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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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Too many missteps undermine the EMV migration

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While card issuers took a step in the right direction by replacing the fraud-prone magnetic stripe cards of the past, they made many missteps that complicated and weakened the EMV transition.

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EMVCo Releases EMV Secure Remote Commerce Specifications Draft

PYMNTS

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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WaveCrest adds EMV for prepaid debit cards

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Certain prepaid debit card issuers who didn’t initially adopt EMV technology — because of a lower perceived security threat for these limited-use cards — are now going the EMV route.

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EMVCo publishes EMV 3-D Secure UI/UX guidelines

The Paypers

US-based technical body EMVCo has published EMV 3-D Secure UI/UX Design Guidelines to help card issuers, banks, merchants and solution providers optimise the EMV 3DS payment authentication experience for ecommerce consumers.

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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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Retailers still face EMV issues

Payments Dive

Recognizing merchants have encountered difficulty integrating EMV compliant payment equipment, credit card issuers have postponed chargebacks for fraudulent purchases on non-compliant equipment. Compliance, however, will benefit all parties by reducing credit card fraud.

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