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...
Square has said it will investigate and publish a full review of an outage that impacted merchants for about 19 hours late Thursday (Sept. 7) and early Friday. The payments platform said in a Friday post on X that the outage began Thursday and it was aware...
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....
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 Swedish government’s current inquiry into the use of cash to pay for essential goods, the Riksbank said in a Thursday (March 14) press release announcing […]
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...
October 15, 2023
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...
