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The golden metal plate

and cards in transition

The cash- and credit cards availiable on the payment market today are put in a technical process to change. The familiar structure with a magnet strip on the backside of the card is to be replaced by a small golden metal plate - a chip. Today it is very common to have both a magnetic strip and a chip, but in due time, the magnetic strip will disappear, worldwide.
The initiative of this change has been taken by Europay, MasterCard and VISA. The chip-technique is therefor called EMV.

Read more about this here (in Swedish)

PAN-Nordic Card Association är en organisation för banker verksamma i den nordiska kortindustrin. PAN-Nordic Card Association är verksam i Sverige, Danmark, Norge, Finland och i de baltiska länderna. Organisationen bistår med information som stöder ambitionen att utveckla kortmarknaden. Medlemmarna är Nordea Bank, SWEDBANK, Danske Bank, Svenska Handelsbanken, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, Visa Sweden Förening, Föreningen Europay Sweden, PBS AS.