EMV cards begin to filter into market

By PAUL DELANEY

Staff Reporter

With credit card fraud striving to become the national pastime of the criminal element, financial institutions are in the process of fighting back.

Their weapons of choice are credit and debit cards with a funny-looking metallic splotch called an EMV chip. EMV stands for Europay, MasterCard and Visa, the three companies that originally created the standard.

As the Christmas buying season is upon customers across the United States, some will have the enhanced card and some not. The same holds true locally.

"We're in the friends and family pilot stage," Cheney Fede...