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by trenchpilgrim 227 days ago
My employer contracts with a vendor that manages them. It's not expensive or difficult anymore. Even individual consumers can mint "virtual cards" with different time-based or merchant-based spending policies and limits for free, since like five years ago now. (https://www.capitalone.com/learn-grow/money-management/what-...)
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> Even individual consumers can mint "virtual cards" with different spending policies (see Capital One Eno) for free.

That's something else, isn't it? Or how do you pay with those at a typical POS terminal at a random lunch place?

You can add them to Google Wallet/Apple Pay. Useful for giving a family member a limited expense card, e.g. you can set up a "let my kid buy up to $X of food on weekends" card they can add to your phone.
Huh, interesting stuff, didn't know about it. Thanks for explaining!

Any ideas why the companies in the article doesn't just do that to fight the fraud then?

Replied in thread - they probably just don't know you can do it, because companies think in highly insular ways.