Advisories

EMVCo Advisories are designed to make financial institutions, vendors, and other interested parties aware of any important Best Practices, issues and problems stemming from field implementations of EMV and EMVCo Working Group activities. Advisories may also result from issues reported by Payment Systems as well as issues/questions posed to EMVCo from vendors and financial institutions.

Effective Date Version Description View Download
December
2008
1.1 Recommendations for EMV Processing for Industry-Specific Transaction Types
This document describes a recommended approach to handling certain types of EMV-enabled transactions and environments including integrated POS and stand alone terminals
August
2007
1.0 Optimising Contact Chip Transaction Times
Final Version
June
2006
N.A. Guide to EMV Processing for Industry-Specific Transaction Types - Disposition of Comments
This document provides a list of the comments received by EMVCo for enhancements to the “Guide to EMV Processing for Industry-Specific Transaction Types” and used as input in the development of “Recommendations EMV Processing for Industry-Specific Transaction Types”.
April
2006
r8 EMVCo Terminal Vendor Performance Self-Assessment Survey
April
2006
r2 Terminal Performance Test Data