China is pushing forward with the digitalization of its currency, which could reshape cross-border trade. Can the rest of the world afford not to follow?\u201cMom, please I need to get one,\u201d an irate Jeremy Crain stressed to his long-suffering mother.\u201cYou already got a PlayStation last Christmas, we are not getting you an Xbox as well young man.\u201d\u201cBut you don\u2019t understand, all the other kids have one and I can\u2019t play Halo with them online if I don\u2019t have it.\u201d\u201cThen you\u2019ll just have to find some other game to play with your friends, but we are not getting you another console just so you can talk with your friends, you\u2019re spending enough time on those things as it is.\u201dAs Jeremy stormed off into another room, he fumed at how his mother was being unreasonable, how she didn\u2019t understand, or what it was like to be teenage boy using a PlayStation while everyone else was on Xbox.But to the uninitiated, Jeremy\u2019s complaints might sound misguided, even unreasonable, because after all, aren\u2019t all gaming consoles about the same?PlayStation gamers and Xbox gamers swam within their own lanes.Deciding which console you wanted, whether an Xbox or a PlayStation was often more a function of which games you wanted to play than performance of the equipment.For a teenage boy, the cost of not having the right console can be a matter of social life or death, and potentially comes with exclusion from social outings, events and conversations.Imagine what exclusion must feel like for banks.Are you one of us?Banking is a network and it depends on an intricate web of relationships to ensure that money from a place like Caracas, can make it to a place like Cochin.And exclusion from that network can not just be costly, it can be crippling.International business is facilitated by a\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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