Visa requires all US processors to support acceptance of EMV cards by 04/01/2013, to prepare the ground for the arrival of NFC-based mobile payments....
Far from going extinct, as headlines in the past year have proclaimed, credit cards are at the core of the m-payments wave currently sweeping the US....
The aggregate volume of US consumer credit card debt rose by 7.9%, or $5.2B, in June, the fastest rate since March 2008, lifting the total to $798.3B....