EMV

Evidence exists that in most markets in which public regulators oversaw EMV implementations, the results were much better for merchants and consumers.

Merchants without chip card readers are reporting that a few malicious customers have figured out how to game the system.

The card networks earlier this year introduced faster versions of EMV payments to ease checkout times. They've since had a hard time winning merchant adoption.

There was once a huge push behind contactless payment cards in the U.S., but eventually issuers lost interest in the format. However, there are signs that contactless payments will make another push.

Issuers are watching the consumer response to Citi’s rollout of its cobranded Costco card, which is the largest U.S. portfolio of EMV cards that are also NFC-enabled.

As EMV's sales draw starts to fade, ISOs are starting to move on to other products.

The U.S. migration has passed the one-year mark, but more key dates are on the horizon.

While card issuers took a step in the right direction by replacing the fraud-prone magnetic stripe cards of the past, they made many missteps that complicated and weakened the EMV transition.

Alfred F. Kelly Jr. may be planning to run Visa his own way, but he will still face the same challenges his predecessor did. Here are a few of Visa's most immediate issues.

The U.S. EMV migration is slowly progressing, but there are significant hurdles to full adoption of the secure payment card technology. Here are a few of forces working against EMV.