One of the UK’s biggest success stories in the homelessness sector, The Big Issue, is currently a cash transaction. The vendor buys the magazines for half the cost of the cover price, and in selling the magazine on at face value starts to build their business (as well as rebuild their confidence, status, and ultimately one would hope, their life). Recently, however, a small number of sellers have started to move with the technological times, and have begun accepting payments using iZettle, a mobile card reader. While details can't yet be fully disclosed, the magazine's charitable arm - the Big Issue Foundation - is also working with banks to make sure vendors have access to cashless transactions - and in doing so escape the catch 22 of not having a bank account.