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MARCH 14, 2024

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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NOVEMBER 23, 2016

22) that it is working to modify its debit routing policies, saying that it has “modified and clarified” its rules to boost EMV chip card adoption in the United States. Those modifications, the card giant said, come on the heels of guidance that has been issued by the Federal Reserve. Visa said Tuesday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2017

24) they had formed a new partnership to expand the acceptance of the UnionPay card in the U.S. to pay with their UnionPay chip, credit and debit cards at First Data merchant clients. Commerce-enabling technology provider First Data and international bankcard company UnionPay International announced Tuesday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2016

Last month, Last month, Walmart filed a lawsuit in New York alleging that Visa prohibits Walmart from insisting that its customers use a PIN when paying with a chip-enabled debit card at checkout. Visa] has demanded that we allow fraud-prone signature verification for debit transactions in our U.S.

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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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MAY 16, 2016

About a year ago, Walmart SVP and Assistant Treasurer Mike Cook referred to then-forthcoming EMV rules as “a joke,” noting that the signatures required at the end of the transaction essentially invalidated any potential security advance offered by the chip card. Signature transactions, on average, cost $0.05

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

antitrust regulators are investigating Visa and Mastercard about their debit card policies, Bloomberg reported on Thursday (Nov. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is talking to large merchants to discover if some retailers are being blocked from routing digital payments over alternative debit networks, sources told Bloomberg.

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