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Future of Cash Takes a New Twist

“In God we trust, all others cash” was a popular and humorous catchphrase once upon a time. Cash has been getting a bad rap more recently as cashless technologies have increasingly brought forward the debate regarding the future of coins and bank notes.

Sweden and Zimbabwe have the greatest cashless society footprint seen to date. The future usefulness and acceptance of cash is in question in each nation. It now appears Sweden is becoming concerned that cash might

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