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A knotty problem involving the EMV chip card standard, debit card transaction routing, and the Durbin Amendment may take a crucial step toward resolution next month when the country’s two largest card networks are expected to indicate whether they will support a potential solution proposed by a debit-network group, according …
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CreditCall Pushes ‘EMV-in-the-Cloud’ to Ease U.S. Adoption As Readiness Deadlines Near
With deadlines fast approaching for U.S. merchants, acquirers, and other payments players to adopt the Europay-MasterCard-Visa (EMV) chip card standard, vendors are stepping forward with ideas to simplify readiness. One of the latest of these is a concept that asks why chip transactions can’t be managed by remote servers—why, in …
Read More »MasterCard Is Readying an EMV Liability Shift for Card-Not-Present Payments, Exec Says
MasterCard is getting close to announcing an EMV-related liability shift for online and other card-not-present transactions, a network executive said on Monday. “MasterCard will have a card-not-present liability shift,” said Melanie Gluck, vice president of emerging payments at the country’s second-largest payments network. “We haven’t announced it yet, it’s under …
Read More »EMV No Guarantee Against High Rates of Card Fraud, Study Shows
Cardholders in Mexico, not the United States, report the highest incidents of card fraud, according to a new report from Boston-based Aite Group LLC and Elkhorn, Neb-based ACI Payment Systems. Of the credit, debit, and prepaid cardholders surveyed in Mexico, where EMV cards are rolling out, 44% reported an incident …
Read More »PCI Waiver Expected To Spur Merchant Adoption of EMV Terminals
Despite just 10% of U.S. merchant terminals being capable of accepting EMV chip cards today, 60% of all terminals likely will be EMV-enabled by 2015, according to a new report from Javelin Strategy & Research. Javelin also expects U.S. issuers will convert the bulk of their credit, debit, and prepaid …
Read More »Acquirers Bear Burden to Warn Small Merchants About EMV Risk Shift, Processor Exec Says
With a major chip card standard bearing down on U.S. merchants, acquirers, and issuers, small merchants in particular could face tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in annual fraud losses they are currently protected from, a processor executive argues. Patty Walters, senior vice president for merchant products and …
Read More »Eye on Security: PCI Guidelines for Mobile Apps; MasterCard’s EMV Rules for ATMs
Continuing its slow march toward comprehensive security requirements for mobile payments, the PCI Security Standards Council on Thursday released a set of best practices for developers of software for mobile devices. The guidelines follow by four months the guidance about mobile payments that the Council released for small merchants. The …
Read More »Late with Its ‘Roadmap,’ AmEx Could Jump into EMV Lead Among Networks
American Express Co. announced what it calls its “roadmap” for EMV and chip-based and mobile payments in the U.S., which means all four of the major U.S.-based payment card networks are now on record with plans to move beyond the magnetic-stripe payment card. Like the ones from MasterCard Inc. and …
Read More »MasterCard Proposes an Industry-Wide Group To Spur EMV Payments
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Read More »Big-Box Retailers Like Wal-Mart Remain Wary of Network EMV Plans
There’s no federal edict to replace fraud-prone magnetic-stripe credit and debit cards with the more secure EMV chip card, but the payment card networks have unveiled various plans in the past year to encourage U.S card issuers, merchant acquirers, and merchants to board the EMV train. Exactly how a U.S. …
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