Craig Lawrance
Where has all the cash gone?
Craig LawranceCash has been having a hard time lately. With social distancing, retailers no longer appear to want your cash, they want you to keep a safe distance, but they still want your money in other ways. In the most developed countries, payment by card is well established, and there’s generally a good infrastructure to accept card payments. Globally, card schemes like Visa and MasterCard have reported a huge increase in the use of contactless payment in the stores where cards can be used, and many consumers have adopted cards in ways new to them…