Overview#

Primary Account Number (PAN) is the REAL Bank Card Number on your Payment Card which which is typically embedded in a primitive magnetic stripe on the back and, just for good measure, typically embossed on the front.

Payment Tokens are not Primary Account Numbers even though they are Bank Card Numbers

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Apple Pay
• Attribution
• Cardholder Data
• EMVCo Tokenization
• Google Pay
• Integrated Circuit Card Identifier
• Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number
• PAN

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• [#1] - How Apple Pay Really Works and Why You Should Begin Using it Immediately - based on 2015-02-09