Europay, Mastercard and Visa -- chip technology, the global standard for card payments that significantly reduces fraud. Most card users are familiar with the chip feature of EMV cards, but EMV ...

EMV – Europay, Mastercard and Visa – chip cards replace magnetic strip technology and guard against fraudulent credit and debit card transactions.

If you're headed to Europe, it would be wise to upgrade your magnetic-stripe card to a chip card as many countries have migrated to EMV technology.

Boosted by the rapid rise of chip card payments in Asia and the United States, more than half of general-purpose credit and debit cards worldwide now have an EMV chip, EMVCo reported Thursday. Plus, ...

Chip cards don't fix everything To be perfectly clear, EMV card technology does not make you immune to fraud. For starters, it does nothing to solve the problem of e-commerce fraud.

The percentage of EMV transactions in the United States is miniscule compared to other parts of the world, but the migration to chip cards in the U.S. is lifting the technology's global growth — ...

Follow these tips to stay EMV compliant when processing chip-enabled credit cards.

EMV Chip is a global standard relating to integrated circuit cards, point-of-sale terminals, and automated teller machines, currently managed by EMVCo.

First up is MasterCard Inc., which says that “tens of millions” of chip-enabled transactions are being made in the United States. “I would say it marks great progress already,” says Carolyn Balfany, ...

The EMV-chip card standard is a counterfeit deterrent that only protects transactions at the point of sale. As a result, many observers expected fraudsters to simply move their attention to ...