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EMV Migration Forum adds ATM working committee

June 19, 2013

The EMV Migration Forum today announced the expansion of its working committee roster to include an ATM working committee. According to a news release, the addition will help "to more broadly address" the challenges of moving to EMV chip payments. The forum also announced the addition of a card-not-present working group.

"The tremendous growth of our membership and their broad cross-industry participation in the working committees has allowed us to create new committees to address additional challenges that are critical to a successful move to EMV," said Randy Vanderhoof, director of the EMV Migration Forum.

"Having committees dedicated to providing input, solutions and expertise to address challenges with ATM and card-not-present transactions will complement our other projects and allow even more individuals and organizations to have a voice in U.S. EMV migration," Vanderhoof said.

The task of the ATM working committee is to create a positive EMV migration experience for consumers, the forum release said. To this end, the committee will explore the challenges of EMV migration for the U.S. ATM industry, work to identify possible solutions to these challenges, and facilitate the sharing of best practices with industry constituents.

The card-not-present fraud working committee is charged with creating a comprehensive best practices strategy to mitigate EMV card-not-present fraud, taking a balanced approach that serves the interests of issuers, consumers, merchants, acquirers, networks and third parties.

The working committees will provide updates on their activities during a June 27–28 meeting at McDonald's heaquarters in Oak Brook, Ill. The members-only meeting will also include attendee working sessions, stakeholder updates and EMV educational sessions.

The EMV Migration Forum is an independent cross-industry organization whose purpose is to address issues that require broad cooperation and coordination across the payments industry in order to ensure the successful introduction of EMV and contactless technology in the United States.

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