Mastercard has announced plans to phase out the traditional 16-digit credit and debit card numbers by 2030. The company will replace them with on-device biometrics and tokenization to combat identity ...

Mastercard and Visa want to do away with you putting in your credit card number for online purchases. Conway Gittens: I’m Conway Gittens reporting from the New York Stock Exchange. Here’s what we’re ...

Mastercard Inc. is expanding its efforts to eliminate the use of credit card numbers when customers make purchases online in a bid to fight fraud. A decade after it first unveiled a technology that ...

The numbers on a credit card help identify the credit card network, the company that issued the card and the cardholder. Credit card numbers are either 15 or 16 digits, with each digit having its own ...