With experts predicting losses of nearly $10 billion for this year alone incidents of credit card fraud and related costs are on the rise.

These growing costs have prompted the credit card industry to reduce in-person counterfeit credit and debit card fraud by implementing CHIP or EMV (EuroPay, MasterCard and Visa) technology.

In addition to enhanced consumer protections, the introduction of CHIP/EMV technology protects the industry from a pending shift in the payment networks’ liability framework, which affects who is responsible for compensation costs for in-person fraudulent credit card transactions.

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