Card Briefs: Steelworkers in China Being Paid with Plastic

SAN FRANCISCO - Visa International has introduced "salary cards" that it said will replace pay packets for 55,000 steelworkers near Shanghai.

The cards, which were cobranded through the People's Construction Bank of China, were issued in July at the Shanghai Baoshan Metallurgical Plant and the Shanghai No. 5 Steel Plant.

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