Definition:
A payment card is any card, including any stored-value card (having prepaid value, including gift cards), issued according to an agreement or arrangement that provides for all of the following:
- One or more issuers of the cards.
- A network of persons unrelated to each other, and to the issuer, who agree to accept the cards as payment.
- Standards and mechanisms for settling the transactions between the merchant acquiring entities and the persons who agree to accept the cards as payment.
Citations: 6050W. Returns relating to payments made in settlement of payment card and third-party network transactions.