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Posted on April 25, 2017April 25, 2017

Preferring soiled banknotes to new 

A little snippet from the Institute for Money Technology and Financial Inclusion  blog , taken from an article promisingly titled “Micro Insurance Claim Payments through Pre-paid Cards: Technology and Regulation Driven…

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Posted on March 8, 2016March 8, 2016

“A Panoply of All Possible Futures” From “The Zahir” by Jorge Luis Borges

Next to the Anthony Burgess quote I previously posted, this is my favourite literary passage on money    Sleepless, possessed, almost happy, I reflected that there is nothing less material than…

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Posted on February 26, 2016July 2, 2017

Anthony Burgess on decimalisation.

This quote made me wonder about the cognitive impact of decimalisation. There seems to be a consensus that cognitive challenging activities help to reduce and/or delay dementia, and I wonder,…

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