Cash Per Diem
Presented here are the daily contributions of a central banker… these are various stories to do with currency and related issues that range from the interesting to the bizarre…
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May 16 - 18 2012
Applied DNA Sciences – IIQ FY2012 financial results
Applied DNA Sciences in Sweden
ATMIA – ATMs & ADA lawsuits – webinar – June 6 2012
Azerbaijan – deployment of POS terminals will help reduce dependence on cash
Australia – on the decline of the cheque & the rise of cards – a study
Bangladesh – increasing numbers of ATMs
Banking – how ATMs might replace bank branch tellers
Canada – first polymer substrate $100 counterfeit found
Canada – lighter loonies create parking problems
Canada – pennies will be out on the Saskatoon transit system next week
Canada – Royal Mint financial results for 2011
Canada – will cheques become an anachronism?
China – 3 arrested in counterfeiting case
Coinstar – coffee, pictures & gadgets
Coinstar & PayPal – depositing cash at a Coinstar kiosk to get funds put into your PayPal account
DeLaRue & Greece – what are the prospects
Fiji – police warning about fake notes
India – fake notes found in bank cash vault
India – on the new currency distribution policy of RBI
Innovative Technology Ltd – new banknote validators
Ireland – businesses in small town are accepting old, pre-euro notes
Kenya – CBK to change currency designs in 3 years time
Kenya – harnessing mobile technology to promote development
Manually counting cash is one of the best ways to lose money in the retail business
NCR – kiosks to dispense keys in hotels
NPR Planet Money – Where do dollar bills come from?
Passing counterfeit money through retailers is a multi-million dollar business
Poland – toward a cashless society
UK – 200 Roman coins found in a field
UK – trying to pay an L800 debt with 1p & 2p coins
US – 1870-S $3 gold coin could sell at auction for as much as $4 million
US – nobody really likes the dollar coin
US – women, payments, banking & history
US/California – the ATM as art
US/California – visiting the San Francisco Mint
US/Missouri – state senate debates use of gold as state-specific legal tender
US/Pennsylvania – court hearing in Garda robbery/murder case in Pittsburgh
UVeritech webinar on intelligent cash handling – May 17 2012
Youtube – how the blind distinguish one banknote from another
Zimbabwe – on counterfeit foreign banknotes
99% Invisible podcast on the design of US & Australian currency
May 12 – 15 2012
Africa – mobile money transfer in subsaharan africa
Aite – mobile payments around the world
Australia – RBA manager charged with fraud in connection with Note Printing Australia
Currency counterfeiting – infographic
DeLaRue – Greek withdrawal from eurozone could help business
Fiji – Oberthur in breach of contract on delivery of high-tech passports
Fortress Paper – IQ 2012 financial results
France – 10 Bulgarians held in ATM skimming
G4S – Greek withdrawal from eurozone could help business
Greece – five difficult steps to leave the eurozone
GRGBanking & card-issuing ATMs
HSBC – contactless debit cards in the UK & Australia
India – Assam establishes 2 police units to address counterfeits & Maoist guerillas
India – full-service ATMs take the place of branches
International Coin Conference, 2013, Berlin, March 12-13
Ireland – 4 arrested in CiT robbery case
Ireland – moving transactions from cash to cards
Kenya – using M-Pesa to directly interact with your bank account
New Zealand – trial of woman who spent $10m mistakenly put into her bank account
Nigeria – cashless policy update
Nigeria – value per month of POS transactions reaches N2.3 billion
Peru – effects of mobile phone infrastructure – a study
South Africa – 15 ATM bombings in one province over 3 months
Swift – white paper on mobile payments & banking
Thailand – coins & money changers
UK – the curse of the Brinks gold robbery
UK – counterfeit coin ring is busted
US – Fifth-Third Bank, NCR, Phoenix Interactive & ATM upgrades
US – Mint production through April 2012
US – next generation check fraud
US – on the hobby of collecting old checks
US/Hawaii – ATM featuring Hawaiian language
US/Tennessee – $835k in counterfeit money orders
Vietnam – fake notes on the decline
Wincor Nixdorf in Saudi Arabia
Wincor Nixdorf sustainability report
Zambia – 2 ex-soldiers involved in CiT robbery & murder case sentenced
May 9 – 11 2012
Applied DNA Sciences – new security & forensic tools
BankInfoSecurity – ATM security – access doors under attack
Bitcoin, money laundering & other illicit activities – a report from the FBI (registration reqd)
Canada – new dollar coins look fake according to one commentator – a video
Canada – 40 arrested in Quebec card fraud ring
Canada – Canadian Tire currency
CTIA/2012 conference feature many digital wallet ideas
Dollar Bank – remote deposit capture
Europe – many banks quietly preparing for the reemergence of the drachma
India – RBI tells banks to check authenticity of all Rs100 notes & above
Kenya – warning about fake cash
Kenya – KBA launches ATM safety campaign
Loomis AB financial results for IQ 2012
Microfinance – study suggests that microfinance benefits are mixed
NCR self-checkout terminals in India
Nigeria – cash-lite developments
Nigeria – deployment of 150k POS terminals by yearend
Nigeria – 9000 new ATMs deployed already this year
Northern Ireland – banknotes from Northern Bank may soon bear the name Danske Bank
Payments fraud at the POS terminal
South Africa – 3 ATM bombings in a single day
South Africa – volume of ATM withdrawals on the rise
Uganda – arrest for fake money
UK – charity donations at ATMs
US – confusion over bank overdraft policies
US – dollar bill that survived Titanic (with a survivor) is certified as genuine
US – lets copy Canada & kill our penny
US – consumer acceptance of migration toward cashless or, at least, less cash
US – one reason why the generation just being born today will be comfortable with m-payments
US/Massachusetts – Tufts University study of the cost of cash in the United States
US/Massachusetts – cost of cash study proposal link
US/New Mexico – fake credit cards caught at the border
US/Pennsylvania – Garda robber/killer being moved back to Pittsburgh from Florida
May 5 - 8 2012
Applied DNA Sciences & counterfeit computer chips
Applied DNA Sciences & other purveyors of anti-counterfeiting for computer parts
Australia – banknote nostalgia
Australia – Suncorp Bank & Diebold
Canada – minting the digital currency of the future?
Canada – charities going after soon-to-be-extinct pennies
China – deranged woman chops banknotes into little pieces
Diebold financial results IQ 2012
Germany – getting the color just right on euro banknotes (in german)
Israel – 500 of the first coins ever minted on display
Lebanon – 34 arrested for counterfeiting
Mastercard – evaluating the prospects for mobile payments across the world
NCR – customer feedback system
Nigeria – location-based cashless option
Philippines – BSP counterfeit detection training
Philippines – BSP buys second Superline printer
Russia – jump in ATM fraud cases
Russia – Nigerian woman arrested with counterfeit cash
ScanCoin – take the cost out of cash white paper
Somaliland – mobile payments & cash
US – a talking Visa credit card? [spoof from The Onion]
US – ditch the dollar bill & the penny
US/Connecticut – Romanian sentenced for ATM skimming
US/Missouri – large-scale bank & payments fraud
Vietnam – banks consider charging for all ATM transactions
Zambia – rebasing the currency
Zambia – business preparedness for currency rebasing
May 1 – 4 2012
Applied DNA Sciences in Germany
Belarus – preparing for currency redenomination
Brazil – Edra Equipamentos develops a “green” ATM booth
Canada – debit card ring busted in Quebec
Canada – introduction of the polymer substrate $20
Canada – the last penny will be minted in May 4 2012
Coinstar EcoATM & the recycling of electronics
Cummins Allison & Bank of Montreal
Cummins Allison outlines steps to ease currency & coin management challenges
Denmark, Sweden & Canada & the evidence of migration to cashless
Diebold, Co-op Financial Services & video-enabled ATMs
Europe – Europol payment card fraud prevention alert
Europe – ECB recommendations about the security of online payments – paper
India – fake notes still being dispensed by bank ATMs
Ireland – help wanted at the banknote printing factory
Kenya – using M-Pesa to buy government bonds
Lithuania – central bank warns about stained notes (subscription reqd)
Mastercard blog – interview with David Wolman, author of The End of Money
Mastercard blog – survey examines the shift toward cashless payments
Mobile payments – study says to adapt laws alleviate consumer privacy fears
New Zealand – skimmers spent their ill-gotten gains in at least 8 other countries
Nigeria – cashless policy update
Paraguay – polymer substrate notes (in spanish)
Scan Coin – survey shows cash is here to stay
South Africa – mobile payments
Sweden – migration toward cashless
USA Technologies – proxy battle for control of the company
US – are nickels & pennies doomed or not
US – did Global Payments breach actually begin in summer 2011
US Mint introduces new option for ordering dollar coins
US/Missouri – ATM Solutions robbery – trial update
US/Oregon – welfare cards being used at a strip club
US/Pennsylvania – $1.3 million has been recovered from Garda armored robbery
April 27 – 30 2012
Canada – Bank of Montreal adding 800 ATMs
Diebold – Ohio senator objects to offshoring of jobs to India
Dubai – becoming counterfeiting hub for Indian currency
FRB Atlanta – why are my credit & debit cards still embossed?
Guam – counterfeit US Treasury checks
India – cash vs cashless transactions
India – spread of white-label ATMs
Israel – NICE & ATM network management
Italy – fake euros that even the experts admire
Kenya – connection between mobile money & inflation?
Mastercard blog – raising a generation of money-smart kids
Mobile money could gradually kill-off traditional cash
Nigeria – costs of the cash-lite economy
Nigeria – image clearing of cheques
Post-cash, post-credit card economy – speculations in the New York Times
UK – flood of L5 notes relieves the L5 note drought
US – authorities seize 36 websites engaged in selling stolen card numbers
US – Mint worker morale has improved
US – remote deposit, check clearing & money laundering
US/Illinois – workers at Wrigley Field accused of card skimming
US/Nebraska – cigarette butt foils ATM bandit
US/New York – gas station charges an extra $2 per gallon for use of credit cards
US/New York – FRB NY exhibit considers the art & politics of worthless money
US/Pennsylvania – guard in Garda robbery/murder case claims self-defense
Vatican City – ATMs that use Latin
Wincor Nixdorf – board of directors
Zimbabwe – on the use of US dollars
Zimbabwe – Mastercard blog comments on the country’s use of US dollars
April 24 – 26 2012
Africa – fears of mobile fraud slowing down acceptance of mobile payments
Australia – fire crew rescues woman with her fingers caught in an ATM
Authentix – management changes
BankInfoSecurity – cyber spin on check fraud
Bhutan – increase in counterfeit currency incidence
Brinks – financial results IQ 2012
CapGemini – World Retail Banking Report 2012
China – man stabbed for jumping the queue at an ATM
DeLaRue – Brandon Gough, former chairman, dies at 74
Diebold – financial results IQ 2012
Europe – EC green paper – towards an integrated European market for card, internet & mobile payments
Finland – retail payments & economic growth – study
France – banks called on to cut cheque processing in half
France – on the utilization of cheques – a study
India – credit card data hacked
Indonesia – counterfeits on Sumatra
IrisGuard – customer authentication at the ATM
JCM Global bill validator at a casino in Maine
Latin America – financial behavior of rural residents – a study
NCR – financial results & analysis
Nigeria – CBN discusses some of the problems with the cashless policy
Nigeria – currency outside banks & the central bank has declined by 12%
Oman – counterfeit currency warnings
PayPal – big ambitions in the real world
South Africa – on collecting coins & currency
Spain – Bulgarian ATM gang busted
SWIFT – Swift Institute launches research program on global transaction banking
Talaris – secure transfer concept for cash recyclers
Trusteer blog – new developments in cheque fraud
US – have you ever found an ATM with a minimum deposit size?
US/Massachusetts – ATMs accessible to the blind are rare
US/Pennsylvania – Garda robber caught in Florida
Visa – uptake of e-payments by governments around the world
April 20 – 23 2012
Africa – social networks thrive in a mobile culture
ATM Marketplace – amending EFTA to do away with frivolous & predatory ATM notice lawsuits
ATM Marketplace – ATMs & the unbanked
Azerbaijan – cashless payments
BankInfoSecurity – banks fighting fraud
Cayman Islands – counterfeit detection training
Coin Conference, Berlin, March 12-13 2013
E-commerce giants betting $100 million on disruptive technology
Fortress Paper management changes
FRB Atlanta – consumer protection – what to do when the consumer is the threat?
FRB Kansas City – mobile payments – what’s in it for consumers?
Improving banknote security with organic electronics
India – US Dept of Homeland Security offers to help with counterfeit problem
Malaysia – Nigerian student jailed for passing counterfeits
Mastercard blog - do you know what cash costs?
Nanoparticles to make paper waterproof & magnetic
NCR – global innovation awards 2012
Nepal – central bank promotes clean money
Netherlands – cashless payments
Real price of counterfeit money – infographic
Square – hacking into the device to see how it works
UK – some Britons may be allergic to new nickel-clad coin
UK – nickel allergy risk paper
US – 1792 penny sells for $1 million at auction
US – MIT physicist fights for the penny’s demise
US – NPR Planet Money analysis shows that the $1 banknote is more cost effective than the $1 coin
US – multi-ply plated steel for coins?
US/California – vending machine for pot
US/Pennsylvania – suit to adapt ATMs for the blind
US/Utah – gold & silver & legal tender
April 17 – 19 2012
Angola – increase in ATM transactions
ATM Marketplace – 2012 ATM Software Trends & Analysis – required reading
ATM Marketplace – study predicts slow growth for US ATM makers
ATM Marketplace – webinar on deposit automation – April 26 2012
Bankerstuff webinar – the things your ATM can do – May 9 2012
Canada – ATM attacks exploit lax security
CFT webinar – identifying & combating ATM skimming – April 26 2012
China – 9 banknote counterfeiters sentenced to jail terms ranging from 6 1/2 years to life
Cummins Allison urges government/business coordination on coin issues
Currency that could displace cash?
Diebold & FleetLocate GPS management system
Document Security Systems suing Coupons.com
FRB Chicago money museum – a visit
India – RBI looking for ways to increase the production of coin & currency
India – most popular counterfeit denominations are the Rs100 & Rs500
India – RBI urges banks to update systems so they can check for counterfeits
India – report discusses continued Pakistan/ISI production of counterfeit notes
Ireland – two jailed for CiT robberies
Italy – collecting Italian banknotes
Namibia – increases in internet, banking & ATM fraud
NCR – IQ 2012 financial results
New Zealand – ATM keyboards are infested with bacteria
New Zealand – new suspect in big ATM skimming case
Nigeria – cash-lite & worries about cyber-attacks
Pakistan – toward a less-cash economy
Pew – Future of Money in a Mobile Age
Pharmaceutical authentication – protecting the supply chain
Slovenia – Radece, banknote papermaker, slips into bankruptcy
Spain – euro counterfeit ring busted
Tanzania – Vodacom M-Pesa developments
UAE – some ATMs continue to reject the new banknotes
UK – new Jersey banknote with hologram feature
USA Technologies & cashless payments
US – 1792 penny may sell for more than $1 million
US – New York City #1 in e-commerce fraud among American cities
US – Pentagon looks at plant DNA to help foil electronic component counterfeiters
US – proposed legislation in House regarding ATM notice requirements
US – proposed legislation in House regarding steel penny
US – 1930s “Superman” check sells at auction for $160k
US – the duty of authenticate identity – the online banking breach lawsuits
US/New Jersey – NJ transit introduces banknote recyclers
US/New York – millions in fake checks & money orders intercepted at JFK Airport
Wincor Nixdorf – CINEO installation in POCO store in Germany
Wincor Nixdorf – expectations about financial & business results
World Bank – 3/4 of the world’s poor are unbanked – study
World’s most counterfeit-proof currencies (according to somebody)
April 13 – 16 2012
ATMIA conference – European ATMs, London, May 22-23 2012
Boston Consulting Group – Bill Nuti on reinventing NCR
Boston Consulting Group – role of government in generating support for mobile financial services
Canada – glow-in-the-dark commemorative 25c coin
Canada – migrating toward cashless
Canada – Royal Canadian Mint mintchip challenge website
Canada – Royal Canadian Mint – on the evolution of currency
Diebold moving 200 IT & back-office jobs to India
FRB Atlanta – online & mobile banking create many front doors
Global Payments breach details
Greece – town goes to bartering from the euro
Hologram Industries – sales & revenue results, IQ 2012
IBISWorld – report on ATM Manufacturing Industry
Iceland – mobile & contactless payments
India – advertising now being allowed on ATMs
India – ATM that sells diamonds & gold
India – counterfeit notes flowing to the public through banking channels
Iran – central bank issues warning after major credit card hack
Is a cashless society inevitable?
Italy – nanotech scientist creates waterproof, magnetic, antibacterial paper
Jordan – 3 foreigners arrested in skimming scheme
Juniper Research – mobile money transfer & remittances
Latin American high security printing conference, Rio de Janeiro, July 2012
Mastercard blog – why I don’t like cash – a video
NCR – new VP of global marketing
New Zealand – suspected card skimmers from Bulgaria arrested at the border
Nigeria – seizure of counterfeit financial instruments worth N250 billion
Nigeria – micro-finance banks are committed to the cashless policy
Nigeria – some Lagos traders miss out on cashless policy
Open Solutions & Burroughs SmartCash currency recycler
Securitas – 2011 annual report
South Africa – theft of R5 coins
Tanzania – the prospects for an East Africa Currency Union
Technology – in 5 years all phones will be smartphones
US – US$100s are tempting for collectors
US – on the ADA regulations affected ATMs
US – rise of mobile payments – infographic
US – the cybercrime wave that wasn’t
US – the Fed’s role in meeting the demand for cash
US – government going paperless
US/Florida – Bulgarians bragging about ATM skimming, in Bulgarian, get a surprise
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