Cash Per Diem

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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…

… note that as stories age the associated links may become either inactive or direct the viewer to unrelated items…

We hope you enjoy your Cash per Diem!

May 16 - 18 2012

Applied DNA Sciences – IIQ FY2012 financial results

Applied DNA Sciences in Sweden

ATMIA – ATMs & ADA lawsuits – webinar – June 6 2012

ATMIA – new US director named

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

DeLaRue in Kenya – update

Diebold in Jamaica

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

Is the bank branch obsolete?

Kenya – CBK to change currency designs in 3 years time

Kenya – harnessing mobile technology to promote development

Malawi – new K1000 banknote

Manually counting cash is one of the best ways to lose money in the retail business

Malta – counterfeits

Namibia – new banknotes

NCR – kiosks to dispense keys in hotels

Nigeria – mobile money future

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

Solomon Islands – new coins

UK – 200 Roman coins found in a field

UK – trying to pay an L800 debt with 1p & 2p coins

USA Technologies developments

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

Bhutan – ATM on wheels

Currency counterfeiting – infographic

DeLaRue – Greek withdrawal from eurozone could help business

DeLaRue in Kenya – update

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

India – RBI employees protest a plan by RBI management to distribute cash directly from RBI to private currency depots and bank 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

Lebanon – new banknotes

NCR & Postea Inc

New Zealand – trial of woman who spent $10m mistakenly put into her bank account

Nigeria – new coins & notes

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

Transoft in the Philippines

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

Bermuda – counterfeit US$20s

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 – new polymer substrate $20 gets negative reaction from some Canadians who don’t like the pictures

Canada – 40 arrested in Quebec card fraud ring

Canada – Canadian Tire currency

China – 1903 silver coin

CTIA/2012 conference feature many digital wallet ideas

Dollar Bank – remote deposit capture

Europe – many banks quietly preparing for the reemergence of the drachma

G&D settles patent case

India – RBI tells banks to check authenticity of all Rs100 notes & above

Indonesia – ATM skimming

Kenya – on mobile money

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

Smart phones – are mobile phones spreading faster than any other technological innovation in history?

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

Abu Dhabi – US counterfeits

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

Diebold in Australia

Germany – getting the color just right on euro banknotes (in german)

Israel – 500 of the first coins ever minted on display

Italy – “no cash day”

Kenya – M-Pesa infographic

Lebanon – 34 arrested for counterfeiting

Mastercard – evaluating the prospects for mobile payments across the world

NCR & CSI Leasing

NCR – customer feedback system

Nigeria – ATM fraud

Nigeria – location-based cashless option

Philippines – new banknote

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

DeLaRue in Kenya – update

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

How online black markets work

India – fake notes still being dispensed by bank ATMs

Indonesia – mobile payments

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

UK – the fiver is a survivor

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 – where money goes to die

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

Wincor Nixdorf in Bangladesh

April 27 – 30 2012

ATM Security Guide

Canada – Bank of Montreal adding 800 ATMs

DeLaRue in Kenya – update

Diebold – board of directors

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

NCR in New Zealand

Nigeria – costs of the cash-lite economy

Nigeria – image clearing of cheques

Post-cash, post-credit card economy – speculations in the New York Times

Securitas in Indonesia

South Africa – ATM bombings

Tanzania – counterfeits

UK – flood of L5 notes relieves the L5 note drought

UK – L5 cartoon

USA Technologies at NAMA

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

World Economic Forum – Rethinking Banking Innovation – Reducing Negative Outcomes While Retaining the Benefits – report

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

Coinstar – earnings preview

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

Europe – UK’s OFT comments on EC 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

Sweden – new banknote designs

SWIFT – Swift Institute launches research program on global transaction banking

Talaris – secure transfer concept for cash recyclers

Tanzania – fake banknotes

Trusteer blog – new developments in cheque fraud

US – have you ever found an ATM with a minimum deposit size?

US – TSA & loose change

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

Arjobex – synthetic papers

ATM Marketplace – amending EFTA to do away with frivolous & predatory ATM notice lawsuits

ATM Marketplace – ATMs & the unbanked

Australia – counterfeit $50s

Australia – counterfeit $20s

Azerbaijan – cashless payments

BankInfoSecurity – banks fighting fraud

Bitcoin in New Zealand

Cayman Islands – counterfeit detection training

Coin Conference, Berlin, March 12-13 2013

DeLaRue in Kenya – update

Diebold – management changes

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

Improving banknote security – high performance non-volatile organic ferroelectric memory on banknotes

India – solar-powered ATMs

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

Nanoparticles paper ($)

NCR – global innovation awards 2012

Nepal – central bank promotes clean money

Netherlands – cashless payments

Paytag vs cash

Real price of counterfeit money – infographic

South Africa – ATM bombings

Square – hacking into the device to see how it works

UK – counterfeit L20 notes

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 – armored carrier business

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 – retire the penny website

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

Vending – new developments

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?

DeLaRue in Kenya, update

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

InkSure Technologies update

Ireland – two jailed for CiT robberies

Italy – collecting Italian banknotes

Loomis – 2011 annual report

Namibia – increases in internet, banking & ATM fraud

NCR & smaller banks

NCR – IQ 2012 financial results

NCR & Inetco Systems

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

ATMs & automated deposits

Australia – ATMs & ATM fees

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

Cayman Islands – fake US$100s

Diebold moving 200 IT & back-office jobs to India

Europe – ATMs & cash trapping

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

Japan – biometric ATMs

Jordan – 3 foreigners arrested in skimming scheme

Juniper Research – mobile money transfer & remittances

Kenya – DeLaRue update

Kenya – DeLaRue update 2

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

Securitas in Spain

South Africa – theft of R5 coins

Tanzania – the prospects for an East Africa Currency Union

Technology – in 5 years all phones will be smartphones

UK – ATM & card skimming

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 – 31% of American support getting rid of the penny, figure rises to 59% when they learn it costs more to make one than its face value

US – government going paperless

US/Florida – Bulgarians bragging about ATM skimming, in Bulgarian, get a surprise

 

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