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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.

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Hacked ATMs Lead to 70% Rise in Debit Card Fraud

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The number of hacked card readers at U.S. This new data follows a 546 percent increase in compromised ATMs from 2014 to 2015. The rest took place at bank ATMs or point-of-sale (POS) devices, such as card payment machines at retailers. The average number of cards affected by a single compromise was cut in half.

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Machine Learning Improves CNP Fraud Detection Rates by 30%*

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While adoption of the EMV payment standard in the US (as embodied in chip cards and panic at the checkout ) has been slow, fraudsters’ gravitation to card not present (CNP) fraud has been anything but. Two and a half years after the liability shift from issuers to merchants (i.e.,

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Credit Card Chips Still Under Attack From Thieves

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According to TechCrunch , devices called “shimmers” can now read your card number and possibly access your card’s chip and obtain your PIN number. Shimmers are actually not new — the security breach has been around since 2015, but many assumed cards equipped with chips were immune to it.

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Europe, CNP Fraud Trendsetter?

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Just as payment methods are varied, so too are the ways that people pay, and whether, given a certain locale, they prefer paper (cash) over plastic (via mag stripe or chip card), or mobile over interactions with the cashier — these differences color fraud as well. Fraud varies country to country, region to region.

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Tap to Pay: What It Is and How It Works

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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. Apple Pay caught up in 2014; in 2015, the wearables market made everyone aware of the tap’s potential.

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How Adopting Mobile Payments Can Help Your Business Grow in 2024

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Request Quote Upgrade Your Legacy Equipment for Mobile Payments The world’s foremost mobile phone manufacturers, Apple and Samsung started to foster the use of mobile payments as early as 2014 and 2015, respectively. Google was a little late to the party, but it also followed with its method called Google Pay in 2016.