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Title: Visa to follow Apple Pay’s lead, use tokens for mobile & online payments
Post by: HCK on February 13, 2015, 09:00:23 pm
Visa to follow Apple Pay’s lead, use tokens for mobile & online payments

Following Apple Pay’s successful use of tokens—one-time-use, unique codes rather than credit card numbers for payment transactions—Visa today announced that it will remove 16-digit account numbers for mobile and online payments across 2015. No specific date was given for the transition; instead, Visa suggests that tokens will begin to replace credit card numbers as the […]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=365207&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />

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