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 ...

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 ...

As October 2015 came and went, fraud liability not-so-silently shifted to U.S. business owners whose POS devices are not equipped to accept chip card payments. According to The Strawhecker Group, only ...

Does your credit card chip track your spending? Learn what data EMV chips actually store and how your purchase history stays ...

EMV isn’t marketing noise. When a customer inserts their chip, the card and terminal perform a handshake—generating a unique ...

There’s a push to adopt chip-equipped payment cards in the U.S. following high-profile breaches at large retailers and restaurant chains during the past 12 months, but experts warn that switching to ...

Through technology trials, consumers in Amsterdam, France and Finland have been learning to use cell phones with near-field communication (NFC) technology for electronic payments and data exchange.