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Credit Card Signing Ends in 2015

THE FUTURE

Instead, you'll enter a PIN.

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No one wants your autograph anymore. MasterCard and Visa have announced that they'll be phasing out the swipe-and-sign credit card practice by late next year. Instead, customers will enter a PIN number. The U.S. is home to around one quarter of all credit-card transactions but half the world's credit card fraud, due in part to the signing system.

Read it at The Wall Street Journal