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EMV Chip Cards: What You Need to Know About PIN or Signature Cards and How They Work

Stax

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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How Merchants Can Lower Their Credit Card Processing Fees

Clearly Payments

Accept Debit Transactions, But Not Visa Debit Businesses can promote the usage of debit transactions as a means of reducing overall costs. Debit transactions, often characterized by lower processing fees compared to credit card transactions, offer a cost-efficient alternative for businesses.

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Merchants empowered by Fed's clarity on debit routing

Payments Source

Merchants may have gained an edge in their dispute with Visa over how EMV debit transaction routing is handled at the point of sale.

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Frustrated Merchants Seek Federal Intervention on Debit Routing

Payments Source

Citing a growing frustration with how the EMV transition has interfered with merchants' options for PIN debit transaction routing and authorization, the Merchant Advisory Group for the first time is asking federal auditors to examine the practices of some debit card issuers.

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Visa Adjusts Policies On Debit Routing

PYMNTS

22) that it is working to modify its debit routing policies, saying that it has “modified and clarified” its rules to boost EMV chip card adoption in the United States. The first, said Visa, supports the more than a dozen domestic debit networks that exist alongside, and as alternatives to, Visa Debit.

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FTC inquiry casts fresh attention on U.S. debit routing issues

Payments Source

The specific impetus for the Federal Trade Commission's inquiry into Visa and Mastercard's debit transaction routing processes is not entirely clear, but it likely stems from the effect that advanced payments technology has had on Durbin amendment compliance.

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Card not present fraud to surpass USD 7 bln

The Paypers

(The Paypers) An average of only 20% of credit card transactions and 10% of debit transactions are chip-on-chip and CNP fraud is expected to rise with the use of EMV, a recent report unveils.

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