Tag: payments

The digital euro could offer many benefits to consumers.

The future of payments: why we need an inclusive digital euro

In an increasingly digitalised world, a digital euro offers many advantages but only if it can mirror the key characteristics of cash, writes Anna Martin.

/ October 13, 2023

Consumers deserve better security in electronic payments

It is a lesson from history that fraud always moves to the least secure form of payment available. The first credit card was launched in 1950 in the US. To authorise a payment, the consumer simply had to present it...

/ January 12, 2017

Why digital can’t replace cash

We live in a digital era where smartphones rule. These intelligent devices offer consumers instant and convenient access to information, services, shopping, banking and payments. So a logical question is to ask whether banknotes and coins still have a role...

/ June 16, 2016