A novel item arrived in the post last week - the first debit card issued by my high street bank without a long, bumpy number on the front that steadily wears down and becomes illegible when stored ...

A new rule from Visa Inc. will let banks eliminate a long-standing but largely obsolete design element in their payment cards: embossed lettering. The San Francisco company said Tuesday that it has ...

Left your debit card in the ATM machine again? Instead of waiting for a replacement card to arrive via mail, many banks can now instantly issue you a new card at your local branch. But beware, these ...

Issuing combined student IDs and bank cards on campus reduces the time it takes to get these multifunction cards into students’ hands, and it enables them to begin using the card the moment they exit ...

California’s plan to convert paper unemployment checks to plastic debit cards — and save the state $4 million a year — has been delayed until July, seven months later than originally planned, a state ...

After seeing the news that Starling Bank have changed the color of their debit card and have released a vertical version, it left me questioning why, and whether this is just a gimmick. The challenger ...

If you've had a new debit or credit card in the last few years, you might have noticed a few changes to the design. Cards increasingly have new features like notches cut out of one edge, raised dots ...

Time has run out for “knuckle-busters,” the clunky contraptions merchants needed for decades to accept card transactions, but their legacy—the raised characters embossed on payment cards—is proving ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Starling's art director Mark Day says the redesigned debit ...

KUWAIT CITY: MasterCard International awarded Kuwait Finance House (KFH) as pioneer, being the first Kuwaiti bank to launch an un-embossed MasterCard debit card, making it usable allover the world, ...

Over the years you may have found that each time you get a new credit or debit card there are new features on them. Cards often have changes to their designs such as notches cut out of one edge, ...