18 Revealing Credit Card Ownership Statistics (2023)
Credit cards have come a long way from their start in the late 19th century, when stores and hotels began offering metal and celluloid charge cards to stamp account numbers on sales slips. It was a decidedly analog beginning for an industry transitioning from chip and PIN cards, where a metallic chip holds payment data on a plastic card, to virtual cards and global digital payment systems. Nowadays, Americans are so accustomed to using physical and virtual credit and debit cards... read more »