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Standard · Cards · EMVCo
EMV
Family of specifications for chip-based payment cards and acceptance devices, covering contact and contactless transactions, payment tokenisation and QR code payments. Managed by EMVCo, which is jointly owned by American Express, Discover, JCB, Mastercard, UnionPay and Visa.
- Category
- Cards
- Steward organization
- EMVCo
- Scope
- Chip, contactless and tokenized card payment technology
- Status
- Active
- Machine-readable
- Primarily documentation for humans
- Official source
- www.emvco.com
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This standard belongs to EMVCo. Banking Foundation documents it for reference with attribution and links to the official source — always rely on the steward's current text.
Approximate reference data from public sources · seed-0.1 · 2026-08-28 · not real-time, not advice. See data & methodology.
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