Introducing Cashless Pioneers
You swipe, dip or tap your card, it works. Pretty simple right? Well there’s 45 plus years of expertise and technology that has enabled that safe, simple and smart payment experience you have when you shop, travel and run a business. Many people do not sit back and contemplate the value of electronic commerce, but there …
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Ben Mazzotta, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Emerging Market Enterprises, The Fletcher School at Tufts University How do people use cash? Does the way that they use cash ultimately affect their costs, and how? The Center for Emerging Market Enterprises has a yearlong research project spanning consumers, merchants and financial institutions, …
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Geronimo Emili is the founder of NoCashDay.org and the promoter of “No Cash Day” initiative in Italy Italy is a beautiful and ancient place, and I’ve always been awestruck by the ancestral relationship that we’ve had with coins. In Rome, the city where I live, I often visit the ancient ruins of “Mercati di Traiano”, …
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David is a contributing editor at WIRED and author of “The End of Money” When I first embarked on the journey that became The End of Money, I wanted to personalize this investigation into the past and future of cash. So I decided to go a year without ever using notes or coins. Turns out, a …
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Lilliana Vazquez is a guest blogger and style expert. As a reporter and stylist I’m always running around NYC- whether it’s trying to get to a shoot on time or desperately trying to make it to a boutique before closing time. It’s a fast paced city and having to stop to get cash out of …
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Death to the Fat Wallet
April 13, 2012I’ve got a confession: I never liked cash. Dollar bills and pennies and dimes everywhere…And that FAT WALLET… No thanks. As I travel around the world for work and for fun, using my card is so much safer, simpler and more convenient. The only time I’ve had any trouble is when I encountered a group …
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