MasterCard and Visa

February 16, 2016

The Great EMV Fake-Out: No Chip For You!

This post was originally published on this siteMany banks are now issuing customers more secure chip-based credit cards, and most retailers now have card terminals in their checkout lanes that can handle the “dip” of chip-card transactions (as opposed to the usual swipe of the card’s magnetic stripe). But comparatively few retailers actually allow chip transactions: Most are still asking customers to swipe the stripe instead of dip the chip. This post will examine what’s going on here, why so many merchants are holding out on the dip, and where this all leaves consumers. Visa CEO Charles W. Scharf said in an earnings […]