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Contactless payments may be convenient – but they also make it easier to overspend.
Christmas is traditionally a time of giving, including to charities and the needy. But what happens when so few of us carry cash anymore?
Most people would be content to pull off one of the world’s top five IPOs, but Jack Ma is on course for his second.
A fully cashless society has often been presented as natural or inevitable. The experiences of Sweden and Zimbabwe highlight some pitfalls.
Using less cash means leaving more digital traces of where your money goes - but there are ways to keep some privacy.
Coins have always conveyed a message and, helpfully for historians, they are anchored to a specific time and space. Rome’s emperors used coins to push their political agendas.
Plenty of Western officials and media outlets have criticized Libra – but it’s not meant for them.
As cashless societies become a reality, we’re starting to see this technological revolution has a dark side.
There are good reasons to be sceptical of the Facecoin project.
A dormant ‘cash mountain’ marks a nadir for London’s contactless travel card, but trouble has been brewing for some time.
China’s most popular social media app WeChat is on the rise in Australia thanks to demand from Chinese students and tourists. Here’s what you need to know if you plan to use it.
A cashless society depends on three things, all of which have failed in recent weeks as a result of natural disasters and security breaches.
The demonetisation drive has made the banking sector healthier but failed to curb ‘black money’.
The banks could have used their collective bargaining power not only against Apple for Apple Pay but also stall the adoption of mobile payments in Australia.
The competition in Australia’s contactless payment industry is heating up as Apple Pay sets up in Australia. However some banks claim the company is making the system less competitive.
Despite a rise in cashless payments and a drop in customers drawing out cash, bank tellers might still have a future.
Apple faces numerous challenges in its bid to get more people using their iPhones to pay for things.
Despite the growth of card and mobile payments, cash is still king in many markets.
It will take more than shifting Medicare payments from one monolith to another to deliver true innovation.
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Adjunct Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of FinTech History and Global Trade, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Acting Director, Institutional Advancement, University of Ghana, University of Ghana
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