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Chip-enabled cards may curb fraud, but consumers will be picking up the tab

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imageUS credit cards are starting to get a new look. Reuters

Most of us have by now received new credit cards in the mail embedded with “EMV” (Europay-MasterCard-Visa) chips. Merchants across the country have been hastily investing large amounts of money in new EMV-compliant terminals.

This is because today marks the moment that retailers...

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