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Mastercard Says Mag Stripe Will Be No More by 2033

Tim Sloane by Tim Sloane
August 17, 2021
in Analysts Coverage, Biometrics, Contactless, Credit, Debit
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Mastercard Says Mag Stripe Will Be No More by 2033

Mastercard Says Mag Stripe Will Be No More by 2033

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I still shop regularly at two stores that use the mag stripe.  Mastercard insists these will be abolished by 2033 and will start being phased out in the U.S. starting in 2027. We’ll see how that works out, I look forward to hearing the swoosh deadlines make as they go past:

“Mastercard is phasing out the use of magnetic stripes on its credit and debit cards over the next decade, as the industry moves towards more secure or convenient alternatives like chips and contactless payments, the company has announced. It says it will be the first payments network to phase out the technology, which dates back to the 1960s.

Mastercard says the transition will start in 2024 when the stripe will no longer be required on new cards in regions like Europe where chip cards are already widely used. In the US, where the adoption of chip payments has been slower, the transition will start in 2027. From 2029, no new Mastercard debit or credit cards will come with a magnetic stripe, and they’ll be gone completely by 2033.

THE MAGNETIC STRIPE WAS INVENTED IN THE 1960S

Magnetic stripes were a huge improvement over the flatbed imprinting machines (aka “knuckle-busters”) that cashiers used to have to use to record card details. But in the 1990s the global EMV chip standard was introduced, which paved the way for cardholder details to be held more securely on small integrated circuit chips embedded into cards. Nowadays, 86 percent of in-person card transactions globally use EMV chips. These are typically authenticated using a PIN, but biometric fingerprint authentication is also emerging as a more secure alternative.

Interestingly, the US hasn’t adopted EMV chips to the same extent as the rest of the world. Last year, the percentage of in-person card transactions using the technology in the country was lower at around 73 percent, despite efforts to encourage adoption. The US has historically been an outlier for a number of reasons, including its size and low fraud rates.”

Overview by Tim Sloane, VP, Payments Innovation at Mercator Advisory Group

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