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Are we really looking at the end of cash? If so, when?
Cash – and how we should be able to live without it – is back in the news. It’s suddenly so last decade. Is this the end of cash? Read more…
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No cash, no pain – what if you woke up to no paper money?
What if we wake up one day and find that all the paper money and cash that we are familiar with has disappeared? We might shake our empty wallets but it would do us no Read more…
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Cash still king in SE Asia despite mobile payment attempts to dethrone it
SINGAPORE/HANOI (Reuters) – Bui Mai Phuong is an avid online shopper, ordering anything from clothing to personal-care products from her smartphone. But she prefers to pay with cash. She is among hundreds of millions of Read more…
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Cash, credit cards and cryptocurrencies – all accepted here
We all know that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are definitely not as safe as houses. And when the Sage of Omaha, Warren Buffett himself, says that Bitcoin is “rat poison, squared”, opinion tends to harden Read more…
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Infosys to return $2 billion cash to shareholders to placate criticism
MUMBAI/BENGALURU (Reuters) – Infosys set a $2 billion cash return to shareholders and appointed an independent director as co-chairman, moves that may placate a group of founders and former executives who have criticised India’s second-biggest Read more…