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The '''Dankort'''
== History ==
The first Dankort was issued by ''Pengeinstitutternes Købe- og Kreditkort'' in September 1983. In 2001 Dankort A/S was founded, and it took over the rights to the Dankort in January 2001.
In 2004 the Dankort technology was upgraded from being simply a magnetic strip card, to a hybrid card with both the magnetic strip and an [[smart card|embedded chip]]. This was to improve security by making it harder to clone a card and also to add more room for extra information on the card. However the card
In the beginning of 2005 the Danish [[bank]]s introduced a 50 [[øre]] per transaction fee for using a Dankort card.
Danish law distinguishes between varying types of debit cards and credit cards.
Due to the higher fees charged by banks for the use of non-Danish issued cards (that consist of foreign card network interchange fees plus Danish banks' own fees)
Co-branded Dankort-Visa cards are very common in Denmark and do not carry the bigger fee, as Danish merchants treat them as regular Dankort cards within Denmark. Danish holders of Dankort-Visa are normally able to use these cards globally, wherever Visa is accepted and the fee for accepting a foreign Visa card isn't too high that a merchant will deny the use of a foreign Visa card.
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== External links ==
*[http://www.dankort.dk Dankort] {{
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