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Chevy Chase Bank?!

Mel

No, as long as the methodology is sound, a sample size of 1500 is plenty. An opinion poll of 1000 has a sampling error of 3%. You can get some more detail here.

Nick, it was just after midnight on a Saturday, she may have been a little 'tired and emotional'.

D Birch says: “P.S. I hope you'll support my e-petition to reintroduce tally sticks."

Didn't you set one up calling for the abolition of cash and cheques? Many signatures?

@ Christopher

On patents, I'm not sure of the exact situation but obviously Square is a US firm, currently only operating there. There are also similar, rival systems from both Intuit and Verifone.

On your second point, iZettle plans to start operating in other European countries within months. If you want to discuss licensing for developing countries I'd start by emailing hello@izettle.com.

Link to the PR

Michael, Link tells us: "UK atms are set up to read both chip and mag stripes - so you don't have to have a chip and PIN card to be able to withdraw cash."

With respect gentlemen, what a load of rubbish.

Murdoch senior's show of contrition was for the failures of others, he flat out denied any personal responsibility. As for junior, he simply employed vacuous management-speak, boring everyone into submission without saying anything of note. 

Dave

No, my granny is happy writing cheques because she is comfortable using them and is not sure about the alternatives. But that's inconceivable to the digital evangelists and so MPs are absolutely correct to step in and act on behalf of their constituents.

Brett

You're paying to support cheques despite not using them. Others are paying to build the online and mobile platforms you and I prefer despite not using them. Swings and roundabouts.

To be fair to the politicians (not something I normally want to be) I don't think they're saying to banks 'you can never abolish cheques' just that a better job needs to be done on the transition.

As for the alternatives, I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the idea of the "paper-based payment method" being floated...