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 ...

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 ...

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 ...