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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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Contactless Payments: Touch to Pay? Here’s What It Is

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It’s easy to implement contactless payments if you are working with a payment provider who offers the service. Touch to pay (also called tap to pay or touchpay) payment services allow you to make a payment simply by tapping your card, wearable device, or smartphone on a contactless payment terminal.

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Chip Card Shipments Top 2.3 Billion In 2017

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Generating year-on-year growth of nearly 4 percent, Smart Payment Association (SPA) data indicates that 2.3 billion payment chip cards were shipped worldwide in 2017. In terms of geographies, India saw “sustained growth” in card shipments as a transition to EMV takes place.

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Visa Signs Off On Optional Signatures For EMV Merchants In North America

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12) in a blog post that it is making the signature an option — and no longer a requirement — for EMV chip-enabled merchants across North America. That shift, for contact or contactless payments, goes into effect April 2018. No more signatures. Visa said today (Jan. million U.S. locations, according to the post.

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One Year In, Removing The Masking Tape From EMV

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As the payments industry nears the one-year anniversary of the United States’ transition to EMV, of course, it’s an opportune time to take stock of progress and what remains to be done. market that have created “a lot of issues for EMV deployment.“. It’s a mixed experience for the consumer, however.”.

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Issuers have a path to beat Apple Pay

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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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Chargebacks Have Merchants Scared Straight (To EMV)

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The EMV liability shift just hit the six-month mark , the force of mobile continues to strengthen, and industry players are shape-shifting their business models all while authenticating consumers just keeps getting more complex – and that’s the tip of the iceberg. Merchants have a lot going on these days. “I think that before Oct.

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