Cash

For the first-time, over half of all product and service purchase transactions in Russia were paid for using non-cash payment instruments.

Payment industry players are expected to present testimony on Capitol Hill before a House financial technology task force on Thursday that’s weighing a bill to prohibit stores from refusing to accept cash.

The city would join San Francisco and Philadelphia among cities that prohibit stores and restaurants from only accepting electronic payments.

Cold, hard currency is still a crucial part of a competitive payments strategy, particularly in massive markets like Indonesia, Korea, Japan and India, says Rapyd's Joel Yarbrough.

Pakistan’s central government is using its post offices to follow through on an initiative to ease electronic funds movement for remote workers sending money home.

New data analytics could help provide more comfort to banks in doing business with the cannabis industry, despite restrictive federal laws.

Large brands such as Barclays and Amazon recently reversed course and allowed cash to accompany clearly digital strategies, moves that made more sense politically than economically. The question is how long public policy can be the main factor in slowing cash’s decline.

The adoption of payment cards over cash varies by nation, but debit ruled nearly everywhere on the continent.

Cash access has grown tighter in the U.K. as more consumers adopt digital payments and banks shrink their fleets of branches and ATMs. Could the U.S. could see a similar phenomenon?

Payments innovation is happening in small businesses like Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant, which has to manage a shift in how people shop, order, pay and communicate — all at the same time.