Tag: Credit card

The Changing Face of British Currency and Payment Technologies

Today, 21st April 2016, Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating her 90th birthday. A lot can change in 90 years, so in honor of Her Majesty’s name day, we decided to look back at how British currency and payment technologies have changed over the last nine centuries. From coins and cheques to credit cards, internet banking […]

Can anyone make security cool?

I made my first Internet purchase in 1993, a T-shirt for the nascent music-sharing site IUMA (Internet Underground Music Archive). The founders of IUMA, all from the University of California, Santa Cruz, had thought a lot about their venture, and understood many things about the Internet, the law and risk. First of all, IUMA didn’t […]

Will the younger generation push us to advanced payments?

Is it safe to say that young adults don’t tend to use cash as much as older generations do?  I’ve certainly seen it with my under-35 adult friends and colleagues over the years; this age group depends on debit and credit cards for just about everything.  It’s just easier (no going to the ATM or […]