Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Eric's career includes extensive work in both public and corporate accounting with ...

U.S. banks are steadily shipping more secure chip-embedded credit and debit cards to consumers, but industry attention is also focused on whether merchants have installed updated payment terminals to ...

The rollout of smart-chip cards and chip reader in-store payment terminals in the U.S. hasn’t been easy — to put it mildly. Saturday, Oct. 1, marks a full year since banks and card companies mandated ...