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• Smart Card Alliance Launches EMV Forum

  By David Morrison  |  August 12, 2012

  The Smart Card Alliance, an industry group organized to promote wider use of cards enabled with computer chips, is starting a forum designed to facilitate the implementation of cards with chips in the U.S.

• FINRA Fee Increases May Raise Sticker Price on Financial Advice

  By William H. Byrnes, Esq., and Robert Bloink, Esq., LL.M.  |  August 2, 2012

  FINRA’s proposed 25% increase in the fees that it collects from financial service firms may become a reality within the next few months.

• Smart Card Alliances Launches EMV Forum

  By David Morrison  |  July 31, 2012

  New group to help chip card integration.

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  Cards: PINs vs. Signatures Sparks Industry Debate

  By David Morrison  |  April 29, 2012

  As the payment industry begins to move toward replacing magnetic stripe cards with cards that use embedded smart chips, credit unions and other card issuers will have to eventually decide whether they will issue cards that use personal identification numbers or signatures to validate transactions.

• Credit Union Awards

  By Andrew Corselli  |  March 19, 2012

  Accomplishments at credit unions recognized.

• Durbin Cap Repeal Pushed by Congressmen

  By David Morrison  |  October 17, 2011

  Two legislators have announced they will file a bipartisan bill in the House to repeal the Durbin amendment and remove its cap on debit card interchange.

• NCUA Reluctant to Change NCUSIF Operating Level

  By Claude R. Marx  |  March 17, 2010

  Although the majority of NCUA Board members are Democrats, when it comes to the question of lowering the NCUSIF's operating level,