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Is the Wallet Card the Credit Card of the Future?

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If you haven’t heard of the Wallet Card yet, chances are you will soon. Unveiled in early 2018 by Dynamics and Visa, the Dynamics Wallet Card™ has been generating an impressive amount of buzz. It’s been written up in numerous articles and has won several awards. One of those was the 2018 Best of Innovation Award at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, widely considered the consumer electronics industry’s most prestigious award. It’s the first time a payments consortium has won it. That’s a lot of exposure and expectation for any new product or technology. All too often, products that are subject to that much hype wither away into obscurity under the glare of that much scrutiny and anticipation. So what is the Wallet Card and will it be the “next big thing” in consumer finance?  What the Wallet Card Is and Does The Wallet Card has the capacity to be all of your payment cards: debit, credit, pre-paid and one-time use, even branded loyalty and gift cards, all

Will We See a Cashless Society? The Pros and Cons

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For a lot of people, it can feel as though they’re participants in a cashless society already. Their paychecks are direct-deposited into an account from which bills are automatically debited. They also regularly make payments (in-person and online) with without ever handling cold-hard cash.  Virtually every business accepts plastic, and you can slide or insert a card to buy a candy bar on almost any new vending machine. And with the ubiquity of mobile payment processing devices plugged into cell phones, you could likely buy from four different vendors at the local farmers’ market without ever touching paper money. That being said, our society is anything but cashless. Most people still carry cash, use cash, and take it for granted as a still-relevant staple of societal financial interactions. But as common as cash remains, the technological, societal, and even global trend has certainly been moving steadily into a more cash-free space. So will we see a cashless s