While American credit cards use the 40-year-old magstripe technology to process transactions, much of the rest of the world uses smarter cards with a technology called EMV ( short for Europay, MasterCard, Visa) that employs a chip embedded in the card plus a customer PIN ( personal identification number) to authenticate every transaction on the spot.
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