EMV Chip Enabled Credit Cards

The chip card is more secure than the magnetic stripe card. Chip cards add an additional layer of security to the precautions that are already put in place to safeguard your money.

The biggest benefit of the EMV chip card is the reduction of in-store card fraud that results in counterfeit, lost, and stolen cards. Each time you use your chip card, it generates a new code that is unique to that particular transaction. This makes it harder to counterfeit a card or use it fraudulently for in-store purchases.

While chip cards won’t prevent the type of large-scale data breaches that have hit some merchants, they do make it extremely difficult to produce counterfeit cards from that stolen data.

The chip contains information pertaining to your individual account and the card expiration date. It also generates a unique code for every transaction when used with a chip-enables terminal at the point-of-sale.

Yes. Chip cards can be used anywhere Visa is accepted in the US and around the world. If a merchant has a chip-enabled card terminal, you will insert your card during the transaction. In the US, you will still be able to “swipe” your card to make a payment if a merchant has a regular terminal, just as you do today.

Yes. There is no change to this process.

Yes. Your card will have both a chip and a magnetic stripe to accommodate ATMs that are either EMV-enabled or not.

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