The chip payment standard used on modern cards and terminals falls under a specification called “EMV”, which was name after the three companies that made the standard - Europay, MasterCard and Visa.
Europay merged with MasterCard in 2002.
Source: used to write software to validate and test EMV.
Also the US payment systems and the European payment systems are identical (same standard) but implemented badly in the US, that’s why it’s much faster in Europe. I have several war stories about all this.
The actual answer: they did.
The chip payment standard used on modern cards and terminals falls under a specification called “EMV”, which was name after the three companies that made the standard - Europay, MasterCard and Visa.
Europay merged with MasterCard in 2002.
Source: used to write software to validate and test EMV.
Also the US payment systems and the European payment systems are identical (same standard) but implemented badly in the US, that’s why it’s much faster in Europe. I have several war stories about all this.