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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.

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How are Interchange Fees Calculated?

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Transactions at points-of-sale where a customer physically swipes or inserts their card have lower interchange fees. Security technology Additional security measures like EMV chip cards and contactless payments can both influence interchange fees. For example, a card issuer might charge 1.5% per transaction.

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

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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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Why Would Anyone Delay Chip Card Adoption?

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As the payments industry progresses through the first stage (POS terminals) of the EMV liability shift and gets closer to the second stage (ATMs), a lingering question that can be asked is, why would any card issuer not want to get certified for EMV?

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EMVCo Releases EMV Secure Remote Commerce Specifications Draft

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To open its EMV® Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) specification for public comment for a 45-day period, secure payments enabler EMVCo has issued a draft version of the specification called version 0.9. The news comes a few months after EMVCo announced the launch of the full EMV 3-D Secure (EMV 3DS) test platform in August.

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There Are 6.1 Billion EMV Cards In Circulation

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billion EMV cards in circulation worldwide as of the end of 2016. billion cards over the last 12 months. percent of all card-present transactions globally were handled with EMV tech — a 35.8 Therefore, the higher the adoption of EMV technology worldwide, the more robust the entire infrastructure becomes.

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EMV 3DS: Why 2020 Is Different

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But if the man called his card issuer and pretended the order was never his and that his card had been misused fraudulently, he wouldn’t owe the fee. And as 3DS adoption moves forward, the system has the potential for changing the security dynamic and understanding of card present versus card not present transactions.

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