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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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PYMNTS’ Data Dive: Strange Bedfellows Edition — Card Networks, EMV And Retail

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Home Depot’s 2014 data breach at stores in the U.S. and Canada affected 56 million debit and credit cards, far more than the attack on Target customers. For example, over 70 percent of Walmart’s chip-based transactions are debit – and giving customers the option to sign instead of key in PIN is a big deal.

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