It's complicated. U.S. EMV credit is (virtually) all chip and signature. Debit is split between PIN and signature. US Debit Common AID is Online PIN, but you can legally do PIN bypass ("no cvm") or even fall back (or have user select) the card brand's application on the card (instead of the US Debit Common AID), in which case for Visa it will be signature and for Mastercard it will be online PIN. Politics and posturing.
I've only ever seen one merchant (Target) that requires the chip. Every other store is still using the mag stripe. In fact, while travelling this weekend, I used my card in a dozen new stores. But none used the chip.
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Yes. Most new-ish deployments of chip-and-PIN using online PIN verification, such as Germany, Switzerland, Australia, and the U.S.
Isn't the US chip-and-signature?
It's complicated. U.S. EMV credit is (virtually) all chip and signature. Debit is split between PIN and signature. US Debit Common AID is Online PIN, but you can legally do PIN bypass ("no cvm") or even fall back (or have user select) the card brand's application on the card (instead of the US Debit Common AID), in which case for Visa it will be signature and for Mastercard it will be online PIN. Politics and posturing.
We are heading there, but very slowly.
I've only ever seen one merchant (Target) that requires the chip. Every other store is still using the mag stripe. In fact, while travelling this weekend, I used my card in a dozen new stores. But none used the chip.
in my experience, Walgreens, Home Depot and Walmart all require the chip when it is present now. At least with AMEX cards.
This the only implementation I've encountered in real-life, so far.
I have a few chip and pin cards and one chip and signature.