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EMV payment firm? Ideally, it’s customer facing and can detect when a chip card is swiped, prompting the customer to insert the card instead. Proper EMV processing protects businesses from bank-initiated chargebacks. Simple enough, right? It’s actually not. Every terminal must go through extensive testing to become EMV certified. Let’s get these levels of EMV certification explained.

EMV initially prevented fraudulent “card-present” transactions because the chip card, which encrypts the data and generates a unique transaction code for each purchase, was considered extremely difficult to duplicate. However, in 2018, crooks in Brazil were the first to figure out how to create valid EMV duplicates. See 3-D Secure.

EMV vs. Magnetic Stripe Transactions. Unlike magnetic stripe transactions, where typically only the card’s track 2 data containing the card number and expiry date is processed, every chip card transaction contain dozens of pieces of information to be exchanged between the card, the terminal and the acquiring bank or processors host.

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