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Mastercard plans to get rid of credit card numbers. We could be heading towards the end of cards

  • Written by Gary Mortimer, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Mastercard has announced plans to remove the 16-digit number from their credit and debit cards by 2030 in a move designed to stamp out identity theft and fraudulent use of cards.

The numbers currently used to identify cards will be replaced with tokenisation and biometric authentication

In 2022, Mastercard added biometric...

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