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 ...

Despite being around since the 1990’s, consumers and merchants didn’t really have to deal with EMV cards until 2015. Short for Europay, MasterCard, and Visa, EMV technology uses a chip that’s embedded ...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Earlier this year, it was announced that Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. pushed back the deadline for installing EMV chip-card readers at gas pumps in the United States to 2020, ...

If you've recently received a new credit card equipped with a shiny little microprocessor chip, you might feel a twinge of panic. If your old card was working fine, you wonder, why did your issuer ...

Credit and debit cards with EMV chips have been around for five years now, except at gas stations. That’s because it is a lot harder to change card readers in gas pumps — where it may require breaking ...

New technology could beat fraudsters, but you’ll still be vulnerable. — -- Those tiny new chips embedded in your credit cards promise to make it tougher for thieves to steal your data. But before ...

But you may be in for some surprises, and I say this from personal experience. I recently was with two childhood friends on our annual girlfriends getaway, which included shopping. I handed my ...

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 ...

Unattended gas pumps would seem to be the perfect use case for EMV's anti-counterfeiting security, but many gas station owners are putting off their upgrades for as long as possible due to hardships ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Katie Miller is a consumer financial services expert. She worked for almost two decades as ...

Worldpay is making the faster EMV options available as a standard on the terminals that it will ship going forward. It's also adjusting the software on existing terminals. The move is a subtle ...