Sat.Sep 16, 2023

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‘It’s easier to budget’: people on why they swapped cards for cash

TheGuardian

Rising costs, scams and the local shop – why more people are returning to paying with notes and coins Cash payments are making a comeback in the UK for the first time in a decade, data shows. Reversing years of decline, the banking body UK Finance said many people had returned to physical money to help them budget as the cost of living crisis squeezes disposable incomes.

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Visa launches Visa cross-border solutions | Citi joins blockchain bond exchange | Franklin Templeton files for Bitcoin ETF

Bussman Advisory

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Free food and threats to bonuses: UK finance and tech firms fight working from home

TheGuardian

Banks and insurers join Google, Amazon and Meta in encouraging staff to spend most of week in office Free parking and changes to managers’ bonuses have helped Britain’s biggest insurer, Aviva, lure staff back to their desks for most of the working week. Welcome to the new-old world of work: where companies, particularly those in financial services and technology, push for staff to spend more days in the office as they try to rebalance the working from home trend.

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