
Identify the five actors in a chip card transaction: cardholder, merchant, acquirer, payment network, and issuer. Explain how the acquirer, network, and BIN route payments globally.
Identify and explain the three payment transaction life-cycle stages—authorisation, clearing, and settlement—and trace how an authorisation travels from cardholder to issuer via the network and acquirer to the merchant.
Compare magstripe and chip-based transactions, showing how static data enables cloning and replay, while chip-based cards use dynamic data, risk assessment, offline and online approvals, and strong cryptography.
Explore how cryptography builds trust in EMV transactions by protecting data, creating a chain of trust between card, terminal, issuer, and network, using symmetric and asymmetric keys.
Trace the document specifications behind chip card transactions, from ISO 7816 to EMV level 1 and level 2. See how EMV books and vendor programs shape network interoperability.
Explore how a payment chip card works, from its security-hardened microchip and ISO 7816 pin layout to power-up sequences, contact and contactless interfaces, and onboard processing, memory, and software.
Compare closed and open chip card platforms, from masking and C/assembly to Java card VM, and learn how a hardware abstraction layer and firewall protect multiple applications on the chip.
Explore how payment applications reside on a chip card as a file system with a root folder and offline PIN. Note personalisation, data injection, and EMV Level 2 compliance.
Discover how a payment terminal works, from the emv kernel and host communication to terminal management and test versus live modes, keys, and connection options.
Explore the terminal entry modes for chip card transactions, including voice authorization, manual entry, magnetic stripe, ICC with contacts, and contactless options.
Explore cardholder verification methods (CVM) and how terminals select the highest-priority option from issuer lists, including no CVM, signature, offline PIN, and online PIN; understand how merchant configurations influence process.
Begin your journey into the exciting world of EMV with the 1st module of our flagship course 'Fast track to EMV transaction expertise", and learn how payment chip cards and terminals work.
EMV Module 1 is a high-level course that paints the big picture of card payment and teaches how chip cards and payment terminals work.
This 1st module is not very technical, and can be taken by anyone who wants to start a journey towards EMV transaction expertise.
The EMV Module 1 course starts with the big picture: the non-technical, high-level information. Then students look at how a chip card works and at how a payment terminal works, because it is important to understand how they interact.