Payments, ATMs, Cards: Five Things I Know I Don’t Know…Sorta

[Originally published on LinkedIn November 4th, 2014] 1. ‘Will EMV at ATMs be ‘ready’ in the United States before the liability deadlines?’ Maybe. The domestic liability shifts (remember that the liability shift for inter-regional Maestro ATM transactions actually went into effect on April 19, 2014) for MasterCard are scheduled for October 2016. Visa’s liability shift

Digital Education: Learning to Fly or Jump, Before You’re at 30k Feet

It’s been less than six months since Walmart in our area flipped the switch for EMV credit cards, and so far I am unimpressed with how they’ve handled it: [WM Cashier] “That’ll be $xx ma’am/sir, go ahead and swipe your card.” [Customer does so] [WM Cashier sees the ‘alert’ on terminal screen and franticly grabs