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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.

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Machine Learning Improves CNP Fraud Detection Rates by 30%*

FICO

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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Hacked ATMs Lead to 70% Rise in Debit Card Fraud

FICO

That means we’ll continue to see compromises - and card fraud - rise. As ATMs aren’t yet required to be chip-card enabled, the EMV adoption that came into force last year isn’t driving fraud down yet. If your plastic card is captured inside of an ATM, call your card issuer immediately to report it.

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The Different Ways a Business Can Accept Credit Cards

Clearly Payments

This involves using a physical point-of-sale (POS) terminal to process card payments. How It Works The customer swipes, inserts, or taps their card on the POS device. The terminal communicates with the card issuer to approve the payment. Accepts contactless and EMV chip cards , which are more secure than magnetic stripes.

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Card Data Compromised For Buckle Guests Who Swiped Card To Pay

PYMNTS

The company believes that exposure of cardholder data that could be used to create counterfeit cards – including names, addresses, emails and Social Security numbers – was limited, but some credit card numbers may have been compromised. Buckle is now working with card issuers with regard to the incident.

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Synthetic Identities, Tailor-Made For Fraud

PYMNTS

Chip cards removed at least some of the gains to be had from counterfeit cards – although, according to Barnhardt, “All this fraud has to find a home. Cybercriminals use that information to create new names, addresses and phone numbers to generate new profiles in a process that repeats over and over again.

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Arming Credit Unions In The Fight Vs. Fraud

PYMNTS

“One thing that we’ve done a really poor job of as an industry is we’ve missed the point about tokenized payments, because there are benefits for keeping the criminals at arm’s length away from the payment card information,” Buzzard explained. When we hit that 75 percent and up level of chip readers out in the U.S.,