Is a cashless society actually desirable?

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Travelex's Michael Batley argues that not only is physical cash unlikely to disappear soon, but that people are wary of going 100 per cent cashless

In a recent speech at the 2018 Australian Payment Summit, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Philip Lowe, painted the picture of a near-future society in which physical cash is a niche ...

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