PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2016

Earlier today Visa announced a handful of new moves aimed at pushing EMV chip adoption among merchants. We’ve taken steps to simplify the process as much as possible and help reduce any challenges so merchants can move forward with chip adoption quickly.”. market which are now ready to be used at 1.2 million merchant locations.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

Today, there are 300 million chip cards in circulation and 1.2 It’s also the first to say that there could and should be more places for consumers to use their chip cards. 2015, the cost of counterfeit fraud on chip cards is not absorbed by the issuer but the merchant, even if there is an EMV terminal on their counter.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2016

On the EMV front, Home Depot decided it felt strongly enough about Chip and PIN that that it sue MasterCard and Visa over it.Walmart Canada decided it would stop accepting Visa cards since they say they are too expensive. the verification method after dipping the chip is still a signature – as opposed to a PIN.

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