The US added more than 100.000 chip-enabled merchant locations in June 2016, bringing the total to 1.3 million, or about 28% of the total merchant population, according to Visa, nfcworld.com reports.
More than three-quarters of those chip-ready locations are small and medium-sized businesses. In June, 2016 one in four dollars spent in-store on a Visa card was spent with a chip card in a chip terminal.
The number of Visa chip payment transactions reached 483 million in June 2016.
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