Tag: EMV

IDG Contributor Network: What’s holding back EMV?

By Evan Schuman New stats from Visa paint a sobering picture of the acceptance of EMV, a.k.a. chip cards. June stats from what Visa says are the “top states for chip-ready merchants” show that 66% of merchants are not yet able to handle EMV. Nationally, that “do not accept” number jumps to 72%. This is…

IDG Contributor Network: The retail EMV quagmire

By Evan Schuman Retailers have this love-hate relationship with EMV, in that they love to hate EMV. It’s slow, cumbersome, alienates customers and until a store fully deploys it, the liability shift is expensive. There’s also a reasonable argument that the liability shift is not fair to merchants, since they are being punished for something…