Token service providers like the card networks keep track of these tokens and translate them into the actual card credentials when needed by issuers. They also provide the digital “vaults” that secure ...

The five-sided tokens representing the five boroughs are the fifth in the subway’s history. They’re a touch smaller than the current token. Originally Published: October 20, 1995 at 12:00 a.m.

As our story in this issue, “A Token of Appreciation,” points out, tokenization has become big-league stuff. It started last summer with a landmark agreement in which Visa agreed to open its ...

The following year, William sent Nicholson a token of his appreciation: a bent-willow vessel, only about three inches high and incorporating thousands of intricate stitches.