Washington, Aug. 10 2016 — Reducing credit and debit card fraud by implementing EMV chip card acceptance has become retailers’ top payment issue in 2016, but retailers are also busy with new data security enhancements such as point-to-point encryption and tokenization to better protect payment card data. That’s according to a new study released today by the National Retail Federation and Forrester that surveys CIOs and technology executives at 59 large and mid-sized retail companies and is the first partnership between the two that focuses on retail industry payment issues.