Online bank Intelligent Finance (IF) is closing down a credit card used by 70,000 customers because it is too expensive to upgrade the infrastructure to cope with chip and PIN. Customers using the ...

Contrary to rampant misconception, we have not adopted the more secure chip and PIN payment standard in the United States that could address the rapid rise in online fraud. Leading up to last year’s ...

A chip and PIN card is a credit card that includes microchip technology and a personal identification number (PIN) to securely verify a cardholder during a transaction. The embedded microchip is ...

The chip and PIN credit card revolution is well under way in the United States, and the change is leaving many consumers wondering, "What's the big deal?" The truth is, this new chip and PIN ...

For years, the U.S. has been divided on whether EMV-chip cards should be deployed as chip-and-PIN cards or the simpler chip-and-signature. After the Target data breach drew attention to the threat of ...

TRI-CITIES, TN/VA (WJHL) – The National Retail Federation says in 2014, 87-million people shopped on Black Friday and they predict for this holiday shopping, sales will rise 3.7%. In 2013, the credit ...

Like Mexico last year and Europe for many years, Canada this year embraced the chip-and-pin credit card security standard. That means U.S.-based corporate travelers increasingly may find that magnetic ...

JPMorgan Chase & Co. will issue chip-and-PIN credit cards this year, a deviation from the company's earlier plans to issue only chip-and-signature cards. EMV cards are commonly called chip-and-PIN ...

October 1 is right around the corner. Merchants, retailers, hotels and restaurants: are you ready for what’s in your customers’ wallets? Starting next month, the payment card industry’s transition to ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state of South ...