Why Sweden is abandoning its cashless society(uk.news.yahoo.com)
35 points by nephihaha | 25 comments
A Yahoo News UK article on why Sweden is moving away from its push toward a fully cashless society.
#digital-payments on Hacker News
3 stories tagged digital-payments, newest first.
Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment(lesnumeriques.com)
886 points by healsdata | 700 comments
Les Numériques article (French) reporting that 130 million Europeans will move to a fully sovereign European payment system from 2026, reducing reliance on Visa and Mastercard.
Pro-cash movement warns that people could be losing more than they bargained for(wsj.com)
376 points by walterbell | 551 comments
Wall Street Journal A-Hed feature on pro-cash activists resisting the shift to cashless and digital payments.