{"id":85700,"date":"2026-01-18T14:43:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/cash-makes-a-comeback-in-sweden-as-digital-payments-face-backlash\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:43:50","slug":"cash-makes-a-comeback-in-sweden-as-digital-payments-face-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/cash-makes-a-comeback-in-sweden-as-digital-payments-face-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash makes a comeback in Sweden as digital payments face backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden is widely seen as a model for moving towards a cashless society.<br \/>\nOnly around one in ten transactions in shops <!--more--> are now made using cash.<br \/>\nDigital payments have become the norm across most sectors of the economy.<br \/>\nHowever, a surge in online fraud has raised concerns about security.<br \/>\nCyberattacks have also targeted government agencies and major supermarkets.<br \/>\nThese risks have prompted authorities to reassess reliance on cashless systems.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Paul Rhys reports from near Stockholm.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AJSubscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/AJSubscribe<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us on X: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish<\/a><br \/>\nFind us on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera<\/a><br \/>\nCheck our website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nCheck out our Instagram page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aljazeeraenglish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aljazeeraenglish\/<\/a><br \/>\nDownload AJE Mobile App: <a href=\"https:\/\/aje.news\/AJEMobile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/aje.news\/AJEMobile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#Sweden #CashlessSociety #DigitalPayments #CashComeback #CyberCrime #OnlineFraud #CyberSecurity #Fintech #DigitalMoney #EconomicSecurity #PaymentSystems #EuropeEconomy #TechBacklash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden is widely seen as a model for moving towards a cashless society. Only around one in ten transactions in shops<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}