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Today, all stores in the US should accept chip-and-PIN cards. Yeah, right.

Way back in 2012, MasterCard and Visa agreed that by October 1, 2015, every retailer in the United States would have to have new terminals that would accept chip-and-PIN cards, like those that were found in most of Europe, as well as in Australia, Brazil, and a variety of other countries. Those countries ditched magnetic stripe cards, like the ones the US uses primarily today, more than a decade ago to mitigate credit card fraud.

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Mastercard launches program that lets you pay with a smile or wave

The company's new biometrics program goes into testing soon.

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The magnetic stripe on your Mastercard will be gone in a decade's time

The company is phasing them out starting in 2024.

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Visa will soon allow Bitcoin payments to be made across 70 million merchants

Visa CEO Alfred Kelly plans announced that VISA users would soon be able to buy bitcoin on VISA and they will also work with bitcoin wallets.

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