About time is all I can say about this. The country that sticks to miles and mag stripes truly needs to get with the programme and I hope Visa are serious about forcing this through. MasterCard should be all over this too.
Visa cites m-payments as it pushes US to EMV | Finextra
Now card giant Visa has set out its programme to drive the adoption of dual-interface chip technology to "help prepare the US payment infrastructure for the arrival of NFC-based mobile payments" as well as improve security and international interoperability.
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What was the holdup? Obviously there’s an expense associated with upgrading the cards and machine countrywide, but wouldn’t that be offset handily by a decrease in fraud?
Holdup? You could call it resistance to change.