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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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Why Would Anyone Delay Chip Card Adoption?

Payments Source

As the payments industry progresses through the first stage (POS terminals) of the EMV liability shift and gets closer to the second stage (ATMs), a lingering question that can be asked is, why would any card issuer not want to get certified for EMV?

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EMV's Prepaid Problem: Issuers Aren't Interested in the Security

Payments Source

New Orleans--As credit and debit card issuers start to see the benefits of EMV-chip card security, prepaid would seem to be the logical next step. But prepaid issuers remain unconvinced of the security benefits of EMV.

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How are Interchange Fees Calculated?

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Transactions at points-of-sale where a customer physically swipes or inserts their card have lower interchange fees. Security technology Additional security measures like EMV chip cards and contactless payments can both influence interchange fees. Card networks typically use a combination of both when setting interchange fees.

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Credit Card Chips Still Under Attack From Thieves

PYMNTS

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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What Is Tiered Pricing in Credit Card Processing?

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The first key component is the transaction fee, which is the base cost merchants must pay for each credit card transaction. The interchange fee is another component, set by card issuers. These transactions are usually made with physical credit or debit cards that are swiped or inserted into chip card readers.