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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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