The nationwide switch from magnetic stripe credit cards to EMV chip cards is well underway. Is your business ready? If not, you’re leaving your customers more susceptible to fraud and your company ...

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 ...

You might think as a technology compliance consultant that we spend the majority of our time pouring over complicated regulatory documents and network configurations. Well, that’s not quite the case.

First Data is releasing a tablet device that will accept most payment types, including checks, EMV and magnetic stripe credit cards, and mobile payments from systems such as Apple Pay and Android Pay.

As promised back in July, mobile payments platform provider Square has made an EMV chip-card reader available to its customers. But rather than offering the net-gen reader for free, Square is charging ...

Five things consumers need to know about EMV chip cards: Today, October 1, EMV credit/debit card readers will be activated at stores across the U.S. who have purchased new EMV terminals. If you don't ...

Credit card technology is about to change beginning in October 2015, and small businesses that accept credit card payments need to take steps now or risk expensive consequences. In the upcoming switch ...

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 ...

The PayPal Here card reader, PayPal’s hardware device that lets merchants accept credit and debit card payments through a dongle attached to their iOS or Android device, is being updated with support ...

EMV-chipped cards are more secure than magstripe cards, and businesses can limit liability by accepting them. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

Chip cards were supposed to make it harder to commit fraud at the point of sale and at ATMs, but card skimmers haven’t gotten the memo. If you think EMV cards have put a big dent in card skimming, ...

To get you prepared for the transition to EMV, here are eight essential questions to ask: 1. What are EMV cards anyway and what makes them safer? EMV (short for Europay, MasterCard, Visa) cards are ...