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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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PULSE Network: Pandemic Creates Tailwinds For Debit Card Spending

PYMNTS

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’ Data Dive: Strange Bedfellows Edition — Card Networks, EMV And Retail

PYMNTS

For example, over 70 percent of Walmart’s chip-based transactions are debit – and giving customers the option to sign instead of key in PIN is a big deal. Visa] has demanded that we allow fraud-prone signature verification for debit transactions in our U.S. After that point, the issuer picks up liability.

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