Around 2,000 ATMs in the US are expected to offer ‘card-less’ cash withdrawal services this year - allowing their users to order cash on their smartphone and withdraw at ATMs via codes, fingerprints or retina scans. Yes, the future has arrived. 

The cardless ATMs will be run by 28 banks (for now), which include Chase and Bank of America. According to IBTimes, Doug Brown from FIS Global predicts "cardless technology [will] appear at as many as 80,000 machines across North America in the next 18 months".

If this realises, then it is interesting for cash supporters as the decline of a once novel plastic payment method further illustrates the perseverance of tangible cash.