Merchants will face more than 260 million chargebacks worth $5.8 million this year, according to a new study from Boston-based Aite Group.
The increases – 17 percent more transactions and 21 percent more in dollar volume – come after the liability shift last fall for EMV or chip cards moved to merchants for in-store terminals, according to a CSP Daily News article.
Merchants must adopt chip-card technology to avoid liability.
The study also found an increase in credit card fraud.