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Tap to pay is here to stay

If cash really is king, someone needs to tell consumers: almost two-thirds of us in Ireland now make contactless payments. Jason Walsh reports

Irish consumers appear particularly happy to wave hello to contactless. Picture: Getty

The main question any of us needs to ask about the future of money is just how much we will have of it. Nonetheless, dramatic developments in technology, from app-based neo-banks to planned experiments in central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), have upended much of what we think about spending. For some of us, anyway.

At the centre of it all is the contactless payments process, which has seen not only cash, but even credit cards, ...