Over millennia, mankind has used hard cash in various forms ranging from shells to gold coins and paper. More recently, cash has become unpopular in political circles, as it effectively restricts states’ power to tax (explicitly or via negative interest rates) or to survey and potentially...

Titel -- Inhalt -- Vorwort -- Herausgeber -- Autorenverzeichnis -- Teil I: Aktuelle Entwicklungen im Payment-Markt -- Einführung -- Future Retail Payments: the Implications of Innovation for the Single Euro Payments Area -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Retail payments integration - the Single Euro...