The payments industry deplores it, but cash is starting to look pretty good, and central banks agree: “We do not foresee a totally cashless society”: ECB… Read More Credit-Cardholders & Bank Customers Burned Again as New IT Chaos Breaks Out in the UK
Motivated by inflation?… Read More Mexico’s Central Bank Just Broke with the War on Cash
People view paying in cash “as a fundamental freedom, which should not be disproportionately restricted.”… Read More The EU Backs Off its War on Cash. Here’s Why
The electronic-payments industry, which gets a cut from every electronic transaction, wants to kill cash. But wait… Read More Backlash Against “War on Cash” Reaches Washington & China
An industry dogged by non-believers who fret about privacy and fraud. … Read More Consumers Stubbornly Cling to Cash, after Multiple IT Fiascos & Payment Systems Outages
War on Cash Suffers Setback.… Read More Visa Goes Down in the UK, Chaos Ensues, Cash is Suddenly King
It’s too risky and systematically excludes the most vulnerable people.… Read More Even the World’s Most Cashless Nation Doesn’t Want to Go Fully Cashless
War-on-Cash Backlash.… Read More Cash Refuses to Die, But the €500-Note Is a Goner
Next Phase in Forcing Biometric Tracking on Consumers… Read More Next Phase in Forcing Biometric Tracking on Consumers
Just one day before the case was due to come up in the Supreme Court, the government postponed the linking of the Aadhaar digital identity scheme to bank accounts… Read More Indian Govt Postpones Linking Bank Accounts to Digital IDs Amidst Public Backlash
And the definition of “cash” widens… Read More A New Stealth Attack in EU’s “War on Cash”
War on Cash bogs down, despite best efforts of government, banks, and credit card companies… Read More Spain’s Third Biggest Bank Just Made it Harder to Get Cash
