September: Cash and Choice in Cuba
Cuba’s government made moves to restrict cash use in a bid to ‘force businesses and citizens to use electronic payments.’ The move was unpopular with citizens for whom banknotes in hand bring choice, privacy and personal control over their finances, and thus their lives.
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October: Cash Helps Canadians Cope with Cashless Crash
Payments across Canada switched to cash as a network outage at cashless payment processing company Moneris knocked out card transactions across large swathes of the country, including Ontario, British Columbia, Mississauga and Winnipeg.
Hot on the heels of this outage, Woolworths stores across Australia went cash-only due to internet connection problems that rendered cashless payments impossible.
