MasterCard® Open Data Storage (MODS) provides a secure and convenient platform for chip data storage and loyalty solutions, as well as the core payments application, MasterCard M/ChipTM.

Using a common application interface for smartcard accepting devices, it enables organisations to create applications, or interface to existing applications, using a common language.

MODS provides:

• Secure data storage
  
  
• A standard interface language
  
  
• Card-holder control of information sharing