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snippet When Sweetgreen opened in 2008, 40% of its take was cash. By 2016, that value dropped to between 10% and 15%. [From  Why Your Business Should Ditch Cash - WSJ ] snippet

snippet After his business was robbed for the fifth time in just over three months, the owner of Park Cafe & Coffee Bar in Baltimore decided to do something that would have seemed radical for a neighborhood business just a few years ago: He stopped taking cash. It was a desperation move, but what happened next surprised owner David Hart. His sales didn’t go down. [From Why Your Business Should Ditch Cash - WSJ ] snippet

Wow. Consult Hyperion’s 20th annual Forum, Tomorrow’s Transactions 2017, will be held at the America Square conference centre in London on 26th/27th April. The Forum, thanks to the wonderful support from our friends at Vocalink, PaySafeGroup, WorldPay and Olswang, will once again provide a unique environment for learning, investigation, discussion and debate about the future of electronic transactions. The future of people, businesses and government in the post-industrial online and interconnected economy. This year’s invited keynote will be given by Professor Lisa Servon, one of the world’s leading authorities on financial and social inclusion. All delegates will receive a copy of Lisa's new book “The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives”. Other speakers and panelists include Gilad Rosner (IoT Privacy Forum), Nick Telford-Reed (WorldPay), , Amy Parsons (Discover), Sandra Alzetta (Visa), Terry Cordeiro (Lloyds Bank), Jane Zavalishina (Yandex Data Factory), Tim ...

...........the second Consult Hyperion seminar on.......... .............. D I G I T A L ... M O N E Y ................ The Tower Thistle Hotel London March 8-9th 1999 in association with Financial Times Virtual Finance Report DEMOS E-Finance Forum with a keynote address by Sir Richard Body, M.P. and a special presentation by Tim Jones, Managing Director Retail Banking, NatWest. ..................Confirmed Programme..................... Day One: Economic & Business Issues Chair Duncan Goldie-Scot Editor, Financial Times Virtual Finance Report Keynote Address: European Multiple Currencies Sir Richard Body, M.P. Digital Money is a Social Issue David Birch, Director, Consult Hyperion. The European Digital Money Picture Dag Fjortoft, Deputy General Manager, Europay International. Telecommunication Service Providers as Payment Operators Norman Bishop, Product Manager for Micropayments and E-Cash, BT. Retailing and Digital Currencies Paul Arnold, Head of Tesco Direct. The European Mass M...

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xxx Japan’s national digital identity has only reached a third of its residents, a year after launch. Out of 30 million cards, only 9.83 million have been distributed, according to Japan Times. One of the reasons for the delay was due to a series of computer glitches at the Japan Agency for Local Authority Information Systems, tasked with the production of the cards. The system, My Number, allows citizens to access social security, tax payments, e-government services and health records. From Japan’s digital identity slow to catch on | GovInsider xxx

xxx According to provisional data released by the Reserve Bank of India on Monday night, the usage of debit and credit cards at point-of-sale (PoS) terminals has declined in January after peaking in December. From Digital transactions decline in January as cash crunch eases - Livemint xxx