Laser-etched credit and debit cards begin to replace raised-type kind; issuers say they’ll last longer
Laser-etched credit and debit cards begin to replace raised-type kind; issuers say they’ll last longer
- March 13, 2017
- Bill Maurer, anthropologist, via the Omaha World Herald, March 13, 2017
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Cultural anthropologist Bill Maurer said that’s all fairly easy to explain. “Practices around payments are really durable, and they last over time,” said Maurer, dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, and director of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion there.
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