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Digital wallets are unbeatable for convenience – easing payments, helping verify your identity, and keeping your funds accessible as you move around. Until you cross an international border. That’s when regulatory differences, currency conversion issues, and technical glitches can all suddenly get in the way. At that point, plastic cards or old-fashioned cash may still […]
Digital wallets are providing millions of people with their first opportunity to save, make digital payments, and develop a transaction history attesting to their creditworthiness. At the WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Linux Foundation announced their intent to launch an OpenWallet Forum to stimulate global access to the digital […]
