a new mobile payment network and Amazon’s latest push into biometrics, among many other topics and original PYMNTS research. Visa: Chip Cards Reduce Counterfeit Fraud By 87 Pct. Chip cards are now accepted at more than 3.7

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Visa’s Merchant-Friendly EMV Moves

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Today, there are 300 million chip cards in circulation and 1.2 It’s also the first to say that there could and should be more places for consumers to use their chip cards. The Big EMV Software Certification Push. Visa is the first to admit that a lot of progress has been made in the U.S.

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