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Old Jun 30, 2014, 3:17 pm
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Originally Posted by kebosabi
If Chase Freedom (and other Chase cards that we haven't heard of) indeed comes with EMV, it's probably more along the lines of Chase getting out EMV credit cards out in preparation for the US EMV switchover so as to shift fraud liability over to non-compliant merchants, not because of international travel concerns.
As for as @ChaseSupport on Twitter is aware, there's a plan to *eventually* convert all cards to EMV, but nothing even close to resembling a timetable.
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