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Avoid Credit Card Problems When Traveling Overseas
Most credit cards in Europe have an embedded PIN chip in them, called an EMV card. Almost no American credit cards do. This causes big problems for Americans traveling in Europe but there are a few...
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Your New Credit Card Is Already Waiting Inside This Secret Facility
Sure, credit card issuers, including Target, aim to get us all using chip-and-PIN (EMV) credit and debit cards sometime next year. They will make our transactions more secure, and maybe we’ll be less...
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Visa, MasterCard Working On Security Improvements To Make Data Breaches Suck...
The data breaches, major and minor, that we’ve seen over the past few years aren’t going anywhere. Payment system and database hacks are, for now, basically inevitable. And that’s why Visa and...
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American Credit Cards Are Most Popular In The World For Hacks, Fraud (Because...
If it feels like we hear a whole lot of stories about retail data breaches here in the U.S., well, that’s because we do. Americans are super duper popular targets for card hacks and fraud, and it’s...
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Most Small Business Owners Aren’t Ready For Chip-And-PIN Credit Cards
Following a string of high-profile data breaches last year, Visa and MasterCard handed down a requirement that all merchants transition to the more secure chip-enabled credit card payment system by...
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Home Depot Accuses Visa, MasterCard Of Colluding On “Defective” Credit Cards
While banks and credit card issuers are slowly rolling out new debit and credit cards containing microchips intended to make them less susceptible to fraud, Home Depot says in a recently filed lawsuit...
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Kroger Accuses Visa Of Using Threats To Force Supermarkets To Accept Less...
Another week, another large retailer accusing Visa of forcing stores to accept debit cards in a way that it is not as secure as it could be — and which will cost the retailer more money to process....
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