Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – January 2013 Links
31 January, 2013
Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – January 2013 Links
January 28 – February 1 2013
Australia – RBA feared a banknote shortage might occur in the midst of the financial crisis
Australia – RBA study – Currency Demand during the Global Financial Crisis: Evidence from Australia
Australia – RBA – former manager of RBA’s damaged banknote division accused of stealing $350k
BankInfoSecurity blog – ATM Cash-Out: Why Banks Are at Risk
Brinks appoints chief commercial strategy officer
Canada – who will benefit most from the elimination of the penny?
China – counterfeit 100-yuan notes
eco-ATM can now recycle tablet computers along with cell phones
Economist Intelligence Unit study of humans & machines in financial services
Europe – study – Europe online payments 2012
Europe – the option to direct-charge at the ATM
Fortress Paper – making the most secure money in the world
France – central bank workers strike over significant downsizing, especially in cash
G4S – names new business development manager for mid-atlantic region
GRGBanking Equipment & the German electronic purse
Hong Kong – ATM security measures
India – large numbers of counterfeit notes deposited at ICICI branches
India – passenger from Dubai caught at Kochi Airport with a large quantity of counterfeits
Iran – problems with ATM & POS systems
Ireland – 17th century gold coins found under the floor of a pub
Ireland – tycoon’s daughter withdrew €340k from ATMs over a year to pay legal expenses
Japan – will the central bank issue 50,000 yen banknotes?
JDS Uniphase – management discusses 2013 IIQ business results
Malaysia – mother & daughter arrested for counterfeiting
Mastercard – study on the potential for growth in Africa
Nationwide Automated Systems Inc receives #1 rating for ATM management
Netherlands – Europe should scrap the E500 note
Philippines – BSP fighting coin hoarding & banknote counterfeiting
UK – counterfeit warning from Northern Ireland police
UK – should the penny be abolished?
US – about the Professional Coin Grading Service
US – 1913 nickel may sell at auction for more than $2 million
US – Euromonitor study – ATM cards in the US
US/Massachusetts – Braintree Printing uses the same paper counting equipment as the BEP
US/Massachusetts – man claims to have received counterfeits from Sovereign Bank
US/Massachusetts – suspect counterfeits turn out to be notes from the 1970s
US/Michigan – Garda sued for violation of labor laws
US/New Hampshire – check fraud ringleader receives 3-year sentence
Uzbekistan – bans sale of banknotes to foreigners
Vietnam – government seeks to restrict large-value currency transactions
Website recommendation – the digital banking club
Zambia – on the durability of the new kwacha notes
January 23 – 28 2013
Angola – new coins, new banknotes
Applied DNA Sciences & the US Defense Logistics Agency
Are you ready for a cashless society?
Australia – 20c coin to celebrate 100 years of Canberra
Australia – Securency – 2 reporters from the Age ordered to testify
Bangladesh – central bank pumping more coins into the market
Bangladesh – cost of printing new currency is on the rise
Biometrics – knees are added to an inventory that includes fingerprints, handprints & iris scans
Bridges to cash – channelling agency in mobile money
Canada – Bank of Canada exhibit on the penny
Canada – the penny also does not show a Canadian maple leaf
Cash Connect – CashTrack web portal
Diebold – changes in senior leadership
Diebold – sets aside $18m to address international bribery case
Diebold – new vision for ATM & cash machines
Evolution of the digital money ecosystem
Financial Inclusion 2020 initiative
Finland – 1866 2c coin sells for E17k
FRB Atlanta – the collision between technology & payments
FRB New York – what was banking like in 1960?
FRB Philadelphia – changes in the use of electronic means of payment, 1995-2010
Ghana – 1000 ATMs have been deployed
India – SBI ATM systems upgrade
Indonesia – currency redenomination campaign
JPMorganChase – ATMs dispensing $1s & $5s will help reduce branch staff levels
Kenya – 500-year old Chinese coin found, suggesting early transoceanic trade
NCR Silver & 600 Cellairis retail locations
New Zealand – Dr Who commemorative coins
Oman – disfiguring banknotes is against the law
Russia – fighting counterfeit rubles
Soft currencies, cash economies & new monies
Thailand – could the mint produce for other countries?
TRUSTe survey shows heightened concern about mobile privacy in the UK & US
UK – Anonymous hackers sentenced 18-months for attacking PayPal
UK – Bank of England scandals — in 1783
UK – counterfeits used to buy a car
UK – £2 coin to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the London Tube
UK – £1 million & £100 million banknotes
USA Technologies & Fresh Health Vending
US – 1794 dollar sells for $10 million, an auction record
US/Iowa – Dwolla becomes available for making payments to the state
US/Maryland – 32-year sentences in CiT robbery case
US/South Carolina – 6-year sentence for guard involved in CiT robbery
US/Texas – safety questioned in the CiT industry
US/Virginia – high quality counterfeits
Zambia – K6 trillion of new banknotes have been printed
January 19 – 23 2013
Abu Dhabi – new coins are not compatible with parking meters
Argentina – central bank imposes a cap on ATM fees
Australia – Ezeatm & Australian United Retailers
Brinks – earnings expectations
Canada – is the maple leaf on the new $20 a Norwegian or a Canadian variety?
Canada – last 1c pieces to be distributed on February 4
Canada – on the impending demise of the penny
Canada – US counterfeits in BC
Could dirty banknotes & consumers’ propensity spend them quickly stimulate the economy?
Cummins Allison on the value of self-service coin counters
Diebold – new chairman of the Board
Europe – France & Germany issuing new 2 euro coin
Fiserv – study – US consumer bill payment practices
FRB Boston – interactive trivia test on US currency
G4S GiroVend, Fidelity Systems PLC & cashless payments
India – Citibank & paperless payments
India – counterfeit ring uncovered
India – Micro Technologies Ltd & ATM security
Indonesia – banknotes & their many zeros
Mastercard blog – the future contactless, cashless world
Mastercard blog – what makes cash so costly
Mercator – report – consumers & cash
Mobile technologies will improve the lives of the world’s poor
MoneyGram joins anti-counterfeiting coalition
Nationwide Building Society, i-design Group & ATMs
NCR, PayPal & paying your restaurant tab
Nigeria – counterfeit dollar & naira notes
OliverWyman – paper – the state of the financial services industry 2013
Philippines – cashless developments
Ponemon – paper – study of retail banks & DDoS attacks
Romania – find of 16th century coins from the Ottoman Empire
Russia – Olympics commemorative banknotes
Tajikistan – Russian national arrested for counterfeiting
Taztag & authentication at the ATM (video)
Thailand – ATM fees & network costs
UK – homeowner robbed of L10k in loose change
US – company to pay FTC $750k fine for selling fake 9-11 commemorative coins
US – 1794 silver dollar at auction
US – how the Civil War united the nation’s money (subscription)
US – Mint – silver shortage results in suspension of silver commemoratives
US – suit filed to remove in god we trust from the money
US/Illinois – Chicago couple glue 60k pennies to their bedroom floor
US/Oregon – leader of counterfeit gang receives 3-year sentence
US/Pennsylvania – on the difficulty of spotting some ATM skimming devices
US/South Dakota – university pilots a cashless society
US/Texas – counterfeit ring is busted
Visa – alert issued to banks about ATM card fraud
Wincor Nixdorf financial & business prospects
Zambia – banknotes & their many zeros
January 16 – 19 2013
Antigua – warning about fake $20s & $50s
Applied DNA Sciences & Forward Components Engineering
Australia – counterfeit warning in NSW
ATMIA – best practices library
Canada – can you melt a banknote?
Canada – Winnepeg transit will refuse pennies from Feb 1
Cisco – study – on the habits of digital shoppers
Coins – 17th century innovations in coin
Consult Hyperion – podcast series – Payfone
Diebold sells off vault door & secure filing cabinet businesses
FRB Chicago – paper – developing a roadmap to improve the US payments system
India – Rs5 coin counterfeiters
India – coin vending machines (to vend coins) being distributed to banks
India – RBI inquiring about ATM denial-of-service
India – the prospects for mobile banking
Kenya – central bank developing cashless transaction guidelines
Latin America – Kaspersky Labs, Safensoft & ATM security
Malta – counterfeit euros in IIH 2012
Mastercard – a public/private dialogue on the cost of cash
Mastercard on financial inclusion in Africa
Munzprufer Berlin – coin counter & counterfeit detector
Nigeria – ATM transactions are not fast, resulting in long queues
Nigeria – Interswitch introduces SafeToken in pursuit of cashless policy
Oman – high-speed currency processing via G&D at central bank
Philippines – cashless payments
Poland – getting ready to eliminate the penny
Sweden – Loomis AB & Bankomat AB
Syria – Assad puts his picture on the banknotes for the first time
Tanzania – M-Pesa & mobile payments
Uganda – Bulgarian ATM skimmers face more charges
US – Chase & PNC installing ATMs capable of dispensing $1s & $5s
US/California – man pays $14k tax bill in all coins & $1 bills
US/Florida – ARCA teller cash recyclers at Suncoast Schools FCU
US/Nevada – card-enabled parking meters in Las Vegas
US/Pennsylvania – ATM accessibility lawsuits
Vending – a coke machine that can handle multiple currencies
Vietnam – recirculating old coins to help alleviate coin shortages
Wincor Nixdorf – board of directors
Zimbabwe – central bank warns public about “miracle money”
January 12 – 15 2013
Applied DNA Sciences & Premier Semiconductor Services
Australia – federal police looking into international bribery allegations beyond the Securency case
Canada – new stamp issue from Canada Post
Canada – some vending machines still incompatible with the new $20
Diebold – new ATM concepts (video)
Germany – 100 foot tunnel to rob a Berlin bank
Ghana – on the use of ATM cards in POS devices
Hologram Industries – IIH 2012 financial results
India – on the use of glue to perpetrate theft at ATMs
ISO 12931 anti-counterfeiting guidelines
Kenya – Visa calls for implementation of chip-&-pin
Mastercard – 85% of the world’s retail trade still done with cash
NCR mobile shopper in Wisconsin
Nigeria – CBN says banks have saved N40 billion from cashless policy
Nigeria – Mastercard CEO praises cashless policy
Nigeria – cashless policy developments
Nigeria – former CBN official enmeshed in Securency case says he was not arrested, just questioned
Nigeria – Soludo may be charged in the Securency case
Triton & remote ATM monitoring
UAE – swindler uses demonitized Kuwaiti currency
Ukraine – treasure of Roman coins
US – silver nickel from 1792 sells for $1.4 million at auction
US – the Fed, the trillion dollar coin & seignorage
US – trillion dollar coin – editorial cartoon collection
US – trillion dollar coin – a limerick
US/Georgia – high-quality counterfeits uncovered in 20 states
US/New Jersey – 2 Romanians held in $1 million ATM fraud
Tanzania – on ATM & card safety
Thailand – fighting card fraud
Zambia – merchants are avoiding new kwacha coins
January 9 – 12 2013
Ace Bronze – blog – history of coining processes
Applied DNA Sciences – financing
Australia – Securency – Age journalists called to testify
Australia – Securency – fraud case extends to Nigeria
Book suggestion – Black Money, by Brij Bhardwaj
Canada – charities encouraging penny collection before its too late
Canada – CU ATM marketing campaign
Deloitte – study – payments & telecommunication infrastructure security & resiliency
Europe – counterfeit notes in 2012
Finextra – blog – the death of cash is 190 years away
FRB Atlanta – blog – smart phones are smarter than we thought
FRB Kansas City – study – new debit card regulations – initial effects on networks & banks
FRB New York – blog – banks in New England in the early 19th century
GRGBanking Equipment installs a cash recycler in German casino
India – ATM problems end with bank ombudsman
Kenya – maximizing the usefulness of smartphones (video)
Kenya – new technology to fight ATM skimming
NCR – mobile POS consulting services
NICE – biometric technology to defend against identity theft in banks
Patent – Bank of America – multi-account cash recycling
Patent – Hyogo-Japan – banknote storing & feeding unit
Patent – Think Laboratory Ltd – laser exposure method & product
Patent – Wincor Nixdorf – checkout system
Shazam – US, EMV & magnetic stripe replacement
South Africa – counterfeit Mandela notes
South Africa – is cash still king?
Uganda – women & rural villagers most vulnerable to ATM & card fraud
UK – YourCash Ltd & the casino business
USA Technologies – mobile interactive coupons & loyalty services
USA Technologies – new customer agreements
US – Mint – who came up with the trillion dollar coin idea?
US – Mint – more on the trillion dollar coin
US – Treasury Secretary designate has a very peculiar signature
US/Arizona – identity theft, mail fraud & forgery
US/Colorado – counterfeit ring
US/Georgia – should the state set up its own currency based on gold & silver?
January 5 – 8 2013
Africa – M-Pesa & cashless payments
Canada – are germs accumulated on the surface of polymer notes?
Canada – coin in New Brunswick exhibit dates back to the War of 1812
Canada – Royal Canadian Mint wins Coin of the Year award
Canada – Royal Canadian Mint commemorative of 1913 Artic Expedition
Canada – problems with vending machines & the new $20
Consult Hyperion – podcast series – iZettle
Diebold – reimagining the ATM experience
Egypt – Egyptian pound turns 114
Europe – European ATM Security Team advice on ATM & card fraud
Europe – Europol reports on the levels of card fraud on the continent
Fortress Paper – shareholder rights plan
FRB NY blog – origins of the piggy bank
G4S & cash center automation in the Netherlands
Germany – euro banknote (in german)
Glory & cash processing in the retail sector
India – detecting counterfeit notes in police stations
India – SBI & its ATM transactions
Iraq – archeologists find 66 gold coins that are 1400+ years old
Namibia – ATM “millionaire” petitions for release for jail
Nigeria – shift in implementation dates for cashless beyond Lagos
Patent – Money Controls Ltd – money item acceptor
Scientific American – on plastic banknotes
Singapore – ring selling fake gold items to the elderly
Somalia – Sudan-printed banknotes are postponed
Turkey – cardless cash withdrawals at the ATM
UK – using counterfeit-detector-pens on suspect banknotes
USA Technologies – IIQ FY 2013 financial results
US – counterfeit money being produced on everyday office equipment
US – how much gold is in Fort Knox
US – Ron Paul’s Free Competition in Currency Act
US – trillion dollar platinum coin – Stephen Colbert mocks the idea (video)
US – trillion dollar platinum coin – former director of the US Mint says it is legal
US/Illinois – 12 indicted in large check fraud scheme
US/New York – remembering the 1993 Brinks robbery in Rochester, 20-years later (video)
January 2 – 4 2013
Abu Dhabi – parking meters rejecting new coins
ATMs – 12 biggest developments in 2012
Australia – banknote security breach
Australia – is mobile banking a threat to ATM supremacy?
Bitcoin – the next big threat to banks’ turf?
Brazil – technique to authenticate whiskey
Business of counterfeiting worldwide – infographic
Canada – on the cost of withdrawing the penny
Canada – is the nickel the next coin on the chopping block?
Canada – one month until the recall of pennies
Canada – on the melting of banknotes
China – 3500 kg of ancient coins
Consult Hyperion – podcast series – Voice Commerce Group
Hong Kong – auction of rare Chinese & Asian banknotes
India – speech by RBI official profiles the country’s payments system & challenges
Ireland – Vodafone contemplating application for a bank charter
Italy – archeologists in Rome find remains of Byzantine era mint
NCR – paper – driving the ROI of the ATM through managed services
NCR – protecting POS system & back-office integrity
New Zealand – low counterfeit banknote rate
Nigeria – fraud prevention & detection in a cashless economy
Pakistan – cash shortages in ATMs in Islamabad
Patent – Bank of America – method & apparatus for improving access to an ATM during a disaster
Patent – Elliott – method of using paper checks tied to prepaid debit cards
Patent – EZShield – system & method of providing recovery to victims of check fraud
Patent – Fujitsu Frontech – swirling vane wheel accumulating apparatus
Patent – Glory – paper sheet handling machine & method
Patent – Oki Electric Industry – apparatus for banknote processing
Patent – Western Union – money transfer systems & methods
Patent – Wincor Nixdorf – document input module
Philippines – ATMs for the blind
Sudan – history of the currency & coin
Tanzania – fightning ATM skimming
UK – losing the war against cybercrime?
UK – ATM “distraction gang” in Manchester
UK – book – Casualities of Credit - the English Financial Revolution, 1620-1720
US – the Mint, the vending industry & possible new composition of the penny & nickel
US – Starbucks starts to sell the Square device to its customers
US/New York – Kurrenci, a new virtual currency, makes its appearance
US/Utah – electronic stun gun used to disable coin machines & steal the contents
Using coins to help understand how medieval societies adapted to Islam
Website of interest – National Currency Foundation
Wincor Nixdorf & digital wallets
