COVID-19 pushing the U.S. to start catching up with the world on issuance and acceptance of contactless cards.

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As a generation that shows more discretion in spending habits, millennials look to technology—and mobile in particular—to help them manage money and get the best deals and consumer rewards.

Sometimes industry self-regulation does a better job protecting consumers than government regulation does.

The next time you look at the chip on your debit or credit card, consider this: We will soon mark the three-year anniversary of the EMV liability shift for point-of-sale transactions in the U.

Five decades after they were first unveiled in Swinging London as marvels of secure, cash-dispensing convenience, automatic teller machines are more vulnerable than ever—thanks to a wide array of attacks that include skimming devices, malware, intercepted communications, outright theft of the machines—and a new technique known as “jackpotting.

The payments industry has grappled with rising merchant attrition for quite some time.

In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first black U.

EMV has been a much-discussed payments topic in recent years.

It’s been a little more than a year since payment-card fraud liability shifted from card issuers to retailers—and in that time, the majority of EMV news has focused on the growing pains of transition.

In 2010, the federal government passed the Durbin amendment (named for U.

“We saw a decrease in fraud of about 75%,” says Vivienne Nicol, senior manager, fraud operations, at ATB Financial in Calgary, Canada.