Sweden’s central bank, the Riksbank, has proposed several measures to make it easier to pay with cash or digital payments. The central bank also called for an expansion of the Swedish government’s current inquiry into the use of cash to pay for essential goods, the...
America’s most common form of currency might also be its least wanted. There are now more $100 bills in circulation than any other denomination, with the number of these bills doubling between 2012 and 2022, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Sunday (Feb. 25), citing...
British retailer Asda has picked NCR Atleos to bring new ATMs to its stores. The collaboration, announced Monday (Nov. 27), means that Asda customers will soon be able to withdraw cash from Atleos machines at more than 600 stores. “By implementing Atleos ATMs Asda will deliver a convenient cash...
Consumers have increasingly stopped carrying cash. Businesses are trying to get them to start. As The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday (Oct. 15), merchants are now offering discounts for paying for cash as a way to avoid credit card transaction fees. The report, citing data from...
February 03, 2023
The conventional wisdom is that the shift to digital payments has led us all away from cash. Jamison Jaworski, GM-SVP of retail and Green Dot Network at Green Dot, and Nicole Haskins, vice president, electronic billing and payment solutions and innovations at Paymentus, told PYMNTS that cash is still sticky, and still is a vital […]
January 15, 2023
Leading up to final approval, payments-related aspects of Italy’s 2023 budget were hotly debated. One of those debates ended up with the government backtracking on an initial proposal to ditch...
December 06, 2018
Forty countries: That’s how many places either have real-time payments programs in progress or live. That’s progress. Yet, there is more work to be done. In the latest edition of...
July 26, 2018
A consumer can own multiple credit cards and live in a highly technological society and still want to pay via a method that can come pretty close to resembling cash....
September 03, 2024
Thailand’s digital wallet stimulus plan has suddenly become less digital. As Reuters reported Tuesday (Sept. 3), Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said the government’s planned 450 billion baht ($13.1 billion) “digital wallet” handout will be distributed in cash, a change from the government’s flagship policy. Initially, the government would have transferred 10,000 baht ($292) in credit […]
March 14, 2024
Sweden’s central bank, the Riksbank, has proposed several measures to make it easier to pay with cash or digital payments. The central bank also called for an expansion of the...
February 25, 2024
America’s most common form of currency might also be its least wanted. There are now more $100 bills in circulation than any other denomination, with the number of these bills...
November 27, 2023
British retailer Asda has picked NCR Atleos to bring new ATMs to its stores. The collaboration, announced Monday (Nov. 27), means that Asda customers will soon be able to withdraw cash from Atleos machines...
