First Data produces about 100 million credit cards every year. Veronica Smith, a First Data production operator, loads cards into a laser embosser at the company’s credit card production facility in ...

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 ...