Money movement and risk
Tokenisation
Replacing card details with a substitute "token" so the real number is never stored by the merchant, cutting fraud and PCI scope. **Scheme tokenisation** moves that token to the card scheme (Visa/Mastercard) itself, which can also shift a transaction into a cheaper interchange category.
Where this affects your bill
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