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Magnetic Stripe

When a credit card company issues a credit card they put a stripe of magnetic information affixed to the back of a plastic credit or debit card.  This magnetic stripe contains customer and account information required to complete electronic financial transactions. The physical and magnetic characteristics of this stripe are specified in the International Organization for Standardization standards 7810, 7811, and 7813.


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