Credit Card Glossary: Terms and Definitions
Truncation
The habit of merchants to display only some digits of a customer’s credit card number on a sales draft or receipt, in order to provide better security while still enabling identification (for the cardholder) of the card used. Truncation has been required by federal law since 2006. By law, no more than the last five digits of a debit or credit card may be shown on a receipt.
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