The Paypers

AUGUST 15, 2017

(The Paypers) The 2017 Debit Issuer Study commission by PULSE has shown a decrease in debit fraud loss after US financial institutions increase issuance of chip debit cards in 2016.

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Payments Source

JANUARY 31, 2017

The EMV migration includes support for chip cards and NFC contactless payments, giving banks room to compete in the contactless payments market just in time for wearables to take off.

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Payments Source

AUGUST 9, 2016

Card manufacturer Oberthur Technologies is offering issuers facing a shortage of EMV chip cards an option to receive as many as 25,000 in five days, rather than waiting the standard three to four weeks.

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Payments Source

DECEMBER 26, 2016

payment card market prompted many issuers to keep things simple by sticking with contact-only chip cards when they finally moved to support EMV, but now certain issuers are taking a new tack by adding Near Field Communication technology to their chip-enabled cards. The large scale of the U.S.

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Payments Source

APRIL 21, 2016

Issuers still have a choice of whether to require PIN authentication for EMV-chip cards, but David Nelms, chairman and CEO of Discover Financial Services, says the chip-and-PIN path increasingly makes the most sense for U.S. payment cards going forward.

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The Payments Association

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Traditional card issuers and networks must adapt or risk obsolescence. Technological disruption and innovation The rapid pace of technological change is both a challenge and an opportunity for the card payment industry.

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FICO

APRIL 3, 2018

While adoption of the EMV payment standard in the US (as embodied in chip cards and panic at the checkout ) has been slow, fraudsters’ gravitation to card not present (CNP) fraud has been anything but. Two and a half years after the liability shift from issuers to merchants (i.e.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2016

Earlier today Visa announced a handful of new moves aimed at pushing EMV chip adoption among merchants. We’ve taken steps to simplify the process as much as possible and help reduce any challenges so merchants can move forward with chip adoption quickly.”. After that point, the issuer picks up liability.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

don’t rely on swiping or chip card readers. cards use chip-and-signature and chip-and-PIN methods. Card issuers have been slow to release contactless cards due to limited acceptance at the point of sale. JPMorgan Chase will roll out new Visa-branded contactless EMV cards this year.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

Today, there are 300 million chip cards in circulation and 1.2 It’s also the first to say that there could and should be more places for consumers to use their chip cards. payments landscape, Visa will also limit the number of transactions issuers can chargeback to merchants (and their acquirers) until April 2018.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2016

. “We announced the liability shift four-plus years in advance of the date in August 2011, knowing that much of the rest of the world had already invested in chip technology and that there were quite a few suppliers that had chip technology in their terminals and also chip capable card technology available,” she said.”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2016

Amex will also limit the number of counterfeit fraud chargebacks to a total of 10 per card account. Under these new policies, the card issuer, instead of the merchant, will cover the liability for the additional counterfeit fraud transaction disputed from a card account after those 10 chargebacks.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Part of that deployment reluctance on the part of the merchant, said Gumbley, can be traced to the vagaries of the consumer experience, where transaction times using chip cards can last anywhere from a few seconds to “multiple 30-second increments,” a range that can be disconcerting and confusing. And they need to, Gumbley said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

s struggles toward universal adoption in the European Union is reminiscent of EMV chip cards’ rise — a similar journey that aimed to solve a different fraud problem. When the card networks first started mandating EMV, McCutcheon said, there was heavy resistance. Why 3DS 2.0 Is (And Isn’t) Like Putting EMV Into Place .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

don’t rely on swiping or chip card readers. cards use chip-and-signature and chip-and-PIN methods. Card issuers have been slow to release contactless cards due to limited acceptance at the point-of-sale. According to payment gateway NMI, just 3 percent of payments in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s not as prevalent in the United States, however, as many card issuers don’t give customers the contactless option. Nicola Masters, director of The Grand Appeal, said that because contactless transactions overtook chip and PIN payments in the U.K., that we have seen in the rest of the world,” Sanford said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2016

consumer credit cards are now enabled with chips, marking an 88 percent increase in chip card adoption since the Oct. million chip-active merchant locations, which make up approximately 30 percent of the total merchant population in the U.S. Today, Mastercard announced that 80 percent of its U.S.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 21, 2015

Last week I received new credit cards from US Bank and Capital One, both containing microchips to support EMV terminals, the global standard finally rolling out in the United States over the next few years. Given the world’s obsession with tech, it’s a good time for issuers to toot their own horns a bit.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

don’t rely on swiping or chip card readers. cards use chip-and-signature and chip-and-PIN methods. Card issuers have been slow to release contactless cards due to limited acceptance at the point-of-sale. According to payment gateway NMI, just 3 percent of payments in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

Just as payment methods are varied, so too are the ways that people pay, and whether, given a certain locale, they prefer paper (cash) over plastic (via mag stripe or chip card), or mobile over interactions with the cashier — these differences color fraud as well. Fraud varies country to country, region to region.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

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. The heightened risk to merchants and issuers is being keenly felt – someone pays when cybercrooks succeed, and it’s often the retailer. It’s not all good news.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

There’s also the safety of using debit in contactless payments, he said, where issuers had, fortuitously from a timing perspective, accelerated their issuance of contactless cards coming into 2020 and before the age of COVID-19. Use of debit in eCommerce has accelerated during the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

As chip-card adoption and online sales increase, fraudsters are looking to the internet for prey, which means that card-not-present (CNP) fraud will continue to rise,” said ICBA Bancard President and CEO Tina Giorgio in the press release.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Modern POS systems often come with built-in card readers capable of accepting various payment methods, including EMV chip cards, magnetic stripe cards, and contactless payments (NFC). EMV-compliant terminals are essential to process chip card transactions securely, reducing the risk of fraudulent activities.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

And chip cards keep eating away at counterfeit fraud — news that might be somewhat more joy-inducing were it not also the case that data breaches hit their all-time high in 2016 as well. Counterfeit fraud has dropped by 52 percent at merchants that are using chip-enabled cards. increased 92 percent to 408.1

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2016

is soaring the global demand for smart payment cards by as much as 34 percent, a new Smart Payment Association (SPA) report has found. billion chip cards were supplied — of which, 570 million were shipped to the U.S., The shift to EMV in the U.S. Last year alone, over 2.06 marking a twofold increase over 2014.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Since the first plastic credit card was issued by American Express in 1959 , payment tech progress has been growing exponentially. EMV chip card technology had a good two decades or so, beginning in the mid-’90s. It’s universally compatible Unlike the chip card and magnetic stripe, NFC technology is standardized.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Despite the growing usage of EMV chip card technology to help safeguard payment card data at the point of sale (POS), cybercriminals are turning to devices called “shimmers” to read card numbers and possibly access a card’s chip and obtain the PIN.

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EBizCharge

AUGUST 30, 2024

Breakdown of credit card processing fees Credit card processing fees are charged to merchants for each credit card transaction processed. For instance, integrating a payment gateway that optimizes interchange fees or software that automatically updates credit card information can lower costs. online or over the phone).

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Stax

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The first key component is the transaction fee, which is the base cost merchants must pay for each credit card transaction. The interchange fee is another component, set by card issuers. These transactions are usually made with physical credit or debit cards that are swiped or inserted into chip card readers.

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FICO

MARCH 29, 2017

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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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2017

The malware lifted data from magnetic stripes on payment cards, in some cases possibly including name, number and expiration date. All Buckle stores had chip technology installed at the point of sale during the time of the incidents, limiting exposure for customers paying that way. There is no evidence that online guests were affected.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

To learn more about that opportunity, and that value, and what it all means specifically for issuers, PYMNTS recently caught up with Danny Rogers, CEO of Terbium Labs , a dark web data intelligence company. In short, financial institutions that set up what amounts to an early warning system for Dark Web activity can find value in that.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2016

14 date for having all issuers provide consumers with Purchase Alerts on all on and offline Visa transactions processed through VisaNet (GPR and commercial cards are excepted). To make transaction alerts accessible and useful for everyone, we encourage issuers to enable as many communication channels as possible.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 8, 2015

TSYS launches its Chip Card on Demand to help issuers make the transition through the October chip liability shift. Indianapolis Business Journal looks at the rise of rob-advisors Betterment , Wealthfront , Hedgeable , and Motif Investing.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2018

Credit and debit cards don’t come in different shapes or sizes — and even in the era of EMV, they still have mag stripes to make them useful at merchants that don’t yet accept chip cards. That’s not the case in the digital world. There isn’t a standard today for how consumers and merchants transact when shopping online.

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