The bachelor thesis brings the view of the historic, current and the future development of this payment instrument, a typology of credit cards, complete with the introduction of new contactless payment cards. Furthermore, the thesis focuses on their use and also deals with topics closely related to payment cards since their beginnings, which are security and risks, whether in cash withdrawals from ATMs, during the payment at merchants or at a convinient and increasingly popular shopping on the Internet. The final part of the thesis provides an analysis of current state of payment cards in the Czech republic, including an overview of current payment card offers from leading Czech banks.Bakalářská práce přináší pohled na historický, současný ...