An woman walks past a bank branch advertising debit cards in central Athens
An woman walks past a bank branch advertising debit cards in central Athens, Greece, October 13, 2015. Greece lags far behind other EU countries in non-cash transactions. But Greeks have suddenly fallen in love with payment by plastic after capital controls were imposed in late June and banks were shut for three weeks. About one million cash cards were issued in July and August in a population of 11 million, compared to about 100,000 a month before the capital controls, said Athanasios Geramanis, the country manager for Mastercard, one of the four payment services available in the country. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis