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Banking on Status

by julian_digital on 12/3/20, 5:45 PM with 1 comments

  • by zlast on 12/3/20, 6:16 PM

    Very interesting - some US examples that come to mind are Chime, Current, and Petal, all sporting the same modern "sleek" design.

    Was the Robinhood debit card the first mainstream card for this? I distinctly recall my friends and I thinking it looked cool, and we wanted it just for how it looked.

    Though I guess it's always been about the status - thinking back to the American Express Centurion card. It seems like modern cards are shifting from signaling wealth (old metal cards) to hipness (new sleek cards).