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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. What Types of EMV Chip Cards Are There?

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Payments 2016: The Year Of The Chip

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We posed the same question to each executive: If you had to answer the question, Payments was the year of …, how would you answer, and how does your answer change your world — and the world of payments,more broadly? Here is the response from Steven Cole, Senior Product Manager, EMV, Vantiv … Payments 2016: The Year Of The Chip.

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SUNRATE Offers Apple Pay Functionality for Credit Card Customers

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SUNRATE , a Singapore-based payment and treasury management platform, is bringing Apple Pay to its customers, offering a safer, more secure and private way to pay, and using the iPhone’s power to protect each transaction. Now, SUNRATE customers can use an iPhone or Apple Watch at payment terminals to make contactless payments.

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Visa Signs Off On Optional Signatures For EMV Merchants In North America

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12) in a blog post that it is making the signature an option — and no longer a requirement — for EMV chip-enabled merchants across North America. That shift, for contact or contactless payments, goes into effect April 2018. Those investments and focus, the company said, will help “define the future of payments security.”.

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Mastercard Will No Longer Require Signatures On Cards, Receipts

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Mastercard, the payments company, announced on Thursday (Oct. In a press release , Mastercard said it is making the changes due to advancements in technology and security. The payments company said the innovations provide greater security and a simpler, more convenient payment experience.

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Apple NFC Center Of Debate For UK Brexit Digital ID Proposal

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The process involves filling out a short form, taking a selfie and scanning the chip inside their passport using their phone’s NFC reader.”. The problem is Apple does not give developers full access to the NFC chip inside iPhones,” according to that report on Friday. For a couple years, that was all the NFC chip could do.”.

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Could The Coronavirus Crisis Solve Digital IDs’ ‘Chicken and Egg’ Problem?

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Thus far, said Pointner, despite regulations stating that the European countries making up the EU must have interoperability between each other (through the Electronic Identification, Authentication and Trust Services, or eIDAS), “it’s clunky and it’s difficult,” with friction especially becoming apparent as people and use cases cross borders.