Remove card number on bunq Mastercard

Hemmik

As Jobs once quoted Picasso: "Good artist copy, great artist steal". Maybe it's time to steal one of Apple's newest ideas: No card number on the Apple Card they introduced yesterday. Why would you still have the card number on the bunq Mastercard when it is available in the app? The only place users would still need the card number is when paying online and since the CVC is needed for this anyway, the bunq app would have to be opened. Having the number on the card therefore does not have any added value. Adding safety by not having the number on the card would therefore make perfect sense!

Glodinas

Hemmik Also titanium MasterCard would be welkome

Hemmik

Johannes 🇦🇺 Terminals where the physical card number is needed on the card? How would this work? I always thought that either the NFC, Chip or magstripe was used. Since the numbers are printed on the card, they can no longer be used to imprint them on a piece of paper like they would in the past.

Hemmik

Johannes 🇦🇺 Problem solved in that case, you can just as easily read it from your bunq app :).

Jos-Golden-Unicorn

That Apple card is one sexy card! I would like to have one, but I assume they will not be available in The Netherlands...

Roeshimi

Jos One step after the other. First regular Apple Pay in the Netherlands, and if you prove to be worthy, you get Apple card ;)

Samzoiets

Roeshimi Well.... as some folks have managed to get Apple Pay up and running in The Netherlands, we have the opportunity to proof ourselves worthy of Apple Pay....

As credit cards are not that common in The Netherlands, we'll be last to get Apple Card...

Roeshimi

Sam 🇳🇱🇬🇧 "managed", so not legally. Wait until it's your turn ;)

Samzoiets

Roeshimi Patience is not one of my built-in features...

Having said that, to return to the topic at hand; is there any legal obligation to print the number on the card?

Roeshimi

Sam 🇳🇱🇬🇧 I think I have read somewhere that there needs to be a number on the card, but the Apple announcement has proven me wrong.

Samzoiets

Roeshimi I was referring to Mastercard-cards. I don't know which payment scheme the Apple Card is on.

Roeshimi

Sam 🇳🇱🇬🇧 Yes I was talking about the physical Apple Card, which is a MasterCard as well

Samzoiets

Roeshimi Didn't know Apple Card was a Mastercard...

Roeshimi

Sam 🇳🇱🇬🇧 Now you know ;)

Gerhard-Yellow-Frog

Seems like more banks might follow this lead: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-26/mastercard-sees-other-banks-ditching-card-numbers-like-apple-did

Bram

That card looks absolutely stunning!! Please make a card like that bunq🤩

Gerhard-Yellow-Frog

Bram this looks stunning out of the box; I'd be very interested if it looks good after a few days of actually using it... not sure that white will stay white for very long :)

Bram

Gerhard I have no idea, maybe the fact that the card is titanium makes it more durable? Let’s just hope that bunq creates a metal card instead of plastic ones, no matter the color😌

Bernd-Teal-Share

Bram Und wie wollen sie die Metalkarte am Ende der Laufzeit nach 3 oder 4 Jahren entsorgen? Plastik ist schon schlimm genug, aber man kann sie wenigstens zerschneiden, quer durch den Chip, bevor sie zum Elektroschrott kommt.

zyxbac

Bram Let’s get to the point where we only use Google/Apple Pay and get rid of the physical cards at all. For the time being use cards made out of the most sustainable/recyclable material available. Whatever this material might be.