Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – April 2014 Links
29 April, 2014
Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – April 2014 Links
April 26 – 30 2014
Applied DNA Sciences has helped jail 88 CiT robbers
Authentication science – fighting counterfeit olive oil
Authentication science – will body parts eventually come to displace payment cards – video
Brinks blog – the Canadian penny, retrospective
Chuck Norris, yes that Chuck Norris, opines on coin & currency
Coin history – why did Byzantine Empire coins become cup-shaped?
Diebold – new leader for Europe/Middle East/Africa division
FraudFighter blog – counterfeit currency detection is good for your community
FRB Atlanta – paper – how Americans pay
FRB San Francisco – paper – on the use of cash in the United States
G&D & the central bank of France
G&D business performance in 2014 looking better
Ghana – on the use of ATM cards for debit transactions at POS
Iceland – replacing smallest banknote
India – counterfeit Indian currency produced in Pakistan found in Bangladesh
India – RBI & delays in the introduction of plastic substrate notes
Innovia Group sold to Arle Capital
Italy – town near Naples is Europe’s counterfeit currency capital
Kenya – toward cashless payments in parking
Kroger QueVision wins innovation award
NCR – cash recycling ATMs in Russia
Nigeria – issuance of bank verification numbers
Overseas Development Institute – paper – on remittances in Africa
Patent – Coin Acceptors Inc – method for examining a coin to determine validity & denomination
Payments primer – what is credit card skimming?
Philippines – BSP Cash Management Center & commercial banks
Poland – First Data, Nautilus Hyosung ATMs & Cooperative Banking Group
Thailand – Malaysian ATM skimmers arrested
UK – 400-year old coins unearthed by metal detectors
UK – artist uses pennies to make his artwork
UK – L50 banknote that is being withdrawn
UK – pennies from WWII in a pub
UK – retailers indicated cash is no longer if the king of payments
US/Georgia – bust of meth lab & counterfeit operation
US/Wisconsin – consumer warning about check washing
April 19 – 25 2014
ATM Marketplace – ATM isn’t dying, it is being transformed
Authentication science – nano fingerprints & card fraud
Bitcoin – the high cost in terms of electricity for successfully mining the coins
CapGemini – World Retail Banking Report 2014 – a must read
Contactless payments that use your clothes rather than your cards
Cummins Allison & the casino business
Cummins Allison & self-service coin counter
India – challenges in the rollout of new plastic substrate notes
India – RBI warns that high-quality paper & ink supplies may be falling into counterfeiters’ hands
Jamaica – taxes on ATM withdrawals & electronic payments
Kenya – 10.2 million debit card holders
NCR – considering another headquarters move?
Nigeria – banks installing anti-skimming devices on ATMs
Nigeria – financial incentives to shift payments to electronics
Pakistan – ATMs for the visually-impaired
Russia – coins issued to commemorate Crimea reunification
South Africa – fingerprint biometrics at the ATM
Tanzania – promoting bank accounts
Thailand – 4 arrested for counterfeiting
UK – 2 arrested in pound coin counterfeiting
UK – Royal Mint visitors center
US Bank completes companywide ATM Windows platform upgrade
US – 150th anniversary of in god we trust appearing on US money
US – history of the design of the penny
US – history of the Kennedy 50c coin
US – inside story on the Sacajawea dollar coin
US – Liberty-head $20 double eagle coin
US – Mint seeks public comment on coin changes
US – Mint produced over 1 billion coins in March
US – study of the microbes that live on $1 bills
US – video tellers vs bank branches
US/Georgia – coins from an antebellum mint in Georgia
US/Illinois – Chicago-centered ATM & card fraud scheme with Bulgarian connections
US/Massachusetts – ATM safety legislation
Wharton – microfinance lessons from developing countries
Zimbabwe – will the domestic Z$ be reintroduced?
April 14 – 18 2014
Africa – technological edge on display in banking & payments (Atlantic)
Applied DNA Sciences & Micross Components
Australia – CSIRO faces budget cuts
Authentication science – biometrics market will be worth over $20 billion by 2020
Authentication science – new barcode could make counterfeiters lives more difficult
Authentication science – tiny particles could help authenticate goods
BAI – outlook for ATMs after windows
Crane Merchandising Systems & MEI
Diebold – new set of product offerings
Federal Reserve – study – consumers & mobile financial services
FRB Boston – conference – economics of payments
Kenya – Kenswitch instant cash transfers
NAMA & US Mint webinar, April 23
National Geographic – photo-essay – life on $1 a day
Nigeria – illegal to sell new banknotes at a premium
Patent – Wells Fargo – system & method for receiving ATM deposits
Payment Alliance International & Ventura County CU
UK – L1 1864 note from Jersey sells for nearly L2000
UK – money clippers in 16th century England
US – Mint coin production through March 2014
US – Mint seeks comment on the future of US coinage
US/Colorado – vending machine that sells marijuana & snacks
US/Michigan – armored truck dumps $1 million on the road
US/Wisconsin – check fraud ring
WSJ – cash is king but plastic is gunning for leadership
April 6 – 13 2014
Africa – digital payments in SubSaharan Africa
ATM defense – protecting money with a method borrowed from an aggressive beetle
Australia – Westpac buys the country’s oldest note
Brinks blog – clever (non-transactional) uses for small change
Canada – new notes remind citizens of WWI
Canada – Royal Mint & Prince Rupert’s mask
Cantaloupe Systems & CompuVend Systems
Cetologic & Randolph Brooks FCU
Converting old vending machines to cashless payments
DavisWrightTremaine LLC – slide deck – cryptocurrencies – bitcoin & beyond
Dawn of web payments & web payment standards
Diebold – executive receives award
Digital cash will starve the homeless?
Experian – webinar – payment strategies
India – carefully examine the backs of notes to make sure they are genuine
India – counterfeits sneaking into banks in Uttar Pradesh
India – Hitachi installs 1000 cash recycling ATMs
Kenya – mobile payment developments
Louisenthal wins best new currency feature award
NCR – business & financial prospects
Optimizing cash-management in the retail industry
Patent – Bank of America – apparatus for redundancy in an ATM
Patent – Glory – cassette, banknote processing machine & method
Patent – NCR – media identification
Patent – Spectra Systems – use of photo-catalytic materials for self cleaning banknotes
Patent – Xerox – toner processes
Philippines – BSP study on ATM interchange fees
Philippines – on the exchange of mutilated coins & notes
Russia, Belarus & Khazakstan to have a shared currency
Saudi Arabia – cash vs card usage
Talking about money & why we value it – infographic
Thailand – Romanians arrested with counterfeit ATM cards
Turkey – how to tell old coins from new
UK – designing the reverse side of the new L1 coin
UK – London buses will go cashless in July
UK – on the inspection/authentication of polymer substrate banknotes
UK – the largest UK banknote denomination ever, L1 million, comes up for auction
UK – what’s lurking inside the Bank of England’s vaults?
US – laundromats, cashless does not captivate a majority of operators – survey
US – Mint should stop making pennies, editorial
US – retire the penny & nickel
US – toward a cashless society
US/California – low denom counterfeits
Venezuela – demand for the dollar
Vietnam – TSYS introduces biometrics to branch & ATM transactions
What’s so good about a cashless society?
Wincor Nixdorf & GS1 standards
Wincor Nixdorf in Western Europe
April 1 – 5 2014
Argentina – new banknote features Falklands
Australia – building a financial system for a cashless age
BAI Banking Strategies – innovation in payments
Canada – how to identify counterfeits
Cummins Allison – on bank branch strategy
India – counterfeit note challenge
India – RBI on financial inclusion
Japan – Mint making coins for Brunei
Kroger – retail site intelligence
McGladrey – report – 2014 financial institutions systems report
Namibia – banknotes withdrawn from circulation
NCR & FirstCapital Bank of Texas
Nigeria – who were Sanusi’s CBN supervisors
TSYS – report – 2014 Canadian Consumer Payments Systems report
UK – Bank of England releases historical documents
UK – how Paym mobile payments works – video
UK – sunken ship from WWII salvaged for silver, being minted
USA Technologies & cashless vending
US – checks are expendable, cash is king
US – toward a cashless society?
US – why is the US behind other parts of the world in card technology – video
US/Pennsylvania – woman pays sewer bill with small change
What if paper banknotes were invented in the 21st century
