Convenience features built into contactless payment systems are quietly undermining their security, as a study led by the ...

Traditional payments industry wisdom states that EMV is extremely effective solution for curbing down ‘card present’ (CP) fraud, but that EMV is at the same time completely ineffective in curbing ...

Merchants can’t eliminate fraud entirely, but they can reduce the expense of unauthorized credit card transactions. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising ...

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 ...

Businesses should be EMV compliant to avoid being held responsible for credit card fraud. EMV compliance requires businesses to use EMV card readers to process credit card transactions. Your business ...

The percentage of EMV transactions in the United States is miniscule compared to other parts of the world, but the migration to chip cards in the U.S. is lifting the technology's global growth — now ...

Chip-based credit and debit cards are designed to make it infeasible for skimming devices or malware to clone your card when you pay for something by dipping the chip instead of swiping the stripe.

Some of the most important work in payments happens before the transaction, when retailers have to make sure their devices can handle the new technologies and card types that are about to get thrust ...

Westpac is hoping to fight retail fraud and card skimming scams by moving to chip-based credit cards. "The smartcards will be a replacement to [Westpac's] current magnetic strip and pin card," said ...

Restaurants have been slow to bite on EMV. To get adoption percolating, vendors are introducing methods that let customers add a tip after making a payment or pay with tabletop devices. Paying with ...