American Express can help you enable EMV chip cards and terminals which are based on the EMVCo* industry standard set of specifications for chip cards and terminals.
EMV chip cards have an embedded microprocessor chip which increases transaction security by exchanging authentication data with terminals. This makes the chip cards difficult to counterfeit and effectively combats fraud at the point of sale.
* EMVCo is standards body for contact and contactless EMV (Europay Mastercard Visa) specifications and is jointly owned by American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard, Unionpay, Visa.
Chip cards and terminals help business in many ways:
Help protect your business against fraud
American Express chip cards and terminal specifications help protect against the impacts of fraud by:
Strengthen relationships with your customers
With American Express chip cards and terminals, you have the ability to better serve your customers by:
Leverage a global standard in card-present security
When you migrate to EMV, you can be confident that you are:
At the point of sale, chip cards and terminals interact to ensure a secure transaction.
Card Approval
When the chip Card is inserted into the terminal, the embedded microchip exchanges Card data with the terminal to verify the Card is genuine.
Card Member Verification
The Card Member's identity is verified with PIN or Signature and the results of verification can be sent to the Issuer along with additional security information.
Transaction Authorization
The microchip and terminal interact to assess the transaction details, providing Issuers and Merchants better ability to mitigate risk on every purchase.
Amex Quick Chip can help streamline the point of sale experience in contact card transactions
An error occurred while transmitting your feedback. We apologize for the inconvenience, please try again later.
Thank you for completing the feedback form. Your comments have been submitted successfully.
Click on one of the options to learn more about how Knowledge Base works
 |
 |
 |
| Six minute Video | Interactive Guide | FAQs |
Watch this short video to learn how Knowledge Base works. |
Navigate through the interactive guide to learn about each feature. |
Answers to frequently asked questions about using Knowledge Base. |
Homepage
The homepage includes 4 tabbed areas that enables access to Knowledge Base’s features:
1) My Messages
This tab allows access to network messages and messages that are specific to the users organization.
2) Services
This tab allows access to the services that a user has enrolled in and access to the service enrollment page.
3) Bookmarks
This area allows access to the users specific bookmarks.
4) Explore
This is a visualization of the content available on Knowledge Base
Service Enrollment
Service Enrollment
This page lists all the services that you’re not currently enrolled in. You can expand each section to find out more and read about the features in more detail.
If there’s a service you need access, you can start the enrollment process from here.
(Please note that each requested service requires business justification and your manager’s approval).
