US Travelers Find Their Card Cards Sometimes Don't Work Overseas
In an article titled "For Americans, Plastic Buys Less Abroad", Michelle Higgins writes for the New York Times about how US-issued magnetic stripe credit cards lack a chip that is increasingly required at unattended POS locations in countries overseas. Higgins writes that "as more countries around the world move to chip-and-PIN cards, it’s inevitable that Americans will encounter more difficulties paying for things abroad."
Perhaps frequent American travellers can keep a 'spare' EMV card as some Americans did for their passports in older days - one for Israel visits and the other for visits to Middle East.
Why should the US issuers fall behind the Europeans? There is no good reason
Posted by: P K Sengupta | October 05, 2009 at 03:22 AM