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Samsung may have a hard time convincing users of Samsung Pay that a breach of its LoopPay technology by Chinese hackers has nothing to do with payment card data or the security of the mobile wallet.

The major card networks operate from a position of strength as among the first movers in providing tokenization, but they must move with the market if they want to hold that position.

Europe has been a clear leader in the adoption of EMV. One notable migration took place in the United Kingdom. The U.K. began the process of promoting EMV in 2002 and completed the full roll out in 2006.

Kabbage is one of many nonbank lenders looking to partner with traditional financial institutions. But the firm is facing a tough sell with bankers who worry about the risks associated with ceding control of the loan-underwriting process.

E-commerce merchants aren't supposed to be directly affected by the U.S. shift to EMV-chip cards at the point of sale, but they will face several unintended consequences of the increase in payment card security.

Though the EMV transition is a significant step in the effort towards making payments more secure, this EMV liability shift won’t solve mass data breaches on merchants.

A server containing sensitive consumer information at Experian has been breached, with the records of as many as 15 million T-Mobile customers stolen, the companies said Oct. 1.

The Trump Hotel Collection has disclosed a data breach that may have compromised customers’ debit and credit card data for more than a year. The breach was caused by malware lurking in the hotel’s payment system.

Like campaign managers at the end of a long election trail, top payments executives spent the final hours leading up to and shortly after the official EMV liability shift launch supporting the efforts of the past four years and providing the latest details on chip-card migration.

Rules set by Visa and MasterCard suggest that by the start of this month, ideally, banks would all be issuing EMV-compliant cards and retailers would have the technology to accept them. If one party is supporting EMV and the other is not, the delinquent entity will have to cover the cost of any fraud that ensues.