When designing debit and credit cards, issuers can spend much time debating and stressing over the front and back of the card. While a great-looking card design is critical, the design is only one part of the final product. Material options are huge in the overall card design and issuing process.

This report helps card issuers understand card material trends and the options to create physical debit, credit, and prepaid products that cardholders love. It is based on interviews with 12 bank and credit union card executives in the U.S., interviews with global card manufacturers, desk research, and the author’s experience launching card programs at financial institutions in the U.S.

Clients of Datos Insights’ Retail Banking & Payments service can download this report.

This report mentions A2A Studio, ABCorp, Arroweye, Austria Card, Bank of America, Beautiful Card, Cash App, Chanwanich, CompoSecure, CPI Card Group, Delta Airlines, DZ Card, EDC, Ellams, Ellipse, Federal Card Services, FIS CardPro, Fiserv, Giesecke+Devrient, GNC-TCS, Goldpack, Idemia, International Card Manufacturers Association (ICMA) , Luxury Card, Masria Card, Mastercard, MK Smart, MT&L, Novoflex , NthDegree Technologies Worldwide, Perfect Plastic, Protec Secure Card, REI, Rosan Diamond, Sun Chemical, Swiss Wood Solutions, TerraCycle, Thales, Thames, TietoEvry, Toppan, Visa, Watch Data, Xantium, XH Smart, and Zions Bank.