From the old way of carbon copying an account number and having a customer sign off on a purchase through to the advent of magnetic stripes and the chip-and-pin systems of today, the act of using a credit card hasn’t changed much over the last 50-odd years, even as the technology under the hood has.
But that seems to be changing as card providers and issuers are moving away from the style of card that IBM engineer Forrest Parry is credited with inventing in the 1960s and toward something a little more modern.
The most obvious shift afoot today turns the familiar wallet-shaped horizontal
