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The Straight Scoop On EMV: One Year Later

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Additionally, according to newly released data from Cayan, consumers are getting increasingly used to using EMV in their day-to-day lives — 42 percent of consumers use chip cards three or more times per week while shopping. Not surprising, since there are more than 700 million chip cards in circulation in the U.S.

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Visa’s Senior Risk Exec Talks Purchase Alert Program

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Our data has shown that cards enrolled in Visa Transaction Alerts have fewer fraudulent transactions than cards without transaction alerts. issuers must provide consumer credit, debit and reloadable prepaid Visa cardholders with an option to enroll in transaction alerts.

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Synthetic Identities, Tailor-Made For Fraud

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Chip cards removed at least some of the gains to be had from counterfeit cards – although, according to Barnhardt, “All this fraud has to find a home. Because these are based on valid Social Security numbers, they will usually not be flagged at either the point of new account enrollment or at the transaction.

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In Battling Identity Fraud, Finding Digital DNA And The`(Synthetic ID) Devil Behind The Details

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Barnhardt related that with the advent of chip cards in the United States, fraudsters have been looking for new avenues through which to continue their criminal enterprises. The data is out there now, more than ever before – and, as he said, all stakeholders need to be proactive in the battle.

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How To Solve Consumers’ Real Commerce Troubles

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The exhausted holiday shopper didn’t hate going to the mall because she had to swipe a card to buy stuff, and the line languisher didn’t get angry because they had to use a chip card to dip and pay. Because that part works fine.