Cashless Society

The Cashless Society Arrives in Africa

05/17/2013 17:59
It was recently announced at the World Economic Forum in Cape Town, South Africa that MasterCard and the Nigerian National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) under the government of Nigeria would form a partnership to distribute a new identity card to every Nigerian citizen.  The purpose of...

8 Ways the Death of Cash Will Change Your Life

04/28/2013 09:28
That feeling of cold, hard cash in your pocket is doomed. Money, in the physical form that we know and love, is rapidly dying. In its place, credit and debit cards — and a host of newer technologies, such as smartphone-based payments and NFC transactions — are increasingly dominating our...

Biometric IDs could lead to cashless society

02/23/2013 08:10
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Futurists have long proclaimed the coming of a cashless society, where dollar bills and plastic cards are replaced by fingerprint and retina scanners smart enough to distinguish a living, breathing account holder from an identity thief. What they probably didn't see coming...

With Instant-Pay Apps, Wallets Can Stay Home

09/03/2012 18:31
A lot of people gave up carrying much cash a long time ago, since they knew “plastic” - a credit or debit card, or a store or public transit “smart card” - would be accepted just about everywhere. But to hear tech companies tell it, plastic cards will be museum pieces as well before...

The Death Of Cash

04/24/2012 21:39
VoA:  s Hard Currency Becoming A Thing Of The Past? Doug Bernard | Washington DC Daniel Suelo is a man who has figured out how to live without money. Making his home in a high cave near the desert outpost of Moab, Utah, Mr. Suelo lives, eats, sleeps, scavenges and does just about...

EU to investigate mobile wallet scheme

04/17/2012 19:42
CNet:  EU regulators are looking into competition concerns surrounding a joint venture in mobile payments by Everything Everywhere, Vodafone and O2. EU regulators are looking into competition concerns surrounding a joint venture in mobile payments by Everything Everywhere, Vodafone...

Mint promotes digital-chip currency for penniless future

04/07/2012 12:27
VancouverSun:  On the cusp of the post-penny age, the Royal Canadian Mint is preparing to launch a digital alternative to all coinage and small bank notes — dubbed "MintChip" — which it hails as the natural next step in the "evolution of currency." The concept was quietly introduced on...

A Cashless Society May Be Closer Than Most People Would Ever Dare To Imagine

04/04/2012 21:17
EconomicCollapse:  Most people think of a cashless society as something that is way off in the distant future.  Unfortunately, that is simply not the case.  The truth is that a cashless society is much closer than most people would ever dare to imagine.  To a large degree, the...

Phones poised to replace the money in your pocket

02/29/2012 10:09
CNN:  This is the fourth time I've covered Mobile World Congress and every year I arrive expecting to be unimpressed, thinking "surely, this year there's nothing new left to show" and every year I leave realizing the pace of change is just accelerating. This year is no different: from...

Mobile phones could replace cash by 2016

11/25/2011 08:48
Telegraph:  Research by Forrester, commissioned by PayPal, found that “2016 will be the year when UK shoppers will be able to use their mobile phones to pay for things on the high street with digital money rather than cash, cheques or cards”. The findings are based on interviews with 10...

ViaTag System Turns Cars Into Contactless Payment Devices

08/21/2011 10:06
RFID Journal:Aug. 19, 2011—German startup company MotionID Technologies has developed a system that it envisions could change the way people purchase goods and services, using RFID tags attached to a car's windshield to pay for parking as well as paying for hamburgers at a drive-through, or...

Texas school district selects Radiant RFID for student accountability solution

08/10/2011 21:32
The Keller Independent School District based in Keller, Texas has selected Radiant RFID to manage a new pay-for-ride bus transportation system. Using RFID tags and readers, the Radiant RFID solution will operate in much the same way as a city bus pass. Combined with Motorola’s FX 7400 readers, the...

Visa: Goodbye to Mag-Stripe Credit Cards, Hello to Chip Cards, NFC

08/10/2011 10:58
YahooNews:  Visa said Tuesday that it is making an aggressive effort to push U.S. consumers onto credit cards with embedded security chips, a technology that has become prevalent overseas. Visa also said that it sees an end to the common "mag-stripe" credit card, which the United States has...

Visa to speed up migration to mobile wallet

08/09/2011 20:24
Visa Inc. V-N said it would accelerate the move to chip technology and speed up the use of mobile payments in the United States, as the world's largest payment processor tries to corner a share in the nascent smartphone payments market. High-end smartphones are now shipping with “near-field...

USA sees first fingerprint-enabled NFC payment

08/03/2011 10:14
PlanetBiometrics:  They are some of the hottest technology buzzwords around, so it's little wonder that technologists are salivating at the prospect of the coming together of Near Field Communications (NFC), biometrics and mobile wallets. NXP, AuthenTec and DeviceFidelity claim to have...

FaceCash brings biometric payments to iPhones

08/03/2011 10:10
ThirdFactor:  A new application for Apple’s iPhone and iPod called FaceCash offers face recognition as a means of identity verification for mobile-based payments made at brick and mortar points of sale, according to an International Business Times New York article. Essentially, what the...

Golden Handcuffs: New Wristbands Make Mobile Payments Easy

07/27/2011 21:32
Banks are so used to getting slapped on the wrist and having to pay civil fines, they’ve come up with a way to kill two birds with one stone. You used to have to make a phone call to get bailed out of trouble. Today you can use a mobile payment app on your phone for certain services. But, tomorrow...

RFID Wristband Supports Cashless Payment

07/27/2011 04:55
DAILY RFID has announced the release of its latest RFID wristband deigned to for applications including audience access control for ticketed events and to VIP areas. Each wristband also has a unique ID for tracking and tracing the audience in the party, also making it difficult for counterfeiting...

Leave your wallet at home: go chashless! You have to see this video!

02/10/2011 18:39
From CNN and @mijadedios

Polish government calls for country to become a cashless society

01/30/2011 08:03
From Souidcard and @Endtimesnews:  The Polish government has drawn up plans for the country to become a predominantly cashless society within three years, it has been revealed. The Finance Ministry is currently considering the merits of increasing the proportion of e-money payments...
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