On Friday, Mastercard announced that it is partnering with payment processing companies Verifone and Global Payments to help speed up chip and pin transactions at stores by incorporating its M/Chip ...

EMV isn’t marketing noise. When a customer inserts their chip, the card and terminal perform a handshake—generating a unique ...

Any card-acceptance device can be tested and approved for eligibility to use advanced encryption under an update to the PIN Transaction Security program — even if those devices do not accept PIN ...

Some card details on this page may be out of date.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 ...

Mastercard is officially the first major card vendor to introduce a biometrics-based payment card after the company announced successful trials of this new technology in South Africa. The company's ...