One of many ways that Americans are ridiculed by the rest of the world is that they don’t have chip and PIN on their credit cards yet; US credit card companies have been slow to bring this ...

Traveling abroad? You may have been told you need a chip-and-PIN credit card, but that may no longer be true. Here's why.

Four years ago, about a dozen credit cards equipped with chip-and-PIN technology were stolen in France. In May 2011, a banking group noticed that those stolen cards were being used in Belgium ...

Chip-and-PIN readers can be tricked into accepting transactions without a valid personal identification number, opening the door to fraud, researchers have found. Researchers at Cambridge ...

Coming to a shop near you: Chip and PIN cards Still, getting tens of millions of new cards in the hands of consumers, and then making sure millions of merchants can process them is a mammoth ...

The decision to deploy EMV chip-and-signature credit cards in the U.S., instead of the chip-and-PIN model common in other countries, has a lot to do with technology constraints.

The government has proposed adding chip-and-PIN capabilities to ID cards, but questions remain over whether such a move would be beneficial — or even possible — at this late stage in the £4 ...

Chip-and-PIN transactions are supposed to be far more secure than transactions using credit and debit cards based on traditional magnetic stripe technology and signature-based authentication. Chip ...

Chip-and-PIN cards, which require customers to enter their personal identification number (PIN) to complete a transaction.

Banks are 'encouraging' fraudsters to steal 'billions' of pounds from customers by denying that exploits in chip and pin systems are possible - and the watchdog is allowing them to do it, a ...