Discover joins major card brands with Quick Chip offering

June 24, 2016

Discover has followed the rollout of Visa, MasterCard and American Express Quick Chip programs with its release of Discover Quick Chip. The technology…

On the hot seat, networks streamline EMV cert, soften chargeback rules

by Suzanne Cluckey — Owner, Suzanne Cluckey Communications

Lawsuits, lawmakers and loads of complaints about improper chargebacks seem to have spurred AmEx, MasterCard and Visa to ease up a little on the penalties for…

Why EMV won't keep card-skimming crooks away from ATMs

by Suzanne Cluckey — Owner, Suzanne Cluckey Communications

As long as plastic cards continue to have that stripe on the back, ATMs will continue to be a magnet for fraud.

Fime accredited by JCB for EMV migration, certification support

June 16, 2016

Fime has become the first testing provider accredited by JCB to support issuing banks with their JCB EMV migration and certification projects.

NRT launches end-to-end ATM, kiosk protection with SecureSmart

June 16, 2016

NRT Technology Corp., a provider of cash access kiosks and payment services for casinos, has launched SecureSmart, an initiative that promotes the addition of…

AmEx latest card network trying to make EMV transactions quick

June 16, 2016

American Express is the latest card network putting its best foot forward to try and reduce U.S. EMV transaction times with a software update at the physical…

5 ways for ATM operators to maximize EMV site visits

Not only can these five tips help defray the cost of an ATM site visit, but they can also make the machine itself more profitable over the longer term…

New study hangs price tag of nearly $11B on US card fraud

June 9, 2016

LexisNexis Risk Solutions has published a new study, "Issuers Confront Application Fraud and Account Takeover in a Post-EMV U.S.," that assigns a dollar value…

Indian consumers likely to feel the pain of FIs' EMV migration costs

June 3, 2016

The good news for India's bank accountholders is that their ATM transactions should be more secure 15 months from now, thanks to a reserve bank mandate…

UL VIS 1.6.1 functional test suite gets OK from Visa

June 3, 2016

The UL Visa VIS functional test suite has been qualified for Visa VIS 1.6.1 and can now be used to support card type approval testing, according to a news…

UAE's Rakbank to debut contactless EMV payment cards

June 2, 2016

Rakbank, a UAE-based financial institution, has teamed with Gemalto for its migration to contactless EMV payments. According to a press release, Gemalto will…

ATM Marketplace: Most-read features for May

by Suzanne Cluckey — Owner, Suzanne Cluckey Communications

As fast as May zoomed by, it would come as no surprise if you missed an ATM Marketplace feature or two. We've collected our top five articles here in one place…

RBI pushes Indian banks to meet EMV liability shift deadline

May 31, 2016

The Reserve Bank of India has issued a bulletin to the nation's banks, advising them of the need to enable their ATM fleets for EMV chip-and-pin cards before…

ICC intros receipt-wrangling feature for EMV test tool

May 26, 2016

ICC Solutions, a provider of EMV payment testing and certification solutions, has introduced a new test tool automation feature, according to a company press…

MasterCard urges industry collaboration to speed up EMV transactions

May 26, 2016

MasterCard is working with other acquirers, processors and payments networks on a standard to shorten checkout times for EMV transactions, according to a…

EMV Apocalypse Now

by atm Atom — blogger, atmatom

This year's EMV liability shifts will radically change the retail ISO landscape by 2018. How do we know? Because we've seen this movie before, played out in…

Nedbank intros chip-and-PIN cards in Namibia

May 20, 2016

South Africa's Nedbank is phasing out mag stripe cards in the nation of Namibia and replacing them with EMV chip-and-PIN cards.

Durbin goes after the card networks again; this time over EMV

'EMVCo standards have been technologically inadequate and their implementation has caused chaos in the U.S. market ... ' With these words, the senator from…

Creditcall chalks up five EMV processing certifications

May 13, 2016

Creditcall, an omnichannel payment gateway and EMV kernel provider, has added TSYS and Heartland to its roster of U.S. processors that have certified the…

Aussie bank ANZ enables ATMs for UnionPay chip cards

May 13, 2016

Australian bank ANZ has claimed a first with its acceptance of China UnionPay EMV cards at its ATM and POS terminals across nine countries in the Pacific.