South Korea will begin a pilot program in the first half of 2017 where convenience stores will give customers change in the form of prepaid cards or transportation cards. The Bank of Korea will expand ...

A consortium backed by major Chinese corporations Tencent and Huawei will debut its new open source “blockchain ecosystem” FISCO BCOS at the Singapore Fintech Festival next month. BCOS is geared ...

South Korea’s central bank said it will carry out a test project in the first half of next year to reduce the use of coins. The Bank of Korea said it will select convenience stores and prepaid card ...

SALT LAKE CITY, UT / ACCESSWIRE / February 19, 2020 / Coinless, a Utah-based tech startup focused in the self-serve car wash industry, has just announced the closing of its first round of seed funding ...

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Kim Kyung-min, 27, was not aware of a pilot project by the Bank of Korea to reduce the use of coins until she was told by The Korea Herald. “Things would be convenient if I were able to receive change ...

Mon, April 18, 2016 Published on Apr. 18, 2016 Published on 2016-04-18T16:03:30+07:00 Korea is officially going cashless by dumping coins first. In the country that boasts high smartphone adoption and ...

One of the most annoying things about supermarket trolleys could soon be a thing of the past thanks to new Aussie-made tech. The Trolley Data Management Network (TDMN) has developed a coinless ...

Starting next month, the Dulles Toll Road will no longer accept cash or coins and all drivers will pay electronically. The "pay-by-plate" toll payment system for drivers not using E-ZPass or similar ...

After several years of a former laundromat sitting vacant in Walbrook Junction, Tawana and Roger Bhagwat are bringing laundry service back to the West Baltimore shopping center. The husband and wife ...