USA issuers announce EMV cards (Chip & PIN -or- Chip & Signature).
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I have a Citibank Singapore chip-and-signature EMV card. It caused a lot of confusion in Europe when it was a chip card that wanted a signature, and again in New Zealand as they started their EMV rollout.
Only time I recall it failing in Europe was trying to buy rail tickets at AMS, where my mag-only cards also didn't work.
Only time I recall it failing in Europe was trying to buy rail tickets at AMS, where my mag-only cards also didn't work.
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Issuing EMV cards without a PIN will probably solve 90% of the problems that Americans experience overseas. The only situations they will not solve is if the terminal is programmed to only accept PIN authentication and nothing else - then the card cannot be used.
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I thought this is what the earlier poster was talking about when entering all 0's? Why would a terminal that is EMV-sign-aware even ask for a PIN in the first place?
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Politically it's also ideal for consumers. We can allow the upgrade to EMV/sign, but then later reject the banks attempt to downgrade to chip-pin. The banks would still try to sell PIN use as a convenience, but it would be obvious to more consumers that it's an attempt to shift legal protection.
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I don't anticipate that US card issuers will want to encourage use of PINs for domestic credit card transactions because they have created a huge revenue distinction between signature and PIN based authentication. US banks encourage customers to use debit cards with a signature rather than with a PIN because they earn far less on PIN transactions. If banks begin to offer PIN based credit card transactions the large national merchants will want to renegotiate their card acceptance agreements to reflect a similar discount.
Chip and Signature allows Chase to offer a large degree of international compatibility, without the risk of losing enormous domestic revenue.
Chip and Signature allows Chase to offer a large degree of international compatibility, without the risk of losing enormous domestic revenue.
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If it doesn't work in unattended kiosks, then I'm not sure what good it is for consumers. Unattended kiosks, from what I understand, are the main problem, not a tangential problem. (Perhaps because there are many more ways to work around a seeming unacceptance of swipe when there's a human involved, but no ways to work around it other than chip&pin AFAIK when there's no human in sight.)
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How? Isn't 90% of the problems that American experience overseas with unatteneded koisks and such? (Merchants you can talk to face to face can usually take the swipe, though many seem not know it until they try.) How does putting a chip&signature card into a kiosk that expects a PIN as the security verification work? Are you told to put in a specific "generic" PIN for that card type?
If it doesn't work in unattended kiosks, then I'm not sure what good it is for consumers. Unattended kiosks, from what I understand, are the main problem, not a tangential problem. (Perhaps because there are many more ways to work around a seeming unacceptance of swipe when there's a human involved, but no ways to work around it other than chip&pin AFAIK when there's no human in sight.)
If it doesn't work in unattended kiosks, then I'm not sure what good it is for consumers. Unattended kiosks, from what I understand, are the main problem, not a tangential problem. (Perhaps because there are many more ways to work around a seeming unacceptance of swipe when there's a human involved, but no ways to work around it other than chip&pin AFAIK when there's no human in sight.)
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In related EMV news, Cardiff Holdings, one of the largest card personalization companies in the US has just applied for EMV certification. Nice to know card manufacturers are starting to prep up for manufacturing of chipped cards. ^
How quickly things are moving is surprising. Just a year ago, many here were balking that the US would ever move to EMV and that it’d take years to happen. Looks like I only needed a less than a year's worth of sleep.
Now if only high speed rail could be built just as fast...
How quickly things are moving is surprising. Just a year ago, many here were balking that the US would ever move to EMV and that it’d take years to happen. Looks like I only needed a less than a year's worth of sleep.
Now if only high speed rail could be built just as fast...
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Wal-Mart is now active with its Chip-and-PIn terminals
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has now enabled all of its U.S. stores with terminals to accept chip cards
Other interesting points in the same article:
Wal-Mart enthusiastic about moving toward EMV payments and applauds Chase and Wells Fargo's decision to start issuing them, but is skeptical about their limited issuance. Agreed. It seems that Chase and Wells Fargo assumes only the uber-rich jetsetters travel internationally. Have they considered many people living in Detroit, Buffalo, and Seattle drive across the border to Canada for vacation quite often?
And again, the lame argument " 'Why should [banks] spend $1 or $2 [on EMV cards] if they only get 12 cents back...If you’re a bank, what’s the value of the investment?' ”
What then about considering an optional system where a customer has the option to call their bank to upgrade their card to a hybrid Chip-and-PIN/mag-stripe/RFID card for a nominal fee to cover that issuance cost?
Finally, the point about the cost of changing terminals. "Some 70% to 80% of VeriFone Systems Inc. terminal shipments into retail stores are not EMV-capable...we’re still shipping a lot of terminals without smart card readers,” he told the conference. Cost is the main barrier...large merchants whose names you would recognize are choosing not to install [readers] because of the [incremental] price."
However the counter-argument can be made is that terminals, just like any other machine, has its end of life and by then terminals will become pre-equipped with handing RFID and EMV payments along with mag-stripes.
Just look at 7-Eleven, BestBuy, Staples, and heck even the US Post Office. I see terminals being replaced all over LA with newer terminals as they replace their aging ones. Like upgrading a software, you're not going to see merchants upgrading their computers overnight. It takes time, but as time progresses, there will be more and more merchants using terminals that already come pre-equipped with handling multi-payment processing.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has now enabled all of its U.S. stores with terminals to accept chip cards
Other interesting points in the same article:
Wal-Mart enthusiastic about moving toward EMV payments and applauds Chase and Wells Fargo's decision to start issuing them, but is skeptical about their limited issuance. Agreed. It seems that Chase and Wells Fargo assumes only the uber-rich jetsetters travel internationally. Have they considered many people living in Detroit, Buffalo, and Seattle drive across the border to Canada for vacation quite often?
And again, the lame argument " 'Why should [banks] spend $1 or $2 [on EMV cards] if they only get 12 cents back...If you’re a bank, what’s the value of the investment?' ”
What then about considering an optional system where a customer has the option to call their bank to upgrade their card to a hybrid Chip-and-PIN/mag-stripe/RFID card for a nominal fee to cover that issuance cost?
Finally, the point about the cost of changing terminals. "Some 70% to 80% of VeriFone Systems Inc. terminal shipments into retail stores are not EMV-capable...we’re still shipping a lot of terminals without smart card readers,” he told the conference. Cost is the main barrier...large merchants whose names you would recognize are choosing not to install [readers] because of the [incremental] price."
However the counter-argument can be made is that terminals, just like any other machine, has its end of life and by then terminals will become pre-equipped with handing RFID and EMV payments along with mag-stripes.
Just look at 7-Eleven, BestBuy, Staples, and heck even the US Post Office. I see terminals being replaced all over LA with newer terminals as they replace their aging ones. Like upgrading a software, you're not going to see merchants upgrading their computers overnight. It takes time, but as time progresses, there will be more and more merchants using terminals that already come pre-equipped with handling multi-payment processing.
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In other news, UNFCU reports significant jumps in applications for their EMV enabled VISA Elite cards at yesterday's Smart Card Alliance Annual Conference, highlighting a case that demand and customer frustration for mag-stripe only cards are there.
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There was even a trainee there who was being taught by another employee saying “you’re lucky you’re working at a 7-Eleven near the airport; you’re getting the first hand training on how to accept the newer cards that tourists have.”
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Hopefully I can change my Euro card to a Chip & PIN card before it expires. Amex can be a nuisance to use in Europe, especially without a chip.