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Digital assets and currencies

Understand assets, networks and trading mechanics with sources you can check.

Payments & settlement

Gift card

A gift card, also known as a gift certificate in North America, or gift voucher or gift token in the UK, is a prepaid stored-value money card, usually issued by a retailer or bank, to be used as an alternative to cash for purchases within a particular store or related businesses. Gift cards are also given out by employers or organizations as rewards or gifts. They may also be distributed

Finance

List of business and finance abbreviations

This is a list of abbreviations used in a business or financial context.

Payments & settlement

PaysafeCard

PaysafeCard (until 2024 stylized paysafecard) is a prepaid e-commerce payment solution powered by vouchers. It is part of Paysafe, a global payments platform. PaysafeCard allows customers to pay online without providing personal financial information.

Payments & settlement

Truck wages

Truck wages are wages paid not in conventional money but instead in the form of payment in kind (i.e. commodities, including goods and/or services); credit with retailers; or a money substitute, such as scrip, chits, vouchers or tokens. Truck wages are a characteristic of a truck system, and are banned by the labour legislation of many countries.

Payments & settlement

Voucher

A voucher is a bond which is worth a certain monetary value and which may be redeemed only for specific reasons or on specific goods.