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Visa: EMV Rollout Continues; Counterfeit Fraud Down 76 Pct.

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Visa said this week that as acceptance of EMV cards has gained traction in the U.S., Total counterfeit fraud dollars decreased by 49 percent, the payments giant said. EMV” is shorthand for Europay, Mastercard and Visa chip cards. businesses began migrating to EMV, when 392,000 merchants had such acceptance in place.

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EMV Chip Cards: What You Need to Know About PIN or Signature Cards and How They Work

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EMV (Europay, Mastercard, and Visa) chip card use has continued to expand in use since its tumultuous rollout in 2015. The EMV standard has now become a global standard for cards equipped with computer chips and the technology used to authenticate chip-card transactions. The chip does not affect the price of processing payments.

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Payments Security, With A Dash Of Humor

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Payments security is usually not a wellspring for belly laughs. But Vantiv Integrated Payments, which offers payments technology to small and mid-sized businesses, has been moving forward with its campaign to stir business owners to action, with sobering stats and a little humor.

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How Payments Security Drives Digital Transformation

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That’s the backdrop for the nearly hour-long conversation that Karen Webster had about the role of payments security in digital business transformation with CA Technologies Director of Payments Security James Jenkins. Payments Security As A Digital Business Enabler. The Pace Of Business Transformation.

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Payments 2016: The Year Of The Chip

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Here is the response from Steven Cole, Senior Product Manager, EMV, Vantiv … Payments 2016: The Year Of The Chip. The year 2016 saw a sea change in the payments landscape. This led those merchants to significantly accelerate their EMV implementation programs. Download the eBook.

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European Fraud Trends Point to Online Payments Risk

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The following is a guest post from Kendrick Sands, Senior Analyst - Consumer Finance at Euromonitor , on the trends shown for European card fraud in 2015. As a share of total card payments for the researched markets in Europe, total value lost to fraud declined from.08%

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Verizon: PCI DSS Compliance Down For First Time In Six Years

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percent seen in 2015. One factor that comes into play when viewing the relatively lower rates of PCI compliance in the Americas is the fact that in the later region, EMV chip card payments are a relatively recent phenomenon. The headline numbers: 52.5 That latest tally is down from 55.4 percent in the Americas.

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