The US conversion to EMV is almost 2 years old now. What major issues are involved with the process of adoption? Below you can read several important points associated with some side effects regarding EMV technology: EMV chip cards were first tested 20 years ago. They were developed for offline authorizations in the European market and not designed to fit...
The US decided to switch to EMV chip cards in October 2015. In 2016, e-commerce fraud rates grew by 33%, according to Experian, a global information services group After the EMV Liability Shift In 2016, the Strawhecker Group, a management consulting company focused on the payments industry, found that 29% of card-present merchants were already using an EMV-compliant terminal and...
Taken globally, the electronic payments industry is almost as fragmented as the mobile messaging industry for platforms like WeChat (China), Line (Japan), Viber (Philippines), and others. In North America, PayPal and its subsidiaries Venmo and Braintree play a dominant role in the electronic payments market. In Africa, Kenya’s M-PESA is the top player. It serves as a means of economic...
As soon as the retailer accepts the transaction, the information has to be transmitted to a verified payment processor to be completed. A payment processor completes the transaction by sending data between the merchant, the merchant’s bank, the consumer’s card and their bank. A payment processor is the company providing the hardware at a storefront location. A payment processing partner...
Visa has recently provided clarification and modification regarding debit routing rules. Merchants can route US EMV debit transactions not just through Visa’s network, but through over 12 available ones. 2 payment application identifiers (AIDs) on the chip enable debit routing and processing. These are the US Common Debit Aid and the Visa Debit Aid. Visa says the Common Debit AID...
In 2016, new chip debit and credit cards were issued to consumers by major financial institutions. According to the US Payments Forum, 600 million cards have been issued. How do these chip cards protect consumers? EMV (Europay/MasterCard/Visa) chip cards are designed to protect you from data breaches. The system has been used in European countries and Canada for decades. 90%...
One year has passed since EMV technology arrived in the US credit card market. Chip cards are designed to make transactions safer and they really do this. According to a NerdWallet survey, the majority of consumers approve the EMV liability shift in the US. Happy Birthday EMV MasterCard reports 88% of its credit cards are chip-ready, but 67% of all...
EMV chips cards are called to protect merchants from fraudulent transactions. Consumers can get more protections from EMV if the chips are used properly. However, both merchants and consumers still need more protection in several areas. Today, EMV chip cards are being used by less than 50% of all merchants. Larger merchants choose to swipe because of several reasons, and...
The implementation of EMV in the U.S. has been anything but straight forward. Even though merchants were informed years in advance of the Oct. 1, 2015 deadline, an overwhelming number of merchants have yet to shift from signature credit cards to EMV, or “chip and PIN”. Why? U.S. Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) recently sent a letter to the Federal Trade...
EMV chip cards, the more secure cards with data-encrypting chips are the latest major innovation in the card payments industry. Card issuers and banks continue to do their part to ensure that every customer has these cards. Retailers on their part are in a rush to deploy new point-of-sale terminals that support them. With this EMV migration rollout proceeding full...
