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Sep 9, 2014 | 6:47 pm

#6772

AllieKat

Join Date: Nov 2012

Posts: 3,537

Quote:

Originally Posted by tmiw

Why new "chip-and-pin" cards won't protect you -- yet

In other rollouts it was the other way around, right? The US may be the only market where the cards are actually fully swapped out before the terminals.

Hence why it only works on certain carriers?

Yes, I believe the US is the only market where merchants are widely choosing to actually disable EMV (and contactless) on their shiny new EMV-capable terminals.

Apple Pay may be the incentive needed to get contactless enabled, and EMV may come along with it.