personal identification number

personal identification number definition - finance
A series of numbers that consumers use to access their checking or debit accounts from automated teller machines (ATMs), financial institution Web sites, and telephone banking services. PINs typically have four digits. PIN accounts also allow consumers to obtain credit card cash advances from ATM machines.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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