Many banks are moving toward replacing horizontal credit cards with vertical ones. Tap-to-pay and chip readers have made a vertical orientation more convenient for users. PayPal's VP of Design ...

Horizontal cards are a legacy of outdated payments technology, bankers say. “The reason why payment cards are horizontal and have embossed numbers on the front goes back to when retailers used card ...

In recent weeks, Bank of America Corp., the second-largest U.S. debit-card issuer, became the first major financial institution to introduce a vertical design on its debit cards.