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Bank card

 
Wikipedia: Bank card

In general, a bank card refers to a plastic card issued by a bank and used to access funds from an account, such as:

  • ATM card, a plastic card linked to one or many accounts, primarily for ATM usage but also useable at branches. An ATM card also useable for making payments at merchants is often called a debit card.
  • Credit card, a plastic card attached to a revolving credit line.
  • Debit card, a plastic card linked to a bank account.

As a brand, Bank card may refer to :

Bank cards as collectibles

As with collection of other magnetic cards, some collectors collect bank cards from various banks and locations. The bank cards collected are usually expired and cannot be used to perform any monetary activity. However, there is still private information on cards and some person not want to give expired cards to collectors.

Number of bank cards around the world by countries

China: 1,800,000,000 [1]

Russia: 119,019,000 [2]

  1. ^ http://www.pbc.gov.cn/detail.asp?col=100&ID=3189&keyword=%D6%A7%B8%B6
  2. ^ http://www.cbr.ru/eng/publ/BBS/Bbs0905e.pdf


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