Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – December 2014 Links
31 December, 2014
Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – December 2014 Links
December 22 – 31 2014
Australia – ATM bombing/robbery backfires – video
Australia – iCash Systems & Stargroup Ltd
Australia – what to expect in banking in 2015
Authentication science – fraud-proofing credit cards through quantum physics
Belarus – toward financial reform & cashless payments
Biometrics, banking & passports
Brinks exits cash handling operations in the Netherlands
Canada – the TTC & cashless transactions
Canada – vending machine industry developments
Challenge of creating a new, viable, payment type
China – on counterfeiting UK & European coins
CI Tech – the banknote processor, reinvented
CocaCola joins Better Than Cash Alliance
Ethiopia – old currency notes turned into bricks
FraudFighter – counterfeit detection magazine
Germany – citizens hoard E6.6 billion in obsolete banknotes
Ghana – public urged to make use of e-payment systems
Hong Kong – G4S van dumps a load of currency on the street
India – cashless transactions in rural post offices
India – on banks & ATM security obligations
India – RBI & digital currencies
India – RBI extends deadline for depositing pre-2005 banknotes
India – RBI in court to defend regulation about limit on free ATM access
Kenya – M-Pesa receives cross-border cash remittance license
Malaysia – cashless transactions
NCR – APTRA for personalized ATM transactions
NCR & Digital Insight, one year later
Netherlands – Brinks workers may strike, affecting ATM cash supplies
Nigeria – banks, mobile money & financial inclusion
Nigeria – controversy about N100 centennial note
Opsec financial & business results
Pakistan – Nigerian national arrested with counterfeit US dollars
Patent – JDS Uniphase – durable optical interference pigment with a bimetal core
Philippines – Bulgarians nabbed in ATM skimming
Philippines – old banknote design to be demonitized
Pymnts.com – a 5 year glimpse into consumer payment preferences
RSR – holiday shopping & payments patterns in the developed world, survey
Russian-Ukrainian gang hacking ATMs outside the US
Rwanda – rise of tech enterpreneurship includes reengineering payments
Scotland – convenience store association seeks government intervention to promote fee-free ATMs
Spain – euro coin forgery gang
Sweden – new coins & banknotes
Tanzania taking a lead in electronic payments regulation
Trinidad & Tobago – new banknote
Turkey – Kurdish rebels reportedly planning to print own currency notes
UK – 2 men from Belarus arrested in ATM fraud
UK – Belarus gang in ATM fraud
UK – discovery of a huge stash of counterfeit euros in Italy raises fears about the new L2 coin
UK – fake IDs & fake passports
USA Technologies, Coca Cola & cashless payments
US – on the cost of the nickel & the penny
US – record-breaking numismatic auctions in 2014
US – Treasury targeting efforts to move US dollar banknotes to Iran
US – where did the Mint get aluminum to make coins in the 19th century
US/Illinois – a town that still has penny parking meters
December 14-21 2014
Accenture – 2014 US consumer payments survey
Angola – banking & payments developments
Argentina – debt crisis leads to dollar hoarding
Australia – ATM crime gang goes to court
Bundesbank – costs & benefits of cash & cashless payment instruments
Canada – is mobile security moving too slowly to keep up with mobile banking & payments
Canada – TTC & cashless mass transit
Canada – results of Bank of Canada consultation on banknote design principles
Colombia – Gabriel Garcia Marquez to be featured on a banknote
Enterprise risk management is not a funny subject except on Seinfeld
Ethiopia – central bank plans to print banknotes domestically
Europe – rollout of new E20 note
Europe – the fictional bridges on the first series of euro notes
Ghana – Nigerian gang involved in ATM fraud busted
Germany – reconstructing currency that has been through fires, a video
India – ATM kiosks fail safety test
India – mobile phones & mobile payments, legal framework
India – PIN & biometric authentication
India – the liability of banks in cases of ATM fraud
Indonesia – ATM card combined with an ewallet
Italy – the best fake euros in the world
Kenya – cybersecurity threats to the payments system
Kenya – fuel payments via M-Pesa
Malaysia – ATM hacker arrested in the UK
NCR & Alaric payment fraud detection
NCR setting up ATM manufacturing facility in India
Nigeria – Sterling Bank ends year with 700 ATMs & 5000 POS installations
Thailand – central bank assures there will be no banknote shortage
Uganda – counterfeiting of US currency
UK – arrests in Manchester after L2 million in counterfeit euros found
UK – kids vote for Dr Who to be on future banknote
US – how much does it cost to make a penny?
US – NAMA input on the Mint coin composition study
US – validating US Treasury checks under UV light
US – when Santa Claus ended up on some US currency
December 8 – 14 2014
Arrowhead Armored LLC & Sectran Security
Australia – toward cashless payments
Austria – next generation virtual ATMs made in China
Authentication science – on the accuracy of finger-vein authentication
Bitcoin – US Marshals Service completes second Silk Road Bitcoin auction
Canada – $40k in US counterfeits at Edmonton airport
Canada – counterfeit US cash in Winnepeg
China – town is burning shredded money instead of coal to provide regional power
Colombia – toward more electronic payments
Crimea – proposed new banknotes for the territory under Russian rule
Diebold – earnings guidance for 2014, earnings prospects for 2015
FRB Atlanta blog – the fate of independent ATM operators
Germany – a definite preference for cash payments, survey
Ghana – new ATM skimming epidemic
Hyosung – paper – on branch transformation
iBill – denominating US currency for the visually impaired
India – RBI & cashless payments
Innovia – work begins on L20 million plant to make plastic substrate for UK notes
Ireland – garda pleads guilty to ATM theft
Ireland – minting low denomination coins makes no sense
Ireland – shortage of low denomination coins
Italy – police seize nearly 600k counterfeit euro coins minted in China
Kenya – the cashless drive can only gain momentum
Kenya – Visa & cashless payments
KrebsonSecurity – wiretapping ATM skimmers
Lithuania – 114 tons of euro notes have been delivered
Malaysia – cashless comes to gas pumps
Nigeria – counterfeiters in court
Nigeria – hopes it will supplant Kenya as the focus of African technology & payments innovation
Russia celebrates the annexation of Crimea with a special banknote
Scotia Security Group entering US ATM market
South Africa – street vendors go cashless
South Africa – toward a less-cash society
South Korea – toward cashless payments
Tanzania – financial inclusion & mobile banking
Trinidad & Tobago – new polymer-substrate banknote
UAE – bank upgrades ATM software to new version of Windows
UAE – Europeans arrested for ATM skimming
UK – how many times does an L20 banknote actually change hands in its lifetime
UK – the vending machine of the future will use biometrics
USA Technologies – new initiative in cashless self-service retail
US – coin advocates release survey indicating 2/3 of Americans want to keep the penny
US – helping the blind denominate banknotes
US – Mint’s 2014 report to Congress recommends no change to coin composition
US – Mint biennial report to Congress, link
US/Maine – power tools used to break into ATM & steal the contents
US/Maryland – Baltimore financial institution testing ATM with facial biometrics
US/Pennsylvania – deer hunters find a discarded ATM in the woods
US/Texas – counterfeit check ring members plead guilty
US/Wisconsin – men printed counterfeit cash then bragged about it online, oops
Zimbabwe should not bring back its own currency
December 1 – 7 2014
Afghanistan – 5 foreigners arrested with counterfeit dollars & euros
Applied DNA Sciences wins 4th federal contract
ATM skimming techniques advance
Australia – interstate ATM theft ring busted
Australia – RBA – evolution of payment costs in Australia
Authentication science – the watermark was patented in Britain on December 4 1819
Brazil – mobile payments developments
Canada – design competition for commemorative banknote celebrating 150 years
CNBC – 7 ways your life is already cashless
Cummins Allison & Bank Greenwich
FRB NY blog – on the panic of 1819
Ghana – on payments & financial inclusion
India – ATMs that can print in English or Hindi
India – ATM withdrawals dropped by 9% in November, reflecting caps on free transactions
India – currency design panel for RBI
India – implementation of new ATM fees & transaction limits
India – promoting electronic banking
India – RBI norms for white label ATMs
Invention of the rotary press 200 years ago influenced both newspaper & banknote printing
Ireland – ATM raiders labelled as the country’s dumbest criminals
Kenya – 94% of all transactions still made in cash
Kenya – gang of Chinese nationals arrested for ATM & payments system infiltration
Kenya – Safaricom launches campaign to boost M-Pesa transactions
Liberty Dollars affair – an update
Lithuania – euro notes arrive under high security
Loomis AB – management changes
Maldives – self-service ATM that dispenses dollars
Mastercard Labs in East Africa
Myanmar – counterfeit banknote gang is busted
Nepal – central bank proposes a cash transaction maximum to reduce cash dependence
New Zealand – first Maori language ATM
New Zealand – new currency designs
Opsec changes name of its ISIS division to Equinox, for obvious reasons
Pakistan – toward a cashless economy
Philippines – Bulgarians may be implicated in local ATM skimming case
PYMNTS – why ApplePay is fizzling
Rwanda – central bank tells citizens to use electronic payments so banknotes don’t wear out
SecuringIndustry – colour sensor could detect counterfeit banknotes
South Africa – prospects for cashless payments in 2015
South Africa – US$1.6 million in counterfeits seized
TD Canada Trust – an ATM that says “thank you” for your business
UK – should the 1p & 2p coins be eliminated?
UK – the cost of upgrading vending machines & parking meters to handle the new one pound coin
US/Oregon – making counterfeits in a hotel room
Wall Street Journal – reports of the death of cash are premature
Wincor Nixdorf – new omnichannel ATM software
WorldPay – report – fragmentation of fraud
Zimbabwe – coins for change & low denomination transactions being minted in South Africa
