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Sweden set to win cashless race

Banking 2020

Even Sweden’s homeless magazine sellers have to accept cards because no one carries notes or coins. .” The research notes, for example, that the number of Swedish crowns in circulation has fallen from 106 billion six years ago to around 80 billion today. Of that, only between 40 and 60 per cent is in regular circulation.

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What Should a Bank Sound Like?

Banking 2020

A lot of retail banks talk about how they’re ‘customer-friendly’, even though no friend would use the language we see in a typical mortgage application, bank statement, or credit card letter. Her thoughts and words have appeared in books, newspapers, design annuals, magazines, blogs, and up the sides of Guinness bottles.

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The Mother List of All Banking Books

Jeff For Banks

Don't take my word for it, follow him at his website, Maxfield On Banks. Or read him in Bank Director magazine. Rusty" Big Bad Banks: How Greed and Ego Among the Big Shots in Banking and Government Created the Crisis that Wrecked Our Economy 2009 William D. I bet he read them all. Cohan Cohan, William D.

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