On Friday, Mastercard announced that it is partnering with payment processing companies Verifone and Global Payments to help speed up chip and pin transactions at stores by incorporating its M/Chip ...

EMV isn’t marketing noise. When a customer inserts their chip, the card and terminal perform a handshake—generating a unique ...

Any card-acceptance device can be tested and approved for eligibility to use advanced encryption under an update to the PIN Transaction Security program — even if those devices do not accept PIN ...

Mastercard is officially the first major card vendor to introduce a biometrics-based payment card after the company announced successful trials of this new technology in South Africa. The company's ...