PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

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.”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2016

Earlier today Visa announced a handful of new moves aimed at pushing EMV chip adoption among merchants. Taken together, Visa believes the changes will help cut the EMV adoption timeline in half. Taken together, Visa believes the changes will help cut the EMV adoption timeline in half. million merchant locations.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

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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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2016

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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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2017

Masterpass QR, launched in 2016, already enables brick-and-mortar shoppers to pay for their purchases using their mobile phones rather than a plastic card: They can simply scan the QR code displayed at the merchant’s point of sale, or enter a text code if their phone doesn’t have a camera. EMVCo is pushing for its adoption on a global scale.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2017

Despite the security and authentication benefits, timeliness is not part of EMV’s wheelhouse. As card swipes turned to chip insertions across the U.S., Recently, to combat long lines and payments fatigue, financial, merchant service and mobile payment company Square rolled out a firmware update to its chip payment terminals.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2018

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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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

don’t rely on swiping or chip card readers. cards use chip-and-signature and chip-and-PIN methods. cards use chip-and-signature and chip-and-PIN methods. Card issuers have been slow to release contactless cards due to limited acceptance at the point of sale. However, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

Dick Durbin (D-IL) decided to take on EMV. 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. Need to know more? MCX Rides Into The Sunset. No encore was demanded.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

The launch of EMV chip cards in the U.S. Despite their success, the use of EMV cards with no required PIN codes has left a door unlocked for crooks. The trade group wants unified card security standards in the U.S., EMV cards and other anti-fraud measures have had a major impact on fraud behavior.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Last year, starting in about August, the big EMV countdown was underway — though the question as to whether they were going to “make it” was already answered. 1, around half of “big retailers” had EMV while smaller retailers were clocking in at 10 percent to 33 percent, depending on whose count one liked. They weren’t.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Since the first plastic credit card was issued by American Express in 1959 , payment tech progress has been growing exponentially. EMV chip card technology had a good two decades or so, beginning in the mid-’90s. Most modern card readers and payment terminals are NFC-equipped.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

To push that goal, Mastercard — in partnership with the world’s three largest card manufacturers, Gemalto , Giesecke & Devrient and IDEMIA — has officially launched the Greener Payments Partnership to establish environmental best practices and reduce first-use PVC plastic in card manufacturing.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

That means riders can use any Visa credential – whether it’s a Visa contactless card , mobile device or wearable – to pay for rides (along with other retail purchases, of course). In reality, and for the time being, this effort is about contactless cards more than other payment forms, but the impact could still be significant.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

This week’s EMV “liability shift” in the United States is expected to be a boon for mobile payments. Not only are we undergoing a massive expansion in number of NFC-enabled terminals, the more time-consuming “chip dip” makes Apple or Android Pay measurably faster than plastic. ———-.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

The onset of the EMV liability shift last October didn’t just make ripples in the U.S. That, however, quickly changed as the slow rollout of the EMV upgrade made headlines. “A A lot of companies still have to work through this EMV migration and we still think there’s a huge opportunity.”. EMV in the US versus Europe.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2016

I recollect a year ago being a lot more bullish that the EMV rollout would roll out the red carpet for mobile payment adoption, and it really hasn’t played out that way,” said Tony Rose, Vantiv’s director of product management. Just as we mark the two-year anniversary of the launch of Apple Pay, the digital wallet has evolved.

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Stax

JANUARY 31, 2024

If your company accepts credit card payments ( which it should ), chances are, you’re going to be affected by Visa’s interchange rates. cards currently in use. So it’s virtually impossible for a business to not accept Visa cards. TL;DR Interchange rates are the fees charged by credit card networks.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Another term to know is “carding” — that’s the catch-all world criminals use for crimes that involve stolen payment card data , Rogers explained. In short, financial institutions that set up what amounts to an early warning system for Dark Web activity can find value in that. Dark Web Terms. Early Warning Value. Enough of the basics.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Since EMV launched and chip technology has made it harder to defraud card-present transactions, fraudsters are moving over into card-not-present transactions. We’ve settled into providing services as a payments and fraud business.”. Radial knows a thing or two about fighting fraud. The company boasts a 99.7

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2018

The transition to the EMV chip in North America has been both a boon and a bit of a headache when it comes to payments security. On the one hand, Worldpay ’s VP of Data Products Nicole Jass noted, EMV has done an awful lot to slam the door shut on card-present fraud. According to Visa, counterfeit fraud at U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

With payment bigwigs like Visa , Mastercard and American Express pushing further into the B2B payments space, commercial card adoption is being driven by more than growth in the number of card products available. “It streamlines payments and ease of paying by card,” Weiss told PYMNTS in an interview.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Citi has just provided its members an in-app window into the status of their replacement cards. 29), Citi credit card members in the U.S. will be able to track the progress of their replacement card delivery in real time. Customers will also be able to activate their card through the tracker. Starting today (Nov.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2018

Get a toehold in a consumer’s account with a card and whammo, here comes EMV. Not a surprise, the exec noted, as there have been strong and successful efforts tied to EMV, which limits the ability of the fraudster to commit successful theft. Pity the poor fraudster. Grab a piece of an ID and blam! We pity no fraudsters.

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Clearly Payments

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Payment processors play a crucial role in modern commerce by enabling various forms of payment, including credit cards, debit cards, electronic funds transfers, and digital wallets. The evolution of credit card processing has played a pivotal role in shaping the modern landscape of commerce.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

Considering the fact that a majority of transactions for these smaller merchants still take place in person, at the point of sale, it is crucial to have technology in place that does the heavy lifting across several functions, from hardware that interacts with customer cards to back office reconciliation of payments. .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

Gig workers, for example, will likely soon see an upgrade to their payments speed, thanks to a bit of help from their card network friends. Card Payouts is a card-based, front end user experience that integrates with treasury banks’ existing infrastructure. Visa Ups the Pace of Gig Payments. Affirm Affirmed by Investors.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

Though the trend has been continuing as consumers boost spending through cards (both credit and debit), management noted on the call that the advanced oil-based economies, such as China and Brazil, are seeing some spending weakness. The consummation may be pushed out a bit, too. Some headline numbers are in order. Revenues were $3.63

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2018

Since the migration to EMV in the largest card market in the world (the U.S. in October of 2015), the incidences of counterfeit card fraud at chip-enabled merchants have fallen sharply — some 76 percent, as reported by card networks. Sometimes the cards are ancillary to a different criminal purpose.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Consumers always have their debit card handy and and can provide that number to a sender – knowing that if something goes wrong they are protected. This week was the first week of the last full month of summer. Or a Fizzle – because it’s the last full month of summer and everyone is complaining about it being the last month of summer.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

That means our focus in payments should be about swapping out mobile phones for plastic cards at the point of sale inside the store — right? With inflection points, it’s hard to know that you’ve hit one until you are on the other side of it. Which brings us to where we are today. Guess what? Shift Number One | The Shift To Buying Online.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

EMV: The three little letters that represent the single most hotly debated and discussed topic in the U.S. The walk to the liability shift in this market last October was technically four years long, but in reality, EMV didn’t become an absolute certainty until Dec. But it’s not just EMV.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

However, there may be an opportunity to get more contactless cards into the hands of consumers — an opportunity that involves community banks and is backed by financial incentives. million payment cards, Giorgio said. She noted that, ever since EMV chip cards were introduced in the U.S., Australia and Canada.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

Since the change to the Seattle coffee chain’s reward program now rewards customers who spend more per purchase, irrespective of how frequently they go, Travis said that his company is giving out $5 gift cards to publicize its more advantageous loyalty program. And that was just in the past four days.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2016

Atlanta-based Home Depot says new payment cards with “chip” technology remain less secure in the U.S. than cards used in Europe and elsewhere in the world. Even with chips, U.S. Even with chips, U.S. and Canada affected 56 million debit and credit cards, far more than the attack on Target customers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

Not because he didn’t have a buyer, but because his buyer didn’t have that much cash— and McKelvey didn’t take credit cards. After many fits and starts, Square pushed into an IPO in late 2015. Making it the most valuable set of glassware never sold. A worthy consolation prize by anyone’s measure. The Bumpy Road. Which it got.

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PYMNTS

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. Home Depot – Another EMV Lawsuit Joins The Party . Because in the U.S.

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