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JANUARY 13, 2020

The launch of EMV chip cards in the U.S. in the early 2000s had much of the hoped-for effect: By 2017, both Mastercard and Visa had reported that counterfeit fraud was more than halved. Despite their success, the use of EMV cards with no required PIN codes has left a door unlocked for crooks. It’s not all good news.

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MARCH 18, 2016

The initial push by payments firm Square into Australia hit a rough patch after the security of its mPOS reader was scrutinized, as noted by The Australian. Though the device, designed for use in the United States, accepts chip cards, it was not set up with a PIN pad.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

In it, CEO Tim Cook credited much of Apple Pay’s recent growth to its increasing use in mass transit. Transit is another important area of growth and Apple Pay can be used with iPhone and Apple Watch to quickly and conveniently ride public transit in 12 metropolitan areas.”. Visit a major U.S. OK, that might be an exaggeration. Contactless Visions.

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JUNE 19, 2016

On the EMV front, Home Depot decided it felt strongly enough about Chip and PIN that that it sue MasterCard and Visa over it.Walmart Canada decided it would stop accepting Visa cards since they say they are too expensive. the verification method after dipping the chip is still a signature – as opposed to a PIN.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

Mastercard started with week with an announcement of how its Mastercard Send product would extend the reach and the speed of Early Warning’s clearXchange P2P network for bank customers with a Mastercard branded debit product. This week was the first week of the last full month of summer.

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MAY 23, 2016

MCX coalition members hoped that the scheme would be attractive enough to consumers that many of them would shift away from what they were using in the store — branded plastic cards — to its mobile payments scheme. Back stateside, it was another blockbuster week and just in time for the summer blockbuster season. Need to know more?

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JULY 8, 2016

The ubiquity of PIN-less chip cards in the U.S. can be estimated by the fact that over 60 percent of Visa’s chip-based credit and debit cards didn’t require PIN or signature until last year. The massive payment infrastructure overhaul, which came with an estimated $8.65 billion price tag, led U.K For the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

That was the date that lives on in payments history since it was the date that Target announced it had been the victim of a massive POS breach that exposed the card data of some 40 million consumers. Nationwide, there are roughly 2 million chip-enabled businesses, and 1.3 There’s plenty of positive data to look at.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Will anything ever excite millennials about credit cards? There were more questions than answers in the news last week. Are Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump each healthy enough to be president? Who planted the bomb in Manhattan on Saturday night (Sept. Elizabeth Warren. With an asterisk or two. Ready for the full story? On Tuesday (Sept.

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