BankAmericard changed credit cards by allowing customers to carry unpaid balances from one month to the next while paying interest on what they owed. Bank of America introduced the card in California in 1958. This differed from earlier charge cards, which generally required customers to pay their entire balance every month. In 1966, Bank of America began licensing the program to banks in other states, and BankAmericard was renamed Visa in 1976.
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