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

Stax

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.

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How a PIN Works on Credit Cards and Debit Cards

Clearly Payments

As a merchant, understanding how a PIN (Personal Identification Number) works with credit and debit card transactions is essential for running a secure and efficient payment process. This guide explains how a PIN functions in credit and debit card payments and its importance for merchants. What is a PIN?

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FV Bank Announces Launch of VISA Debit and Corporate Expense Cards

Fintech Finance

FV Bank, in partnership with Visa, has today announced at Money20/20 Las Vegas (October 27-30), the launch of FV Bank’s new debit cards and corporate expense cards. Businesses can order cards for authorized users, set individual spending limits, and track transactions in real-time through FV Bank’s platform.

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Demystifying Credit Card Interchange Fees: What You Need to Know [2024 Rates and Updates]

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Set rate processing Subscription rate processing TL;DR Interchange fees are not collected by your payment processor or bank; they go directly to the card-issuing banks. Interchange fees vary significantly depending on the card issuer, the issuing bank, type of transaction and/or merchant type.

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Hacked ATMs Lead to 70% Rise in Debit Card Fraud

FICO

That means we’ll continue to see compromises - and card fraud - rise. As ATMs aren’t yet required to be chip-card enabled, the EMV adoption that came into force last year isn’t driving fraud down yet. If your plastic card is captured inside of an ATM, call your card issuer immediately to report it.

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EMV's Prepaid Problem: Issuers Aren't Interested in the Security

Payments Source

New Orleans--As credit and debit card issuers start to see the benefits of EMV-chip card security, prepaid would seem to be the logical next step. But prepaid issuers remain unconvinced of the security benefits of EMV.

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Deep Dive: Assessing And Tackling Debit Card Fraud

PYMNTS

Fraudsters have grown adept at finding debit cards’ weak points, and merchants are struggling to keep up. Losses due to false credit and debit card declines — in which merchants reject legitimate orders on the mistaken belief that they are fraudulent — grew to $118 billion last year and are projected to reach $443 billion by 2021.