Credit card issuers and merchants in the United States today face a liability shift tied to the new, more secure payment technology. Under the new liability standards, whichever party — either the ...

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 ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Does the new chip in your credit card protect you from fraud? There are 408 million credit cards, embedded with the chip, in circulation. That means about 80 percent of Americans ...

CHICAGO, Illinois -- The chips in credit and debit cards protect consumers from hackers, but the same technology could make you a victim of fraud, the I-Team at our sister station WLS-TV found. The ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Visa and MasterCard are renewing a push to speed the adoption of microchips into U.S. credit and debit cards in the wake of recent high-profile data breaches, including this week's ...

Hey small business owners: If you haven’t prepared for the transition to chip-embedded credit and debit cards, you don’t have long. Here are some tips to help you meet the Oct. 1 deadline to get new ...

Virginia Credit Union is sending out new MasterCard credit cards with embedded microchips for extra security to its 60,000 cardholders. Widely used globally, but not in the United States, chip ...

Oregon’s Department of Human Services is asking the state Legislature this year to pony up $6.8 million to launch “a mass replacement” of food stamp benefit cards so they can be embedded with new ...