It has been ten months since the October 1, 2015 deadline for credit card companies and retailers to switch to smart chip EMV credit cards in order to avoid liability for fraudulent card use and now ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Verifone (NYSE: PAY) announced today that it will enable its North America payment devices to support all Mastercard EMV transactions, including contact and ...

Starting Oct. 1, a new standard in credit card technologies goes into effect. — -- Chip-enabled credit cards will now become the standard for consumers and business owners. Banks and credit ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Just in time for the peak holiday shopping season in North America, Verifone (NYSE: PAY) announced today that it is implementing Mastercard’s M/Chip Fast technology ...

With the U.S. migration to EMV smart card technology underway and the payments landscape evolving more rapidly than ever, major card networks have been re-examining their roles to determine how best ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Katie Miller is a consumer financial services expert. She worked for almost two decades as ...

Credit card fraud is the most common form of identity theft, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The four major credit card networks — Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover — ...

The EMV standard, introduced in the U.S. in 2011, gained urgency after Target’s 2013 data breach exposed 40 million card numbers. This breach highlighted the vulnerabilities of magnetic stripe cards, ...

The chips embedded in newer credit cards make shopping safer, but they also slow down the process of buying things. Instead of simply swiping your card, you have to leave it in the reader, which slows ...

Through technology trials, consumers in Amsterdam, France and Finland have been learning to use cell phones with near-field communication (NFC) technology for electronic payments and data exchange.