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While some consumers resort to credit card debt, BNPL schemes, and pawnbroking, others privilege cash to make ends meet during the U.K. cost of living crisis.

Small businesses are charging U.S. customers extra to cover Visa and Mastercard’s high swipe fees during the cost-of-living crisis.

Many U.S. customers are racking up credit card debt to make ends meet during the cost-of-living crisis.

Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana in August, 16 years after Katrina. The financial and electronic payments infrastructure shut down due to power outages, leaving cash as the only functioning payment instrument.

A survey by the Mexican central bank shows that transactional demand for cash declined during the pandemic. Still, most respondents choose cash as their preferred means of payment.

Cash and Crises, a series of financial literacy audiographics by CashEssentials releases its fourth episode with a social mission to support the relief and development community in understanding how cash is managed for society in times of crisis.

20 European banks are planning the launch of the Pan-European Payment System Initiative -PEPSI - to challenge the dominance of Visa and MasterCard in Europe and counter Big Tech firms.

The argument that cash fuels the shadow economy is commonplace. It has been used by Kenneth Rogoff, Larry Summers and Peter Sands and many others. On the other hand, for Yves Mersch, Member of the Board of the European Central Bank "No particular link can be established statistically between cash and criminal activities. The focus must be on the fight against crime. Cash must not be made the scapegoat."

Young Americans are leaving their mark with traces of sky-rocketing credit card debt.

‘Dirty Money’ has never gotten as literal as this. Do you ever just wonder how clean cash, cards and coins are? LendEDU did and they share exactly how!

A recent study reveals that mobile-payment consumers are attached to cash. Cash provides convenience, privacy and is readily accepted by virtually all businesses.

Yet another festival in Australia drops cash transactions leaving consumers to wonder who’s the winner of the cashless game.