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The token comes from your acquirer (eg Stripe), not the bank-- the acquirer is the one holding the card info, then when you submit a request to your acquirer, they perform a lookup on the token, grab the card data, and do the real lifting of charging the card.

For a company like Visa, this should be a trivial feature.



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