The next frontier for cashless payments: Pocket money

Payments from parents to children are beginning to go cashless, with some new tools giving parents the option of making digital payments to children for chores.
Beyond a convenience factor, developers say financial education is an important objective of the digitization of parent-to-child payments.

Suman Bhattacharyya | July 06, 2017

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