Bank Rakyat's notched Mastercards for visually impaired

Bank Rakyat's notched Mastercards for visually impaired

Bank Rakyat is Malaysia’s first Islamic Bank to introduce Mastercard’s Touch Card, which features distinctive tactile notches to help blind and partially sighted cardholders to identify their payment cards. As more payment cards move to flat designs without embossed names and numbers, identifying cards can become a challenge for individuals with visual impairments. The Touch Card incorporates a distinctive notch at the short edge, making it easi…

Bank Rakyat and Mastercard Launch Touch Card for Visually Impaired in Malaysia - Fintech News Malaysia

Bank Rakyat has partnered with Mastercard to introduce the Touch Card, a payment card designed to help visually impaired users differentiate between debit, credit, and prepaid cards. The move makes Bank Rakyat the first Islamic bank in Malaysia to adopt this design. The Touch Card features notches cut into the short edge—rounded for debit, squared for credit, and triangular for prepaid—allowing users to distinguish and correctly position their c…