On Friday, Mastercard announced that it is partnering with payment processing companies Verifone and Global Payments to help speed up chip and pin transactions at stores by incorporating its M/Chip ...

The chip and PIN credit card revolution is well under way in the United States, and the change is leaving many consumers wondering, "What's the big deal?" The truth is, this new chip and PIN ...

Any card-acceptance device can be tested and approved for eligibility to use advanced encryption under an update to the PIN Transaction Security program — even if those devices do not accept PIN ...

Visa and some card issuers are pushing signature authentication for EMV chip cards, but merchants prefer PINs. So who will win? As financial institutions slowly roll out smart cards in the United ...

In November 2018, a bit of "helpful advice" circulated via social media promoting the claim that consumers could stymie the theft of money from their debit cards via card readers through the use of a ...

With a free Chip & PIN card reader, Swedish mobile payments company iZettle is lowering the threshold for small companies to start accepting card payments. The Card Reader Lite, released Tuesday, ...

Mastercard is officially the first major card vendor to introduce a biometrics-based payment card after the company announced successful trials of this new technology in South Africa. The company's ...