U.S. To Switch to Chip & Pin Credit Cards by 2015 -- Design News

By October 2015, the swipe and sign credit card system will be mostly extinct. U.S. credit card companies will be switching to a chip & PIN system, like much of the rest of the world. A quarter of all credit card transactions happen in the U.S., but we have half of the instances of credit card fraud, and it's mostly attributed to the swipe and sign method.