Where has EMV been adopted?
EMV has been implemented in more than 80 countries around the world, with approximately 1.5 billion EMV cards issued globally and 21.9 million POS terminals accepting EMV cards at the end of 2011. The U.S. payments infrastructure is now moving to EMV adoption with approximately 70 percent of credit cards and 40 percent of debit cards in the U.S. –1.1 billion cards total that will support EMV by the end of 2015. The United States is one of the last countries to migrate to EMV with 59 percent of US retail locations supporting EMV by the end of 2015.
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