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Credit Cards

ALSO CALLED: Bank Credit Cards and Charge Cards
DEFINITION: Chip and PIN is a UK government-backed initiative to implement the EMV (short for Europay, Mastercard and Visa) standard for smart payment cards. A similar effort is also underway in the Republic of Ireland. The name of this initiative stems from the presence of a semiconductor chip  … 
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CREDIT CARDS DEFINITION (continued): …  and associated circuitry in the smart card, which is used in tandem with a PIN (personal identification number) .

In use, the smart card is placed into a PIN pad terminal or modified swipe-card reader, which accesses the chip in the card. The user enters a 4-digit PIN that is checked against the information stored on the card. If the entered PIN matches the stored value, the transaction is permitted to proceed.

Chip and PIN went through a pilot test … 
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