Is Your New Chip-Card Really Safe?

GET.com Consumer News & Opinions View this email in your browser 10 May 2016 Is Your New Chip-Card Really Safe? GET.com has been chronicling the epic rollout of the new embedded-chip, or EMV, credit cards for some time now, and the process has not been pretty. We've reported that merchants have been slow to adopt the new technology, despite becoming responsible for card fraud (known as chargebacks) by... Read in browser Health Insurance Companies Refuse Credit Cards And Slash Perks - Is Obamacare To Blame? After reporting losses chalked up to the effect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois are cutting costs by refusing to accept credit cards to cover insurance bills. Starting June 1, policyholders will no longer be able pay for coverage using credit cards, whether... Read in browser Why Community College Is A Great Place To Launch A College Career In the United States, parents, schools and communities all press high school graduates to leap into the competitive miasma of prestigious 4-year universities, Top Ten football teams and social organizations approved by the Inter-Fraternity Council. Not every prospective college student, however,... Read in browser Could Wearable Tattoos Replace Credit Cards? Your next credit card could be a temporary tattoo. MC10 is one of many companies that's betting wearables will soon be the one-size-fits-all solution for everything from payments and medical diagnosis to physical security and fitness tracking. MC10 is developing a payment tattoo that will let... Read in browser Can't Get A Credit Card? Thank Government Regulations It's hard to gainsay credit cards. They make shopping convenient by freeing you from carrying around wads of cash, and they help you pay for big ticket items over a period of months. A 2014 Gallup survey found that 71 percent of Americans own at least one credit card. It sounds peachy keen,... Read in browser Everybody's Favorite Payment App Is Being Investigated Venmo is the leading peer-to-peer payment app, with more than $1 billion transferred monthly. Although Google Wallet, Snapchat's Snapcash and a number of other solutions offer nearly identical features, PayPal's Venmo is one of the most popular. But PayPal's peer-to-peer payment app is under... Read in browser Lending Club Scandal Signals Tough Times For Peer-to-Peer Lenders Lending Club is in hot water after a scandal involving $22 million worth of loans. The CEO and founder of the peer-to-peer lending platform Lending Club just stepped down after one of the company's investors found that the loans broke the company's own rules, according to Bloomberg News. In short,... Read in browser   Recent Articles: Next Mother's Day, Get Mom A Personal Financial Planner TechCrunch's Disrupt Conference Shaking New York - And Your Wallet Your Credit Card Company Might Soon Think Twice Before Making You Mad Copyright © 2016 GET.com, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you subscribed on GET.com (previously known as DailyMarkets.com). Our mailing address is: GET.com 14 Wall St 20 Fl New York, NY 10005 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list