1. •  What is a smart card ?

2. •  What is electronic cash?

3. •  “Mobile phones have the ability to make a dramatic change to village life in Africa” : discuss

4. •  What is an e-purse?

5. •  What is Octopus?

6. •  What is Oyster?

7. •  Why is money expensive to handle?

8. •  Could retailers charge more for taking cash?

9. •  What is a contactless payment?

10. •  Why do Japanese consider phones to be more secure than cash?

11. •  What is e-cash?

12. •  Compare payments in America : what is EasyPass

13. •  What is Paypal?

14. •  A decade ago some observers predicted that that internet banking would render high-street branches obsolete : discuss.

15. •  Fiche de vocabulaire.

 

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