The ECB has ended its net purchases of bonds. As a result, the ECB will no longer dampen volatility in the euro area bond markets to the same extent. This may lead to greater volatility in the Danish mortgage bond market. In recent years, banks have reduced their market-making capacity in the...

As a function of the digitized world that we live in and the idea about a cashless society, we have experienced how the phenomenon mobile payments has grown in recent years. The work carried out in order to create electronic payment systems for implementation in situations where cash typically...

The mobile phone can now be used as a payment instrument to purchase goods and services. Several factors have supported this use of mobile phones. Firstly, the mobile phone has a market penetration close to 100 per cent. Secondly, technological developments have enabled new payment services to...

Cash are socially less costly than payment cards for all payments below DKK 29, while Dankort, the national Danish debit card, are cheaper for all other point-of-sale payments. These results are derived from calculations that divide costs of payments into fixed, variable-transaction-dependent,...