An innovative new credit card creation has been introduced to the world: a card that contains a small monitor as well as a button that issues a password to the user for each transaction. The card is the brainchild of Verisign and Innovative Card Technologies. The two companies recently announced their joint venture and have also stated that they will be trying to sell the idea to a number of different credit card issuers
Although the concept of the card is quite interesting and can lead to a substantial increase in credit card security, whether or not credit card issuers will be willing to adopt the new design still waits to be seen. Traditional credit cards that are currently in use cost card issuers less than one dollar per card. These new cards, on the other hand, will cost card issuers anywhere from $10 to $30 per card. Issuers willing to purchase larger amounts of the cards will enjoy the lower rate. According to Verisign representatives, the majority of credit card issuers would likely pay somewhere in the teens for each card in order to have enough for their current customers.
Of course, credit card companies could always pass this expense onto their customers. At the same time, the competitive nature of these companies is making it increasingly more difficult to get customers to pay for fees that are not enforced by other credit card companies.
Although I am not interested in paying any extra fees, I think I would be more than happy to pay a one time $10 fee in order to substantially increase my level of security. At the same time, this seems like another one of those situations where an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In other words, if the credit card companies would simply pay the extra cash for this more secure technology, they could potentially save themselves a far greater amount of money when cases of credit card fraud and thievery are avoided.
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