Some 15 years after the first EMV chip cards appeared, less than half of all payment cards worldwide conform to the EMV chip card standard, underscoring the slow, gradual speed EMV card deployments ...

No official movement is afoot to switch to EMV in the U.S., which is becoming increasingly Balkanized as the only major global region not moving to the more-secure chip-and-PIN technology. But a Visa ...

The United States appears to be making steady progress in its conversion to the EMV chip card standard. Some 120 million chip cards were issued by the end of last year, a figure expected to balloon to ...

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 ...

EMV or “chip” payment cards have a microprocessor embedded in the plastic. When they’re inserted in an up-to-date terminal (or tapped or waved, as the case may be), the terminal uses the chip, not the ...

Target may have lost our data, but it gave us some new vocabulary words: “EMV card,” or, perhaps, “smart-chip card.” In urgent conversations around dinner tables and in the halls of Congress, two ...

Every day, half a dozen people gather in an office in an old brick building near the harbor in Bristol, England. They each sit in front of an array of credit-card payment terminals scattered on their ...