Thursday, 22 November 2012

A solid gold investment?

We’ve come a long way since the first credit cards were issued in Fresno, California. (Source Visa). We now have online payment systems such as Paypal and the rise of mobile money which surprisingly made their debut in Zambia, Africa ten years ago. Now we have the next innovation, gold credit cards. That’s right a card made of solid gold.

 

Visa and a bank headquartered in Russia (Sberbank) have teamed up to offer their Kazakhstan branch a solid gold credit card. The card will be offered only to the bank's 100 most valuable customers and will cost $100,000 upfront with an annual fee of $2,000. Now I have to go massively into debt just to have a card! Though the card does contain 26 diamonds equal to 0.17 carats and a mother of pearl.

How do you swipe you ask? You can’t the card can only be used for chip transactions. No magnetic strip, guess I won’t be ordering one for Christmas after all!

 

Disclosure: Decisive has no positiion in the bank
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