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NRF Talks PIN-less EMV And POS Fraud

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Credit card payments are increasingly enabled via EMV chips rather than magnetic stripes, but these methods frequently suffer from a lack of diligent digital identity verification. EMV Cards Face Crucial Verification Security Gaps. EMV cards are becoming increasingly commonplace in the U.S.

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Visa delays gas pump EMV deadline to 2020 after complaints

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pushed back its deadline for installing chip-card readers in U.S. gasoline pumps after station owners complained they didn’t have enough time to complete the multibillion-dollar upgrades.

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MasterCard Expands EMV Self-Certification Program

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It’s been a tough road on the way to EMV terminal deployment here in the U.S. To that end, MasterCard is announcing today that it is reducing the volume of tests that it requires of terminals before bringing them into the field as certified to enable chip card payments.

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Visa’s Merchant-Friendly EMV Moves

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EMV migration over the last seven months. Today, there are 300 million chip cards in circulation and 1.2 million EMV merchant locations. It’s also the first to say that there could and should be more places for consumers to use their chip cards. Visa’s Quick Path To EMV.

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Five At Five: Faster EMV Comes To The US

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Today’s coverage includes news about faster chip card transactions, along with brightening prospects for retail and technology in the U.S. Square Makes EMV Transactions Faster In The US. Square Makes EMV Transactions Faster In The US. Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news.

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Visa’s Take On The EMV Chargeback Debate

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The merchant-card network relationship can be complicated. It’s a complication that’s persisted long before EMV, but one that EMV seems to have intensified. The EMV Tipping Point. Whatever assumptions merchants had made about whether EMV would or would not be leapfrogged by other technology immediately vanished.

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Adding Fuel In The Tank For Mobile At The Pump?

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gas station owners to install EMV chip card readers at the pump. The new deadlines speak volumes about the upgrades needed, and as Visa noted in its own statement on the matter: “Older pumps may need to be replaced before adding chip readers, requiring specialized vendors and breaking into concrete.”