What is a credit card in France?

In France, a credit card ( carte de crédit) either refer to a standard card provided by a bank, or a card provided by an account in partnership with a private company. In this second case, these cards can only be used in this company's stores and selling points.

What is a IC card based credit card?

The majority of smart card (IC card) based credit cards comply with the EMV (Europay MasterCard Visa) standard. Second, an additional 3 or 4 digit card security code (CSC) or card verification value (CVV) is now present on the back of most cards, for use in card not present transactions.

What is a credit card collector?

A growing field of numismatics (study of money), or more specifically exonumia (study of money-like objects), credit card collectors seek to collect various embodiments of credit from the now familiar plastic cards to older paper merchant cards, and even metal tokens that were accepted as merchant credit cards.

Who is a credit card holder?

Cardholder: The holder of the card used to make a purchase; the consumer. Card-issuing bank: The financial institution or other organization that issued the credit card to the cardholder. This bank bills the consumer for repayment and bears the risk that the card is used fraudulently.