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Gary Mortimer, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology

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

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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

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