The race towards a cashless Olympics

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It is up to the payments industry to play the game and upsell contactless payments

It has now been two years since Visa announced its aim for the 2012 Olympics to be entirely cashless for visitors. With less than 18 months to go, however, we are still some way from realising this...

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