Do you know what EMV is, and how it might affect your e-commerce or retail business? Netbilling can provide some insight. Today, the company sent out the following helpful information about EMV, which stands for Europay, MasterCard, Visa.
EMV is the chip-based technology now being used by banks when they issue credit and debit cards. It is virtually impossible to duplicate these chip cards. International market migrations to EMV chip have proven that chip cards help reduce counterfeit fraud significantly. Although the magnetic stripe is still on the card itself, the EMV chip is secure and encrypted when used with the chip, rather than "swiping" the card. With security flaws in the current non-EMV-enabled system, the ability to steal a card or forge a signature is quite common. Technology has even become available on the black market for both reading and writing the magnetic stripes, making cards easy to clone and use without the owner's knowledge.
EMV use has been prevalent in Europe and other countries for some time now with great success in retail fraud reduction. EMV adoption in the USA has been slow. Until the major card data breaches over the past couple of years here in the U.S. from Target, Home Depot and others, there was no clear date for implementation in the United States, until recently. As of October 2015, ore than 500 million EMV compatible credit and debit/bank cards will have been issued to US citizens. Chances are you already have one in your wallet.
How Will EMV Implementation Effect E-commerce Merchants?
The shift to EMV compatible terminals in the USA for retail stores will certainly reduce card present transaction fraud. However, there is little doubt that as a result, online fraud will increase significantly. The payment card networks will shift liability for fraudulent transactions to the party to a transaction that has failed to deploy EMV technology, whether its the the card issuer or the merchant. That is intended to pressure both card issuers and merchants to make the investments necessary to move to chip card technology. This begins October 1, 2015.
In other words, if fraud happens on a credit or debit card and the merchant is not EMV-enabled, they could be liable for that charge and associated fees. So what does this mean for online retailers, adult and mainstream, in the U.S.? With in-store transactions presumably safer as more consumers use EMV-enabled cards, criminals will surely increase their efforts at targeting online retailers. In the E.U. and Australia, online fraud has increased 10 percent since they have implemented EMV.
This is an important reason for online merchants to tighten up their scrubbing using NETbilling's Fraud Defense tools, which are fully customizable.
NETbilling Helps Stop Online Fraud And Saves You $$$
The NETbilling payment gateway offers numerous Fraud Defense tools to help our e-commerce merchants fight online fraud. This is often called "fraud scrubbing." Your transactions are "scrubbed" based on more than a dozen filters that are in place that compare data including credit card numbers, email addresses, street addresses, IP addresses, bank bin numbers and many other factors. We have 18 years of data compiled including information on good and bad cards, as well as customer data that have previously charged back with a merchant in the NETbilling gateway and elsewhere. In the Fraud Defense setup within the NETbilling administration area, our merchants have the ability to select or unselect any fields that you may want to exclude when we scrub your transactions. The flexibility of our tools and customization ability gives NETbilling merchants an incredible way to combat online fraud.
The NETbilling Fraud Defense suite has proven time and time again to save you money by reducing fraud, disputes, and chargebacks. No other payment processor offers the same level of protection.
For more information, contact a NETbilling representative at [email protected] or (661) 252-2456.
For its retail clients, NETbilling offers a free EMV ready terminal through several partner banks.
For more information on the retail and EMV/NFC POS Terminals, email [email protected] or call to speak with a NETbilling representative at (888) 357-8166 or (661) 252-2456.
