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posted by janrinok on Tuesday November 10 2015, @06:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the silent-cha-ching-noise dept.

A new study out of Sweden says the tiny country is on course to become the world's first "cashless society," thanks in part to a mobile payment app called Swish.

The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm released a statement in October quoting researcher Niklas Arvidsson, who said cash is an important means of payment in many countries, "... but that no longer applies here in Sweden."

Arvidsson and his team of researchers said there are about 80 billion Swedish crowns in regular circulation, down from 106 billion six years ago. "And out of that amount, only somewhere between 40 and 60 percent is actually in regular circulation. ... Our use of cash is small, and it is decreasing rapidly."

Swish has more than 3.5 million users (of Sweden's total population of 9.5 million) and nearly 4.5 billion Swedish crowns were "Swished" in October.


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  • (Score: 2) by soylentsandor on Tuesday November 10 2015, @07:35PM

    by soylentsandor (309) on Tuesday November 10 2015, @07:35PM (#261397)

    If Sweden has no cash (...)

    It still does. TFS states "Sweden is Nearly There". That's actually rather overstating the situation as TFA mentions this:

    there are about 80 billion Swedish crowns in regular circulation, down from 106 billion six years ago

    That's obviously quite a significant drop but it's still a long way from being cashless.

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