Number's up: why your next credit card might not have any digits | Gary Mortimer and Cassandra Cross for the Conversation

With tokenisation and biometric authentication on the rise, Mastercard plans to remove the 16-digit number from their credit and debit cards

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.

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