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Are you addicted to cheques?
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Are you addicted to cheques?

Issue 313 | 1 May 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 cheque at the till in Tesco’s to pay for the weekly groceries.

My (small) claim to fame in this payments niche is that I was responsible for the launch of the Barclays Business Debit Card (the successor to the Connect card) - the first business debit card launched in the UK!


Source: YouTube IainLucey1972two


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