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The Rise of Contactless Payments and Tap on Phone

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Tap on phone (or tap to phone as Visa calls it and tap to mobile for Amex and Discover) is a contactless payment method where customers tap a sellers smartphone instead of a credit card machine to pay. In this article, well go over contactless payments and specifically tap on phone. What are contactless payments?

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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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Everything You Need to Know About Credit Card Processing

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EMV Smart Terminal Physical credit card processing terminals are great for businesses with brick-and-mortar locations to take in-person payments in-store. If your customers are physically coming to you and swiping (or dipping) their cards, this is the solution for you.

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How are Interchange Fees Calculated?

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To improve the payment experience for consumers, card networks must innovate and incorporate the latest technologies. Think AI-powered anti-fraud measures and contactless payments such advancements are funded by interchange fees. One way to do this is to encourage card-present transactions.

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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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The Straight Scoop On EMV: One Year Later

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EMV: The three little letters that represent the single most hotly debated and discussed topic in the U.S. payments and commerce ecosystem for nearly the entirety of the last two years. Not that EMV would have cured the reason for that breach, but let’s not get bogged down with details at the start of our story.

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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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