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Guillaume Lepecq

Guillaume Lepecq

Chair at CashEssentials
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Bio CashEssentials is an independent initiative offering a platform for debate about the payments and monetary ecosystems, and conducting and fostering high-quality research on cash, money and its future.

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EU legislation to facilitate the access to and acceptance of cash?

11 May 2023

Could legislation contribute to the modernisation of the cash cycle by encouraging the adoption of new technologies and new business models? The mantras of the “Next Generation EU” project (“Make it Green”; “Make it Digital”; “Make it Healthy”; “Make it Strong”; “Make it Equal”) might seem, at first sight, to lead directly to the adoption of a digi...

 

Harnessing Technology to Ensure the Future of Cash

15 Feb 2021

Might we be witnessing cash in its death throes at the bloody hands of coronavirus? Some who would benefit from the would-be demise of physical money see a silver lining in the most brutal recession since the 1930s. The argument is that digital payments have grown exponentially in the coronavirus pandemic, capping a decade of sustained growth in ne...