What is the deal with EMV Credit Card Processing?

Guest post by Ben Ford of American Payment Solutions, a locally owned and operated merchant processing company. You’ve probably heard talk of EMV with increasing regularity over the past several months. This new regulation seems to be creating a sizable knot in the stomachs of most business owners. It’s doubly scary because it is being advertised as the key to credit card security. With breaking news of new credit card data breaches every time we turn around, and deadlines for implementation of EMV set for 2015, it’s understandable that EMV is the topic everyone both does and doesn’t want to [...]