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Old Dec 7, 2009 | 6:13 am
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Originally Posted by Roger
I think it may be more then that. I'm pretty sure the US banks have thought about the issue and decided that it wasn't worth introducing
A few US banks introduced them several years ago but they never took off, so they discontinued them.

Naturally the US chips weren't compatible with the chip readers in other countries...
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