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Are you addicted to cheques?

Issue 313 | 1 May 2022

May 01, 2022
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Back in the late 1980’s Barclays disrupted retail payments in the UK with the launch of the Barclays Connect card.

Now referred to as a Debit Card it is easy to forget what a transformation the Connect card made in the way we pay for things.

Here’s a great vintage ad from Barclays encouraging 20th Century consumers to break their addiction to writing a c…

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