Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – May 2014 Links
31 May, 2014
Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – May 2014 Links
May 27 – 31 2014
Accenture – paper – data privacy survey, US & UK
Afghanistan – digital currency could deter corruption
Argentina – vice president entangled in banknote corruption case
ATKearney – paper – the shadow economy in Europe
ATMs & biometric identification
Australia – is Royal Mint going to be for sale, will it keep the label royal?
Authentication science – authenticating wine & spirits
Currency News – preventing counterfeit coins
DeLaRue – awaiting Bank of England decision
Europe – EAST establishes expert group on ATM attacks
FRB KC – paper – mobile payments, merchant perspectives
FRB NY – blog – the piece-of-eight & the origins of the dollar
India – financial inclusion in Punjab
Indonesia – floating ATMs for remote islanders
Israel – restricting cash to fight money laundering
Israel – more detail on cashless initiative
KBA – business & financial developments
Krebs – ATMs, hackers & malware
Moneygram – money transfer kiosks
Nigeria – CBN committed to cashless policy
Nigeria – CBN rescinds rules about destroying stuck ATM cards
Parkeon & NuPark – cash displacement at the parking meter
Patent – Arjowiggins Security – high durability sheet for manufacturing banknotes
Patent – Fujitsu – self checkout method & apparatus
Patent – Horiba – colorant identification method & apparatus
Patent – Glory – paper sheet bundling apparatus
Patent – Imonex Services – apparatus & method for rejecting jammed coins
Patent – Innovia – security devices incorporating color shifting inks
Patent – International Currency Services – bill jam troubleshooting
Patent – Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba – sheets processing apparatus & method
Patent – PPG – microporous material containing a security feature
Patent – Xerox – embedding infrared marks in gloss security printing
Patent – Xu – cashbox & money identification device
Poland – map-shaped coin series
PwC – paper – 2014 cybercrime survey, US
Scotland – what will happen with the currency with independence vote
South Africa – counterfeiter in court
South Korea – KOMSCO, banknote & ID printing
Square – Dorsey’s first Square scribbles
US – 1864 banknote sells for $100k at auction
US/New York – charges in large-scale card fraud case
May 21 – 26 2014
Australia – pressure to redesign banknotes so they are accessible to the blind
China – report – currency sorter industry report 2014
Cummins Allison cash machines in Reasor Supermarkets
Forbes – on gold-backed alternative currencies
Forbes – why the US dollar coin is a failure
FRB NY – blog – on the history of disposal of unfit currency in the Fed
Fujitsu – what’s next for the ATM?
G&D & Bundesdruckerei merger overseas business
Ghana – central bank urges industry to work for cleaner notes
Ghana – stakeholders in the financial industry receive training in cash handling
Harvard economist examines the cost & benefits of phasing out paper currency
Harvard – paper – costs & benefits of phasing out paper currency
Harvard – paper – large banknotes, will the euro go underground
India – railway stations installing automated ticket machines
Indonesia – counterfeit banknotes in Bali
Kenya – cashless buses in Nairobi
Mercator – report – South American ATM Market
Nigeria – cashless policy, the journey thus far
Nigeria – POS transactions rising under the cashless policy
NPR – podcast – penny hoarders wait for the day the penny is decommissioned
Patent – Argoitia – taggant flakes for covert security applications
Patent – Bank of America – handicap accessible ATM
Patent – Bank of America – method for determining the value attributable to an ATM
Patent – GRGBanking – paper medium identifying device & identifying method
Patent – IBM – ATM with virtual bank sharing
Patent – Wincor Nixdorf – device for inputting securities into a container
Philippines – new legislation would penalize the hoarding of coins
Scotland – plastic banknotes in 2015
South Africa – Standard Bank mobile payments developments
South Africa – telcos & mobile money
Thailand – French national arrested with counterfeit ATM cards
UK – 20,000 counterfeit L1 coins in change machines
UK – on the history of the Mondex experiment
UniLink – currency authentication solutions
US – Edmund Moy opines on Bitcoin
May 13 – 20 2014
Applied DNA Sciences business & financial prospects
ATMIA legislative monitoring service
Australia – cash is still king
Australia – towards a cashless society
Authentication science – authenticating whiskey
Bankrate – survey – how much money does the typical American carry in his or her pocket
Brinks – new compusafe offering
Canada – vending machines & marijuana
Canadian Tire coupons used as scrip
Central banks & financial inclusion
China – man buys a car with 5 tons of coins
Deloitte – report – security concerns in mobile financial services
ECB – speech – euro banknotes, a means of payment worldwide
G4S – firm loses 3rd chief in 2 years
Hallmark Coins – lasers can improve the life of coin dies
Japan – Mint headquarters to move
Kenya – migration to chip & pin
Kenya – small businesses & mobile money
Mastercard – report – the road to financial inclusion
Nigeria – cashless policy developments
Nigeria – electronic payments & the cashless policy
NPR Planet Money – podcast – how much is a penny worth?
Ponzi schemes – video – about the original Ponzi & his scheme
Scotland – will independence kill Scottish banknotes
Square – slides – how Square is disrupting banking
UK – Exchequer passes tests for coins
UK – how the annoying half-penny coin was eliminated
US – cashless customers hold riches for retailers
US – how much money is lost every year to skimming?
May 8 – 12 2014
Applied DNA Sciences on new federal anticounterfeiting regulations
ATMs – fighting ATM theft with new technology
Australia – counterfeit A$50 & A$100 notes
Canada – master counterfeiter of US$20s gets off with light sentence
Diebold – business & financial prospects
Europe – only 1 in 5 Europeans wash their hands after handling soiled currency
Hong Kong – mobile payment revamp
India – how to identify pre-2005 forged currency
India – soiled currency being dispensed from ATMs
Innovia Films making L20 million investment to support Bank of England banknote contract
Kenya – instantaneous payments using the M-Pesa/Safaricom infrastructure
Nigeria – CBN spending huge amounts to produce nation’s currency
Nigeria – ATM growth may be stalling
Patent – Western Union – virtual cash exchange
Philippines – increase in electronic cash payments
Russia – ancient Roman coin find
UK – British coin sells for L430k at auction
UK – historic mint building in Birmingham being converted into apartments
US – Civil War era currency & scrip increasingly rare & valuable
US – how inkjet printers are increasing the challenge of fighting counterfeiters
US/California – 19th century gold coins found buried on display
US/Tennessee – federal court dismisses ATM fee lawsuit against WalMart
Wincor Nixdorf – European ATMs 2014
May 1 – 7 2014
Applied DNA Sciences & Intelligent Product Solutions
AstroSystems Ltd GBA banknote acceptors for E10s
ATM that protects itself from theft
ATMIA & EFTA issue paper on Bitcoin
Authentication science – smartphone sensors leave trackable fingerprints
Bangladesh – financial inclusion
Bitcoin transaction volume at its lowest level since 2011
Canada – credit card lab busted in Calgary
FDIC – paper – mobile financial services & economic inclusion
FFIEC statement on ATM cyber vulnerability
Fortress Paper – DuraSafe to be used for new Swiss franc
India – RBI banknote developments
India – RBI puts a hold on requirements that all ATMs & POS devices be biometric-capable
Italy – 1/2 of the country’s gold is in the FRB NY vault
JDS Uniphase earnings conference call
Myanmar – report – financial inclusion in rural Myanmar
NCR business & stock prospects
NCR – global leadership development program
Nigeria – demystifying the ATM experience
Nigeria – the cashless policy & the payments system
Numismatics – the facts about authenticating coins
Paper – electronic currencies for purposive degrowth
Patent – Arjowiggins Security – security thread
Patent – Bank of America – media handling device reject rate
Patent – Nautilus Hyosung – bundle bill/check acceptor
Philippines – BSP & banknote authentication
Poland – cashless payments on mass transit
Rare 158-year old postage stamp could sell for $20 million
Royal Canadian Mint – new commemorative coin
Royal Canadian Mint revenue in 2013
UK – British coins withstand 800 year old test
UK – mobile payments at High Street stores
UK – towards a cashless society
US – amusement machine lobby is concerned about possible changes in US coins
US – woman with an HP printer shows how easy it is to counterfeit US currency
US/Florida – former Secret Service agent pleads guilty
US/New York – Mt Kisco parking officer stole $89k from parking meters over 3 years
US/South Carolina – gold bars & coins found in shipwreck
Wincor Nixdorf – earnings & business prospects
