Square Inc. may have more incentive than other acquirers in urging merchant clients to accept EMV-chip cards, but its pricing strategy could deter some from adopting the secure technology. Square has ...

Sound Payments Inc., a multichannel technology provider that offers point-of-sale solutions for the petroleum industry, expects its partnership with National Retail Solutions, a subsidiary of IDT Corp ...

AnywhereCommerce is introducing a card reader about the size of a Zippo lighter that plugs into the audio jacks of mobile devices to accept both magnetic-stripe and chip-and-signature EMV payment ...

Discover the history of card payment security and learn how biometrics are increasing the security of card payments Futuristic advances in payment technology are being deployed across the world.

It's the beginning of the end for swipe-and-sign card payments. Over the past year, many credit card issuers have updated their customers' magnetic-stripe-only card with those that have both the ...

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 ...

In addition to this, 69% of all issued cards are EMV-enabled, and 93% of all card-present transactions conducted globally have used EMV Chip technology. This shows that the demand for secure and ...

A tiny chip in your credit card is the latest tool in the fight against financial fraud. Stores across the country are required to accept new EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa) cards by Thursday. Some ...

Card-not-present fraud incidents are growing, and this is an area of fraud that many companies are trying to address. While EMV smartcards are commonly deployed with unconnected readers to generate ...

Merchants may have some difficulty switching to EMV cards next year, but at least they'll have a range of options when it comes to payment terminals. Square is debuting its affordable chip card reader ...