Princeton Junction, N.J., May 19, 2014 –As the U.S. continues its migration to EMV chip payments, communication plays an important everyday role, both internally for financial institutions and merchant organizations, and externally for consumers who will interact with new payment card technology. The EMV Migration Foruminvites executives to learn how to build effective, accurate and consistent communications surrounding EMV chip payments at a webinar coming this June.

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Princeton Junction, N.J., April 29, 2014 – The EMV Migration Forum is providing theU.S. debit payments industry with a strong path forward in their move to EMV chip technology with the release of a technical EMV debit framework today. The industry-supported framework is detailed in the white paper “U.S. Debit EMV Technical Proposal,” available for download at http://www.emv-connection.com/u-s-debit-emv-technical-proposal/.

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Princeton Junction, N.J., April 28, 2014 – The U.S. payments industry is accelerating its move to EMV chip card payments to reduce counterfeit card fraud, provide global interoperability and enable safer and smarter transactions across card and mobile NFC payments channels. To help card issuing banks and merchants achieve these benefits and ready their organizations for the October 2015 fraud liability shift, the EMV Migration Forum is offering a third ‘EMV 101’ webinar.

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Princeton Junction, N.J., April 2, 2014 – U.S. EMV chip adoption is poised for exponential growth in the next year from today’s estimated 17 to 20 million EMV chip cards and millions of EMV-capable terminals and ATMs, some of which already accept EMV chip cards, the EMV Migration Forum announced at its March meeting. The Forum also provided in-depth briefings on the significant progress in working through technical challenges relating to EMV debit implementation, resulting in an industry stakeholder-supported debit technical solution framework. Continue Reading →

EMV Migration Forum releases Standardization of Terminology 2.1 for industry use

Princeton Junction, N.J., April 1, 2014 –The U.S. payments system is changing as we join 80+ other countries and move to chip card payments. As new payment cards, new acceptance terminals and a new way to pay in-store are being introduced to the market, our basic terminology will evolve. To ensure consistency and accuracy in the way card issuers, retailers, consumers and the media talk and write about chip technology, the EMV Migration Forum has released a new version of its Standardization of Terminology document. Continue Reading →

Princeton Junction, N.J., February 24, 2014 – The U.S. payments industry is accelerating its move to EMV chip card payments to reduce counterfeit card fraud, provide global interoperability and enable safer and smarter transactions across card and mobile NFC payments channels. To help card issuing banks and merchants achieve these benefits and ready their organizations for the October 2015 fraud liability shift, the EMV Migration Forum is offering a second ‘EMV 101’ webinar.

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Princeton Junction, N.J., Jan. 7, 2014 — EMV chip technology is coming to the U.S. payment system to reduce counterfeit card fraud, provide global interoperability and enable safer and smarter transactions across card and mobile NFC payments channels. All U.S. payment industry stakeholders need to learn how migrating to EMV chip payments can help them to achieve these benefits and ready their organizations for the October 2015 shift in fraud liability. To provide essential foundational education to the payments community, the EMV Migration Forum is offering a free webinar, “EMV 101,” on Jan. 22, 2014.

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Work group formed to address technical requirements for debit implementation

Princeton Junction, N.J., December 23, 2013 – The U.S. migration to EMV chip payment technology is moving forward, and the cross-industry EMV Migration Forum and its Working Committees report significant progress in determining and addressing critical issues and implementation steps to ensure the migration is a success. This includes addressing the complex technical requirements for EMV debit implementation, for which the Forum’s new Debit Technical Work Group was formed in November.

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News from the EMV Migration Forum

Princeton Junction, N.J., October 3, 2013 – Following its first anniversary as an organization, the EMV Migration Forum and its payment industry members are continuing to work together on advancing the move to EMV chip technology in the United States, despite uncertainty concerning implementation of U.S. regulations governing debit.

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Princeton Junction, N.J., September 10, 2013 –The EMV Migration Forum’s Testing and Certification Working Committee has released a new resource outlining the current U.S. payment brand testing and certification requirements for acquirers, acquirer processors and direct connect merchants in the U.S. migration to EMV chip payments. The white paper, “Current U.S. Payment Brand Requirements for the Acquiring Community,” is available for free download at http://www.emv-connection.com/emv-testing-and-certification-acquiring-community-white-paper/.

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