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Old Jul 17, 2016 | 2:13 pm
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Originally Posted by storewanderer
Staples receipts are showing limited information. But I am confident they are processing EMV Contactless Chip Cards as EMV Contactless (not MSD) based on the transaction speed.

I will go try with Android pay and see how long it takes to process a transaction using it...

The speed of an EMV Contactless transaction is remarkable and when you have one of these transactions, you know it.
Speed isn't a good indicator of that though. Issuers/processors could have easily eliminated or optimized some of the anti-fraud checking surrounding MSD too.
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