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Optimizing Transaction Speed at the POS

October 24, 2017

With the U.S. payments industry’s ongoing migration to EMV chip technology for more secure payments, the U.S. Payments Forum continues to identify and provide guidance on the areas essential to improving and optimizing secure EMV transactions. As chip cards continue to be issued and chip-enabled terminals continue to appear at merchant locations across the U.S., many cardholders and merchants are having varied responses to their chip transaction experiences. A common response heard across the industry is the inconsistent speed observed during an EMV transaction, where a chip transaction might take a couple seconds at one merchant but 20 or more seconds at another.

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