Prolonged exposure to magnets can affect the functionality of your credit card. Cards with magnetic strips can also become demagnetized due to dirt, scratches and other damage. EMV chip technology has ...

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If you use refrigerator magnets or magnetic business cards to aid in your marketing efforts, it could be more convenient and cost-saving to print these items yourself rather than purchase them.

Though the validity period of your debit, credit and pre-paid cards may not run out for few years, the magnetic strip cards issued by Europay, MasterCard and Visa may not work in the country from ...

Banks and financial institutions are gradually replacing the existing debit, credit and pre-paid magnetic strip cards with chip-based cards, but none of the automatic teller machines in the country ...