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PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: Fraud Losses Topped $21B In 2015

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percent in 2015, outpacing the growing global card volume. The industry’s best defense against counterfeit fraud are EMV cards and the terminals needed to read their chips,” David Robertson, publisher of The Nilson Report, said in a press release. billion | The amount of gross card fraud losses worldwide that the U.S.

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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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Credit Card Chips Still Under Attack From Thieves

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Consumers might have felt a bit safer using their credit card with the introduction of EMV chip technology, but thieves looking to steal your information have managed to find a way to still gain access to PIN numbers, as well as your card’s chip in some cases. The majority of that theft was from credit cards.

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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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There Are 6.1 Billion EMV Cards In Circulation

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percent of all card-present transactions globally were handled with EMV tech — a 35.8 percent increase from the same time two years ago in 2015. and Asia demonstrated notable increases as they continued migrating card-present based payments to EMV chip technology. The new data also indicates that 52.4 percent; the U.S.

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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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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.