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The EMV liability has officially shifted, and plenty of businesses have not switched over to fancy new terminals yet. If you’re one of those businesses, we understand. You want the best EMV terminals for your business, but you don’t have enough time to ensure that 1) you’re getting the best hardware, and 2) you’re getting a […]

Searching for a Merchant Cash Advance (MCA), those lump-sum loans paid back daily through debit and credit card sales, can be a time-consuming experience. With so many providers out there, how do you even begin to find the good ones? Worry no more—we at Merchant Maverick are here to help. Here are some useful tips to […]

Have you noticed that your customers are becoming confused when they see your antiquated terminal? Do they comically attempt to jab their card into your terminal instead of swiping? No, these are not aliens who are unused to our peculiar ways—they’re customers with a new, ultra secure chip credit card, and they want to use […]

The shift to EMV technology isn’t just affecting payments in-stores—due to the increased difficulty of fraud in-stores, many people are expecting that there will be an increase in card-not-present (CNP) fraud. We’ve already talked about how business owners can avoid fraudulent purchases for the present moment. But don’t get too attached. New, supposedly more secure methods […]

As we trundle ever-closer to total chip-card domination, the experts are predicting that – as happened in other countries who adopted EMV technology – the majority of fraud is going to migrate away from counterfeit and stolen cards, and towards the easier target: card-not-present (CNP) fraud. As usual, for business owners, this is a good […]

The recent shift to chip-based cards has got everybody thinking about fraud, so perhaps now is a good time to go over the types of fraud that you should be on the lookout for as a business owner. The good news is, in every other country where chip-and-PIN cards have been introduced, card-present fraud has […]

The EMV liability shift is well underway and customers have started dipping those cards. At this point, most small business owners are probably wondering why the heck everybody is talking about chip-and-PIN cards when everybody seems to be using chip-and-signature. What’s the difference between chip-and-PIN and chip-and-signature cards? We’ve briefly mentioned this before, but if you […]

After four years in the making, the national EMV (Europay, Mastercard, and Visa) liability shift has finally come to pass. Starting today – on October 1st, 2015 – merchants with out-of-date credit card readers can now be held liable for certain types of fraud, specifically the types of fraud which could have been avoided by […]