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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. What Types of EMV Chip Cards Are There?

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Contactless Payments: Touch to Pay? Here’s What It Is

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It’s easy to implement contactless payments if you are working with a payment provider who offers the service. Touch to pay (also called tap to pay or touchpay) payment services allow you to make a payment simply by tapping your card, wearable device, or smartphone on a contactless payment terminal.

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JCB and Worldpay from FIS Look to Enable Contactless Payments for UK Merchants

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JCB International Co has extended its collaboration with global financial technology leader FIS and its merchant solutions business, Worldpay from FIS, to enable ‘JCB Contactless’ for its UK merchants – becoming the largest JCB contactless deployment in the UK to date.

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Chip Card Shipments Top 2.3 Billion In 2017

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Generating year-on-year growth of nearly 4 percent, Smart Payment Association (SPA) data indicates that 2.3 billion payment chip cards were shipped worldwide in 2017. In terms of geographies, India saw “sustained growth” in card shipments as a transition to EMV takes place. The news comes as the shift to EMV in the U.S.

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Visa Uses NYC Mass Transit To Ignite Contactless Payments

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We are talking about consumer acceptance of contactless payments in the U.S. specifically, the use of such payments for mass transit in New York City. transit agency to implement contactless payments using Visa’s global transit framework. Moving Past EMV. The first time is a charm. forward, so to speak.

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Visa Signs Off On Optional Signatures For EMV Merchants In North America

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12) in a blog post that it is making the signature an option — and no longer a requirement — for EMV chip-enabled merchants across North America. That shift, for contact or contactless payments, goes into effect April 2018. Those investments and focus, the company said, will help “define the future of payments security.”.

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One Year In, Removing The Masking Tape From EMV

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As the payments industry nears the one-year anniversary of the United States’ transition to EMV, of course, it’s an opportune time to take stock of progress and what remains to be done. market that have created “a lot of issues for EMV deployment.“. It’s a mixed experience for the consumer, however.”.

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