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Plenty of Western officials and media outlets have criticized Libra – but it’s not meant for them.
As cashless societies become a reality, we’re starting to see this technological revolution has a dark side.
There are good reasons to be sceptical of the Facecoin project.
A dormant ‘cash mountain’ marks a nadir for London’s contactless travel card, but trouble has been brewing for some time.
China’s most popular social media app WeChat is on the rise in Australia thanks to demand from Chinese students and tourists. Here’s what you need to know if you plan to use it.
A cashless society depends on three things, all of which have failed in recent weeks as a result of natural disasters and security breaches.
The demonetisation drive has made the banking sector healthier but failed to curb ‘black money’.
The banks could have used their collective bargaining power not only against Apple for Apple Pay but also stall the adoption of mobile payments in Australia.
The competition in Australia’s contactless payment industry is heating up as Apple Pay sets up in Australia. However some banks claim the company is making the system less competitive.
Despite a rise in cashless payments and a drop in customers drawing out cash, bank tellers might still have a future.
Apple faces numerous challenges in its bid to get more people using their iPhones to pay for things.
Despite the growth of card and mobile payments, cash is still king in many markets.
It will take more than shifting Medicare payments from one monolith to another to deliver true innovation.
Do innovations like PayPal, Square, Apple Pay and Bitcoin spell the end of cash? How different countries are adopting new forms of financial tech.
Australians love to ‘tap and go’ for payments, but doing it with a mobile phone is being complicated by our card fee system.
Today marks a milestone in our transition to more secure electronic payments, yet the costs and benefits are not what they seem.
Mobile payments will be one of the hottest businesses in 2015 as consumers increasingly swap cash and credit cards for their smartphones. How fast the mobile payment market segment grows, however, will…
Apple Pay has launched to much fanfare. People with the iPhone 6 or 6 Plus are now able to make credit card payments at certain shops and restaurants in the US. But Apple Pay isn’t the first of its kind…
Today’s launch of the Apple Pay mobile payments service has the potential to eliminate the need for us to carry payment cards in our purses or wallets - but as always converting potential to reality is…
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Adjunct Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
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Acting Director, Institutional Advancement, University of Ghana, University of Ghana
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Professor of FinTech History and Global Trade, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Fellow of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Informatics and Operations, Kingston University
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Professor and Head, School of Business, Monash University
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Director, Gambling Treatment and Research Clinic, Professor, School of Psychology, University of Sydney
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Fellow for Cyber-security and Internet Governance, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
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Senior Lecturer in Networking, The Open University
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Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Oxford
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Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Assistant Professor of Digital Methods and Critical Data Studies, Utrecht University
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Lecturer, Intercollege Larnaca
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Director: MOD., University of South Australia
