Forget signing your name on Watch A Wife's Secret (2014)credit and debit card purchases with Discover.

Starting in April, the credit card company won't require a signature after buying something in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Caribbean.

Chip technology -- along with biometrics and multi-factor authentication -- has made signing a receipt a redundant security measure. MasterCard announced it was ditching signatures back in October.

Discover said the change may require some merchants to change their Discover point-of-sales systems since pens and electronic signature screens won't be necessary.

With these two companies dumping signatures, other big credit card companies like Visa and American Express could follow suit.