With the arrival of Apple Pay and, more recently, Android Pay, consumers are becoming more comfortable with alternative ways of paying that don’t involve credit card swipes. And now, with the U.S.’s ...

Visa Inc. announced Tuesday a technology enhancement that the company says will speed up checkout times. The company says that "Quick Chip for EMV” cuts as much as 18 seconds from transaction times.

Dynamic Card Solutions, developer of an instant issue and PIN selection software application, says the company’s offerings can now be used by financial institutions and retailers to issue chip-based ...

As chip-equipped debit cards permeate the market, consumers face new - and potentially confusing - prompts at the register. Over the past couple of years, credit card holders have grown familiar to ...

The EMV deadline has come and gone in the United States, but the debate over how the standard is being implemented is still a hotly contested issue. Short for Europay, MasterCard and Visa, EMV is a ...

Point-of-sale terminal makers such as VeriFone Systems Inc. and Ingenico Group are cashing in on the conversion of U.S. payment cards to the EMV chip card standard. On the other side of the card ...

Having invested in new equipment, payment card manufacturers are ready to churn out EMV cards by the millions in the U.S. But issuers that wait too long could be caught short. Common in nearly all of ...

MasterCard on Wednesday unveiled M/Chip Fast, a new application that it says will bring EMV transactions close to the speed of traditional magnetic-stripe cards. The M/Chip Fast technology, which can ...

American diners might never need to let their cards out of their sight ever again. France was the first country in Europe to introduce EMV (Europay, Mastercard and Visa) credit card processing in 1992 ...

Whether you know it or not, you probably have an EMV card in your wallet. EMV cards, named for the joint development with Europay, MasterCard, and Visa, incorporate a computer chip into the physical ...