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Also known as bank card, check card

payment card connected directly to a cardholder’s bank account

AI overview

A debit card is a payment card that draws money directly from your bank account when you use it to make a purchase. It matters because it lets you pay for things without carrying cash or writing checks, while only spending money you actually have in your account.

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Encyclopedic overview

Two major card networks of debit card are Visa Debit and Debit Mastercard

Funds transfer

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “debit card” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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