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It looks as if the days of cash are numbered. Last year card payments accounted for over . Contactless payments are booming as people opt to wave a piece a plastic rather than fumbling around for change. The slow slide towards a cashless society looks inevitable.
But if cash is on the way out, why is the Bank of England bothering to replace paper £10 notes with new polymer ones this week? They might just be delaying the inevitable, but there are reasons to…
