Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – June 2014 Links
29 June, 2014
Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – June 2014 Links
June 25 – 30 2014
Africa – on the adoption of mobile payments
Arrow Coated Products – DNA taggants
Botswana – first cash-deposit ATM
Bulgaria – seizure of counterfeits
China – currency sorter market report
European Payments Council – overview of mobile payments initiatives
GAO – study – virtual currencies
India – RBI & financial inclusion
Latin America high security printing conference
Nigeria – microfinance banks & the cashless policy
Peru – ancient counting, accounting, money find
Peru – police seize US$4.5 million in counterfeits
Seychelles – counterfeit warning
UK – 17 million workers frustrated with cash payments – Visa survey
UK – cashless experiment for a day
UK – how a Dutch ring flooded the country with fake L1 coins
UK – L2 coin may feature Edith Cavell
June 18 – 24 2014
ACI & Aite – paper – card fraud around the world
ATM Marketplace – the rise of the ATM & self-service
Australia – guide to saving on ATM fees
Banco de Espana – paper – why does cash matter
British Guiana – 1850s 1c stamp sells for US$8.5 million
Canada – US$1000 certificate from 1795 surfaces at Canadian auction house
Cardtronics – Allpoint network to accept cash & check deposits at all 2500 ATMs
Cash is still king in many places
Cato Institute – stamps & hyperinflation
CetoLogic & Mississippi Valley CU
Cummins Allison in the casino industry
Cummins Allison & cheque processing in Canada
DeLaRue – positive about the future
Deloitte – report – on retail banking in Europe
Germany – towards cashless payments
Ghana – uptake of mobile money
India – ATM & POS receipts may be cancerous
India – mobile wallets & financial inclusion
India – SBI expanding POS connectivity
India – smart cities with wifi connectivity
India – white-label ATM business
Indonesia – banknote designs in circulation on the internet are not the genuine design
Indonesia – central bank tests Spectra Systems’ banknote cleaning technology
Indonesia – central bank warning about counterfeits during Ramadan
iovation – paper – 2014 mobile fraud report
Ireland – toward the extinction of business cheques
Japan & Indonesia banknote printers to share information
Kenya – cashless payments on buses
Kenya vs South Africa in m-banking & m-payments
Kuwait – banknotes deficient in security features
Loomis signs cash management contract with major US bank
New Zealand – cash-strapped charities refusing cash contributions
Nigeria – cash-intensive economy promotes crime
Nigeria – CBN indicates progress on cashless policy
Patent – Arjowiggins Security – element for security document comprising optical structure
Patent – DeLaRue – system & method for detecting tape on a document
Patent – London Metropolitan University – luminescent compounds, complexes & their uses
Patent – Lumenco LLC – slanted lens interlacing
Patent – NCR – media item characterization
Patent – Toshiba – e-check & e-commerce
Russia – not going to plastic substrate for banknotes
Spectra Systems settles shareholder lawsuit
Sweden/Riksbank – paper – have virtual currencies affected the retail payments market
UK – archeologists find Roman gold coin
UK – Britons have hoarded L550m in unredeemed foreign banknotes & coins
UK – Innovia Films banknote plant
UK – man whose wife burned up L15k in the oven will get reimbursed by Bank of England
UK – Manchester shopping street will ban coins & currency for a single day, an experiment
UK – towards cashless payments
US – NAMA comment on US coin request
US – the spectacular fall of the paper check
US – vending & amusement sectors oppose changing the mix & composition of US coins
US/DC – ATM that dispenses yoghurt
Vietnam – open air market in Ho Chi Minh City goes cashless
Wharton – article – going cashless & the unbanked
June 12 – 17 2014
Assecco Software – ATM that can exchange currencies
Australia – M-Pesa enters the market for cross-border remittances
Authentication science – vein scanning
Brazil – free mobile app from central bank to help authenticate banknotes
Cambodia – could fake notes have been dispensed from an ATM
China – opposition to high denomination banknotes
Cummins Allison – new coin sorter for European market
DeLaRue – a license to print money
Diebold & Elan certify branch transformation solutions
Ecommerce Europe – paper – epayments landscape in Europe
EMC – paper – global privacy index
Ghana – toward electronic payments
India – ATM that inhales currency
Ireland – results of the Wexford Rounding Trial
JPMorganChase & the future of the ATM
Kenya – Egyptian e-payment firm enters the market
Libya – central bank & monetary developments
Mastercard – cards & the cash economy
Mongolia – banknote & coin exhibit
Nigeria – CBN strengthens the cashless policy
Nigeria – huge infrastructure deficit threatens the cashless policy
Nigeria – registration of biometric bank customers to begin next week
Numismatics – ancient coins being looted from excavations
Pakistan – financial inclusion
Patent – Coca Cola – systems & methods for providing a vending network
Patent – Glory – money depositing/dispensing device
Patent – GRGBanking – connector for cash box
Patent – Innovia – radiation curable embossed ink security devices for security documents
Patent – MEI – characterizing items of currency
Patent – Oki Electric – banknote processing device
Patent – Royal Bank of Scotland – cash dispensing apparatus
Patent – Vorbeck Materials – security devices
Pymnts.com – are mobile payment readers going to make cash obsolete?
Small businesses & cashless payments
Spectra Systems & Banco de Mexico
UK – Anglo-Saxon coin sells for L78k at auction
UK – Institute of Economic Affairs argues for a privatized electronic currency
UK – should we ditch the 1p coin
USA Technologies & Tom’s Vending
US – counterfeit & debased currency in colonial & pre-federal America
US – a decline in coin & currency use could cost the Fed a pretty penny
US – hoarding rolls of pennies, pre-1982 pennies, for copper
US – on the cost of paper money
US/Colorado – pouring acid on an ATM will not get you to the cash inside
US/Louisiana – counterfeiting & murder
June 7 – 11 2014
Africa – regulation vs mobile payments
ATKearney – paper – 2014 retail banking radar
ATKearney – paper – Australia, future of the banking system
ATM security – teens demonstrate how crackable ATMs are
Australia – RBA not releasing Securency report because it doesn’t have a copy
Authentication science – nano barcodes for tracking & authentication
Bermuda – the first English coins in North America, 1615
Brinks – blog – UV payment security
Canada – your $2 bills are not worth $20,000
Capital One pulls the plug on coin counting machines
Cash is king, but not everywhere
CFSI – paper – beyond check cashing, consumer demand for immediate access to check funds
Cignifi – paper – mobile phones & financial inclusion
ComScore – report – consumers demand more flexibility when shopping online
Crane Currency & Boulder Imaging
EBA – paper – digital identity – from check-out to check-in
ECB – paper – consumer use of cash, cross-country comparison
ECB – paper – migrants’ choice of remittance channel
ECB – paper – this is what’s in your wallet
Ernst&Young – paper – banking on emerging markets
GAO – report – actions needed to improve coin inventory management
Hogan-Lovells – paper – global payments newsletter June 2014
India, China, coinage & the world gold supply
India – fighting against ATM attacks
Kenya – 10 days in Kenya without using any cash
KPMG – paper – customer experience barometer
Kuwait – e-commerce developments
McAfee – paper – the economic of cybercrime 2014
NCR omnichannel solutions in UAE
Nigeria – bank verification number initiative
Pakistan – exchanging decimal coins
Patent – Advance Track & Trace – method for authenticating geometrical codes
Patent – Global Cash Access – multifunction cashless gaming ATM
Patent – GRGBanking – thickness detecting device
Patent – IBM – matrix-incorporated fluorescent silica for anti-counterfeiting
Patent – Innovia – security devices incorporating color-shifting inks
Patent – JDS Uniphase – apparatus for orienting magnetic flakes
Patent – Jeansee – combinatorial DNA taggants
Patent – Makansi – process for forming rainbow & hologram images on papers
Patent – Samsung – method of forming characters for microprint & image forming apparatus
Patent – Samsung – mobile communication device & method for identifying a counterfeit bill
Patent – Toshiba – magnetoresistive system & method for detection of magnetic image of banknotes
Securens Systems & Mayfield Capital
Solomon Islands – central bank suffers financial loss due to cost of currency
Tanzania – mobile cash transfers
US – could the country save money by changing the penny’s core from zinc to steel?
US/New York – gold-dispensing ATMs
June 1 – 6 2014
Australia – Australians lose A$100m in coins every year
Australia – time to get rid of 5c money-losing coin?
Bulgaria – counterfeit printing operation busted
Canada – coin collector’s valuable estate will not flow to US neo-nazi group
Canada – paper – on electronic payments & small businesses
China – counterfeits in circulation
Coin history – the coins of Croesus
Diebold & Washington Trust Bank
Digital Check – UV scanning of checks
Document Security Systems webinar
Europe – introduction of the E10 note
Frost & Sullivan – report catalogue on POS & ATMs
Hong Kong – film entitled ATM is a comedy about stealing an ATM
India – 13th largest non-cash payments market in the world
Israel – analysts say cashless policy won’t work
NCR & bank branch reengineering
Nigeria – who should lead the CBN
Philippines – penalizing the hoarding of coins
UK – British Retail Consortium survey – UK retail payments 2014
UK – Brits love their in-store ATMs
UK – Card Association reports shift from cash to card payments
UK – fox in line to withdraw funds from ATM – photo
UK – reward offered for catching ATM fraudsters
USA Technologies – 250k installations
US – BEP – facilitating currency identification for the blind
US – retail – what to do when you find a counterfeit
US/California – cash left around San Francisco
US/Oklahoma – gold & silver now legal tender
US – Washington Times – US keeps making coins even though there is a surplus in circulation
US – why some small merchants prefer cards over cash
Vending – recent developments in vending machines
Wincor Nixdorf & Wayne Fueling Systems
