A chip and PIN card is a credit card that includes microchip technology and a personal identification number (PIN) to securely verify a cardholder during a transaction. The embedded microchip is ...

Chip-and-PIN cards, which require customers to enter their personal identification number (PIN) to complete a transaction. Chip-and-signature cards, which use a signature instead of a PIN to ...

How to improve credit card security “Chip and PIN” cards — which combine a microchip with a personal identification number — are the norm in most of the rest of the world.

You’ll want to choose a credit card that will be widely accepted at your destination, with capabilities for contactless or ...

Chip cards are less vulnerable to skimming than magnetic stripe cards, but they aren’t completely safe. Crooks can still capture your card information from a chip card using a technique called ...

Financial institutions need to have all their customers using chip and PIN cards by 1 January 2005 which means a flurry of new cards are being posted out across the country to replace the old chip ...

The fraud-busting chip and PIN card technology is fast becoming the established method of card payment in the shops of Northampton, home to the UK's first trials of the system.