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First the penny. Next, paper checks? When the US Mint stopped making pennies last month for the first time in 238 years, it drew a lot of attention. But there have been quiet moves to stop using paper ...

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Ripple has secured its first European bank customer for its licensed payments stack, with Switzerland-based AMINA Bank adopting Ripple Payments to support near-real-time cross-border transfers for ...

Users have been waiting for years, and it's finally here: Two of the most popular payment platforms, PayPal and Venmo, are letting you send direct payments between them. The feature is rolling out to ...

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