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EMV Level 3 testing and certifications services? Ideally, it’s customer facing and can detect when a chip card is swiped, prompting the customer to insert the card instead. Proper EMV processing protects businesses from bank-initiated chargebacks. Simple enough, right? It’s actually not. Every terminal must go through extensive testing to become EMV certified. Let’s get these levels of EMV certification explained.

EMV cards were never designed to prevent fraud when credit card numbers are stolen and used online (“card-not-present”). However, they were intended to be more secure than fraudulent magnetic stripe cards. Credit card data can be illegally captured at point-of-sale terminals and easily copied onto blank stripe cards with an encoder (see skimming).

To understand more about some of the terminology used in EMV we’ve compiled a useful Glossary of Terms. Card scheme defines their own requirements for contactless cards that comply with that scheme’s specifications, please take a look at our more detailed World of Contactless.

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