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In the s, these coins and medals evolved into rectangular metal cards called Charga-Plates that looked like something between a credit card and military dog tag. With consumers carrying around rectangular metal cards that they could use to make purchases, there were just a few things missing before someone could create the modern payment card:. First, someone had to conceive of a financial instrument that could be used to make charges at multiple merchants.
This was the first general purpose charge card, but it required consumers to pay each month's statement balance in full. Later, American Express and others would offer customers to option to carry a balance on their cards. This was the final innovation required to create the financial product that we would recognize as a modern credit card. At first, credit cards worked like the previous medals, coins, and plates.
Merchants would simply make an imprint of the card, which would be familiar to anyone who remembers how many credit card purchases were made up until the s. But by the s, many cards started having a magnetic stripe on the back, which could be read by specialized computer equipment that was state-of-the-art at the time. By today's standards, a magnetic stripe is considered primitive, as the information stored on it isn't even encrypted.
Just as imprinting gave way to magnetic stripe readers, credit cards with embedded computer chips are now making magnetic stripes obsolete.
These embedded computer chips, called EMV smart chips, allow for encrypted, two-way authentication between a merchant's credit card terminal and the payment processing network. This technology dates back to the s, and it was widely adopted in Europe over the last 20 years. However, it's only been in the last five years that America has undergone its migration to EMV-equipped cards and readers. The encrypted communications make it far less vulnerable to hackers, while the computer chips are much more difficult for criminals to counterfeit compared to simple magnetic stripes.
However, some industry experts suggest that the era of EMV smart chips may be relatively short, as wireless payment technologies are rapidly integrated into smartphones, watches and other wearable platforms. Finally, many foresee a day when biometric authentication allows consumers to charge purchases using a fingerprint or retinal scan, without having any object that contains their account information. We've come a long way from the days of using metal coins to make charges, and the cards in your wallet may also be obsolete in the near future.
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Terms apply to the offers listed on this page. To fully appreciate the modern convenience of credit cards, simply insert your chip card, pause while it processes and consider what it replaced. Prior to plastic, money as a means of exchange for goods and services was cumbersome, if not outright dangerous.
Beginning as far back as B. See related: How do credit cards work? According to historian Jonathan Kenoyer , the concept of using a valueless instrument to represent banking transactions dates back 5, years, when the ancient Mesopotamians used clay tablets to conduct trade with the Harappan civilization.
While still cumbersome, a slab of clay with seals from both civilizations certainly beat the tons of copper each would have had to melt down to produce the coins of that era. See related: Credit card market share statistics. Major banks would soon launch their own consumer cards, but with a welcome twist. Instead of users having to settle their bill in full each month, bank cards would truly become credit cards by offering revolving credit , which allowed cardholders to carry their monthly balance forward for a nominal finance charge.
Bank of America was first out of the gate in , mailing unsolicited BankAmericard credit cards to select California markets. It would be renamed Visa a decade later to acknowledge its growing international presence. Present-day Mastercard competes directly with a similar Visa organization, both of which are run by boards comprised primarily of current and former high-level executives from major corporations. While banks initially had to choose between the Visa and Mastercard association, changes to association bylaws have since allowed banks to join both associations and issue both types of cards to their customers.
See related: How does a credit card transaction work? As the popularity of bank and nonbank credit cards exploded in the s, so did legislation aimed at addressing consumer complaints against this fast-growing industry. Among the regulatory course corrections:.
The six-year litigation ended in when the U. Passage of the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act of , aka the Credit CARD Act , provided greater transparency for consumers and eliminated or reduced a range of card issuer transgressions involving interest rate hikes, late fees and over-limit fees in the depths of the Great Recession.
But some technological changes have emerged as standards. While the vast majority of credit cards still have a s-era magnetic stripe, cards that include a microchip, visible on the front of the card, are now standard. What will credit cards look like in 25, 50 or years?
In fact, many of them now offer virtual credit cards upon request if you want an extra level of security while you shop.
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