{"id":8870,"date":"2023-01-19T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eces.org.eg\/?p=8870"},"modified":"2023-10-31T09:18:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T09:18:36","slug":"the-cashless-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eces.org.eg\/en\/the-cashless-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cashless Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Overview:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The startling picture of how China\u2019s revolution in finance and technology is changing both Wall Street and the way individuals manage their personal finances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China reinvented money with lightning speed, transforming a backward, antiquated cash-based finance system into one centered on super-apps created by technology giants Alibaba and Tencent. More powerful than anything available outside of China, they allow their billion users to pay, borrow, invest, buy goods and services, travel, chat (and far more) all fused together in one mobile phone application. Think Facebook, Google, Twitter, Goldman Sachs, Amazon, J.P. Morgan Chase all rolled into one app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We in the West need to understand China\u2019s cashless revolution for reasons ranging from the macroeconomic to issues of personal liberty: The cutting edge of finance is now in China, forcing major financial firms in the United States and the West to figure out how not to be left behind. China\u2019s cashless revolution is also a harbinger of our future if we let the genie out of the bottle and allow big tech to become big finance. As money goes digital and central banks around the world consider launching digital currencies, we may have both immense convenience and a frightening concentration of power that could violate our privacy, stifle competition, increase financial risk, and give big firms or the government more control over our financial lives. And, once this genie is out of the bottle, the struggle to put it back in may be impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview: The startling picture of how China\u2019s revolution in finance and technology is changing both Wall Street and the way individuals manage their personal finances. China reinvented money with lightning speed, transforming a backward, antiquated cash-based finance system into one centered on super-apps created by technology giants Alibaba and Tencent. 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