Chip Based Payment Cards news and trends

MasterCard Helps SMBs Get EMV-Ready
Mastercard // September 24, 2015

MasterCard is on a mission – its Chip 360 campaign is working down to the final days before the EMV liability shift deadline to ensure small businesses across the U.S. are ready to march full speed ahead into the world of chip-enabled payments. MPD CEO...

Target Will Soon Take A Bite At The Apple (Pay)
News // June 01, 2015

Another big MCX merchant could soon embrace Apple Pay. Last week, Target CEO Brian Cornell dropped a big hint that the retailer was open to accepting Apple Pay — indicating that Target would eventually accept the payment option. But first, he wants to see secure chip-and-PIN credit...

Chase’s Chip Tech Expands To Protect More Payments
News // May 13, 2015

“The world keeps getting smarter. Shouldn’t our transactions be smarter, too?”  That’s the motto Chase has used to promote EMV chip technology, which Chase is expanding to its debit cards, credit cards and ATMs to help its consumers become better protected as part of the push...

MasterCard’s EMV Chip Campaign Aimed At SMBs
News // May 07, 2015

The payments networks are on a mission: a mission to ensure small businesses understand EMV adoption, and to ensure they have the resources to know how to implement the payments standard. Earlier this week, Visa announced the launch of an online toolkit aimed at helping small business owners...

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Target Will Soon Take A Bite At The Apple (Pay)

June 01, 2015
Another big MCX merchant could soon embrace Apple Pay. Last week, Target CEO Brian Cornell dropped a big hint that the retailer was open to accepting Apple Pay — indicating that Target would eventually accept the payment option. But first, he wants to see secure chip-and-PIN credit cards make their way across the market, according to what […]

Chase’s Chip Tech Expands To Protect More Payments

May 13, 2015
“The world keeps getting smarter. Shouldn’t our transactions be smarter, too?”  That’s the motto Chase has used to promote EMV chip technology, which Chase is expanding to its debit cards, credit...

MasterCard’s EMV Chip Campaign Aimed At SMBs

May 07, 2015
The payments networks are on a mission: a mission to ensure small businesses understand EMV adoption, and to ensure they have the resources to know how to implement the payments...

Number Of EMV Chip Cards Jumped By 1 Billion In 2014

May 07, 2015
Newly released figures from EMVCo, the public corporation that manages the payments standard, show the number of EMV chip cards in circulation increased globally by 43 percent in 2014 to...