The share of digital payments is steadily growing. Capgemini and BNP Paribas expect people around the world to make 726 billion transactions using digital payment technologies by 2020. "Non-cash payments have increased in volume due to the rise in adoption of digital payment services across all market segments," Christophe Vergne, cards and payment practice leader at Capgemini, told CNBC.
Banknotes and coins are gradually flowing from wallets to bank accounts. At first glance, this seems to be an organic continuation of the digitalization of society. There’s no modern social service, be it medicine or education, that would do without new technologies. However, despite all the innovations, nobody even thinks about devolving regulation of these structures completely to private hands. The finance is no less important, but why do we so readily agree to private regulation of our funds?
Private companies are overtaking governments
Cash is issued and regulated by central banks, such as the Federal Reserve System in the US, the European Central Bank in the EU, People’s Bank of China and others. It is their sovereign prerogative to regulate quantity of money, set the reserve requirement and interest rates, as well as to introduce other measures to keep the economy stable. Their actions directly affect our quality of life in the form of availability of loans, inflation rate, deposits on our accounts and other essential aspects.
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Banknotes and coins are gradually flowing from wallets to bank accounts. At first glance, this seems to be an organic continuation of the digitalization of society. There’s no modern social service, be it medicine or education, that would do without new technologies. However, despite all the innovations, nobody even thinks about devolving regulation of these structures completely to private hands. The finance is no less important, but why do we so readily agree to private regulation of our funds?
Private companies are overtaking governments
Cash is issued and regulated by central banks, such as the Federal Reserve System in the US, the European Central Bank in the EU, People’s Bank of China and others. It is their sovereign prerogative to regulate quantity of money, set the reserve requirement and interest rates, as well as to introduce other measures to keep the economy stable. Their actions directly affect our quality of life in the form of availability of loans, inflation rate, deposits on our accounts and other essential aspects.
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Who would be in control of the currency in a cashless society?
