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You Haven’t Been Yourself Lately: Digital Identity Trends 2020

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The launch of EMV chip cards in the U.S. Despite their success, the use of EMV cards with no required PIN codes has left a door unlocked for crooks. Despite their success, the use of EMV cards with no required PIN codes has left a door unlocked for crooks. The trade group wants unified card security standards in the U.S.,

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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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Visa’s Take On The EMV Chargeback Debate

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The merchant-card network relationship can be complicated. To help us get a better understanding of one card network’s point of view on this claim, as well as EMV’s evolution seven months in, Karen Webster recently spoke with Stephanie Ericksen, VP of Global Risk Products at Visa. . Pre-Breach Vs. Post-Breach Attitude Shift.

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Why Americans Are Slower To Adopt Mobile Payments

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Some say it has to do with the EMV (chip card) implementation; others say it has to do with consumers’ insecurity about security issues. On top of that, there is the trust issue for the consumer every time a new security breach pops up. Consumer trust is a challenge to adoption as well.

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Hard Knocks Edition: MCX, EMV And Square

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MCX coalition members hoped that the scheme would be attractive enough to consumers that many of them would shift away from what they were using in the store — branded plastic cards — to its mobile payments scheme. Back stateside, it was another blockbuster week and just in time for the summer blockbuster season. Need to know more?

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Bitcoin Busts, Payments Get Faster And The Eyes Have It

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Consumers always have their debit card handy and and can provide that number to a sender – knowing that if something goes wrong they are protected. This week was the first week of the last full month of summer. Or a Fizzle – because it’s the last full month of summer and everyone is complaining about it being the last month of summer.

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Home Depot Sues MasterCard, Visa Over Chip Card Security

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Atlanta-based Home Depot says new payment cards with “chip” technology remain less secure in the U.S. than cards used in Europe and elsewhere in the world. Even with chips, U.S. Home Depot’s 2014 data breach at stores in the U.S. Home Depot’s 2014 data breach at stores in the U.S.