http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com The word "credit" comes from the Latin meaning "trust" and although credit was first used in Egypt some 3000 years ago, credit cards as we know them today have only been around for around 60 years. In 1946, John Biggins of the National Bank of Brooklyn in... http://suelenza.articlealley.com/1-credit-card-processing-and-the-history-of-credit-cards-158524.html 11th May 2007