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Hate it when articles don't define their acronyms.

PAN = primary account number.

EMV = Europay, MasterCard, Visa. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV

Given the target audience of that blog, those seem to be perfectly reasonable things to leave out. I mean, do you expect programming blogs to define 'API'?

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