The Maestro Card: Why You Should Have One

by Kate Thomas Over the past thirty years, the manifestation and pervasive use of credit and debit banking cards has forever-changed the financial landscape as we know it. Advances in technology have made it quite easy to complete composite financial dealings with the simple swipe of a plastic card. In early 1992, MasterCard introduced the Maestro card, an internationally usable debit card. The Maestro card works in two ways. It is either connected to a users home bank account or it is