Discover how EMV technology secures transactions, its benefits over traditional systems, and its limitations in online ...

U.S. financial companies may be overestimating the technical hurdles of adopting the EMV Integrated Circuit Card Specifications, according to payments executives. Much of the world has already moved ...

Visa is beginning a proof of concept trial in South Africa to test a payments specification that uses biometrics to verify chip card transactions. Absa Bank, a subsidiary of Barclays Africa Group, ...

Nearly four years after the first standard for chip cards was published in 1995, the major card brands created EMVCo to develop, manage, test and accredit future EMV specifications and ...

The increasing digitalization of global economies, along with the unprecedented growth in online commerce, means that consumers and businesses are demanding more from payments. A recent report from ...

Contactless/EMV convergence has taken a step forward with the announcement that MasterCard Worldwide has assigned its PayPass contactless implementation specifications to EMVCo, the standards body ...

EMVCo, the EMV standards body collectively owned by American Express, JCB, MasterCard and Visa, has launched a paper entitled 'A Guide to EMV' to provide an overview of the EMV Specifications, ...

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This past year will remain in the payment industry history as The Year It Really Started. For the first time, the banking industry took seriously a technology it had regarded with distrust. After ...

ST's secure microcontroller is compliant with the new set of EMV Contactless Communication Protocol V2.0.1 Specifications for payment systems used for banking cards and terminal certification. The new ...

COURBEVOIE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Considering global market demand for independent and standardized payment solutions, G+D Mobile Security and IDEMIA announce their intention to create the White ...