The card networks actually provide this service (it's called a card account updater) for a small fee to merchants/payment gateways/etc, so the ones that are tra

The card networks actually provide this service (it's called a card account updater) for a small fee to merchants/payment gateways/etc, so the ones that are transferring are doing so with your card companies help and to the card companies benefit. I wouldn't expect that to go away any time soon