Monday, October 5, 2009
JSTD: Credit card chips
Be prepared to take more cash and travelers checks on your trips abroad. Apparently, more and more overseas retailers are only accepting credit cards with chip-and-PIN technology. Unfortunately, the vast majority of American banks rely on magnetic stripe technology and they have no plans to change any time soon. See the N.Y. Times article here.
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