An EMV chip is a small computer chip in the front of the credit card that lets the card and the card reader engage in a digital conversation, sometimes called a handshake, to authenticate the ...

U.S. banks are steadily shipping more secure chip-embedded credit and debit cards to consumers, but industry attention is also focused on whether merchants have installed updated payment terminals to ...

The rollout of smart-chip cards and chip reader in-store payment terminals in the U.S. hasn’t been easy — to put it mildly. Saturday, Oct. 1, marks a full year since banks and card companies mandated ...

Some card details on this page may be out of date. You may have noticed that most card readers at your local grocery or retail store ask you to insert -- instead of swipe -- a credit card now. Many ...