Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – May 2015 Links
30 May, 2015
Counting On Currency Cash Per Diem – May 2015 Links
May 23 – 31 2015
Australia – ATM thief gets a year in jail
Bulgaria – counterfeit warning
China – ATM with facial recognition
Cummins Allison, Canada, credit unions
Danske Bank & Powatag collaboration to move the world toward cashless
DeLaRue – earnings report drives down stock price
Europe – Greek engraver wins euro design competition
Germany resists migration to a cashless society
India – banknote paper mill inaugurated
India – RBI guidelines for cashless travel
Italy – card payments vs cash payments for lunch
Malaysia – counterfeit ring leader caught 24 years later
Myanmar – new high denomination note fuels fears of accelerating inflation
Myanmar – new upgraded banknote
Nanotech Security Corp announces sale of color-shifting thin-film feature in banknote market
NCR receives Atlanta financial support to move headquarters
New Scientist – 4 sinister threats from a cashless society
Patent – Nanotech Security Corp – OVD & diffractive/plasmonic luminescent devices
Philippines – BSP swapping new notes for old notes
Philippines – debit card usage on the rise
Royal Canadian Mint, financial results, IQ 2015
Turkey – 1876 watermarked Ottoman Empire banknote
UK – banknote imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but not to BoE
UK – how to spot an ATM fitted with a skimmer
UK – vibrating banknote detectors for the blind
UK – what would cashless do to the homeless?
US – BEP banknote production in April 2015
US – Mint expanding operations
US – the BEP’s postage stamp vault in 1909, photo
US/Kansas – state government “taxes” the poor by imposing a $25 limit on ATM withdrawals
Zimbabwe – returning to its own banknotes?
May 15 – 22 2015
Australia – drugs & counterfeits
Australia – Queensland ATM theft turns into comedy of errors, video
Australia – will the New Payments Platform drive down cash & cheque use?
Bangladesh – on settling ATM transaction disputes
Canada – cash & payment trends
Cardtronics to sell UK-based CiT division
FICO – alert – theft of data from US ATMs
Fortress Paper – the mysterious doubling of the stock price
FRB Boston – study – mobile banking in New England
India – RBI on cashless payments
India – rupee on domestically-produced paper
Innovia Security – countries & banknote denominations using polymer substrate
Kazakhstan – considers limiting use of cash in transactions
Maldives – polymer substrate banknotes
NCR – 3 uses of cash that will never go away
NCR, Wells Fargo, weatherized ATM
Netherlands – smartphone app identifies counterfeit euros
New printing process makes 3-dimensional objects glow
Nigeria – cashless policy has affected the robbery business
Nigeria – cashless policy in Lagos State
Philippines – demonitizing old style banknotes
Poland – international banknote award
Poland – is polymer substrate more durable than cotton/linen substrate – a video
South Africa – M-Pesa re-launch has been a flop
UK – BoE framework for evaluating banknote sorting machines
UK – BoE wants an artist for the portrait on the L20 note
UK – Payments Council – cash is overtaken by other payment instruments
UK – pensioners arrested in huge jewel heist
UK – public nominations period for design of L20 note
US – how In God We Trust ended up on US currency
US – Mint production through April 2015
US – the mystery of the $2 bill
US/Colorado – marijuana kiosks & cash
Which is more valuable, gold, cocaine or rhino horn?
Will we ever become a cashless society?
May 8 – 14 2015
Africa – sports betting & mobile payments
Albania – M-Pesa is introduced
Applied DNA Sciences & the authentication of cotton
ATMIA – people have the right to use cash
ATM-Marketplace – what millennials really want from ATMs
Bank of New York $2 note comes up at auction
Canada – armored truck operators poised to go on strike
CSI modernizes its ATM platform
Electronic security tag for protecting valuable shipments
5/3 & smart-safes in Cincinnati
Fortress stock price up on speculation about Greece
G&D – banknote ethics initiative
Global banknote industry trends – study
Gunnebo – article – the hidden costs of cash
How to identify a counterfeit US$20
India – ATM managed services & market outlook to 2019
India – on domestic sourcing of ink for banknotes
Japan – bank hires “robot suits” to help employees lift heavy containers of cash
Japan – why aren’t ATM operators willing to give you money
Latin America – fastest growth in the world of mobile financial services – report
Malaysia – BNM introduces ink-stain technology to combat ATM theft
Maldives – adopting DeLaRue’s polymer substrate
Mastercard – on the evolution of ATM fraud
Multidimension Technology Ltd – high resolution magnetic image sensors for banknote processing
Nautilus Hyosung named largest ATM supplier in the US
NCR – self-checkout system in Russia
Pakistan – solar-powered ATMs will dispense water
Paper – changing payment patterns at POS in the Netherlands
Paper – factors affecting Islamic cards in Pakistan
Paper – how crime can undermine the convenience of cash
Paraguay – Polish banknote printer sends 35 tons of new banknotes to the central bank
Philippines – BSP coin supply contracting
Philippines – increase in ATM fraud
SeekingAlpha – the war on cash & how to exploit it
South Africa – mobile payments
Sudan – counterfeit money ring
Tellermate – top 5 cash handling myths
Trinidad & Tobago – polymer banknote wins banknote of the year award
UK – poised to follow Denmark toward a cashless society
US – Harriet Tubman wins unofficial vote to appear on the $20
Venezuela – government refuses to allow higher denomination banknote amidst inflation
Why are the world’s poorest countries embracing m-payments faster than rich ones?
Wincor Nixdorf – cash recycling in Germany
May 1 – 7 2015
ATM Marketplace – paper – how many banknote denominations should you recycle?
Australia – holey dollar sells for $550,000
Australia – rare 1 pound note worth $1.5m found in the National Library
Australia – RBA paper – social costs of currency counterfeiting
Authentication science – combating counterfeiting with QR codes
BAI Banking Strategies – reinventing the ATM globally
China – villager carves large likenesses of banknotes on a wall
Cummins Allison – on branch viability & cash services
Currency News – currency industry streamlines in 2015
Finland – treasure-filled wreck found at sea
FIS – paper on faster payments around the world
Hong Kong – new series banknotes with advanced security features
India – 10 facts about the currency
India – using coupons as a substitute for coins when coins are scarce
India – Vodafone launches M-Pesa app
Japan – the fate of the 1-yen coin
KrebsonSecurity – foiling pump skimmers with GPS
Malawi – digital payments report
NCR modernizes payments infrastructure
Netherlands – DNB paper – does a public campaign influence debit card usage
Nigeria – cashless Africa expo opens in Lagos
Nigeria – cashless policy has boosted government revenues in some places
Nigeria – ex-chief of the mint to be extradited to the UK to face trial in the Securency case
Paper – an inventory model with cash-credit choice
Paper – are smartphones smart for economic development?
Paper – US experience with state banknotes
Patent – GRGBanking – identification method for valuable file
Patent – Scan Coin – rim geometry of a coin sorting device
Royal Canadian Mint & Bank Indonesia
Scotland – ATM bombing, L50,000 stolen
Singapore – shoppers still prefer traditional methods of payment
Somalia – counterfeit money printing increases as the economy restarts
South Africa – QR codes & cashless payments
Time Magazine – world’s most beautiful banknotes
UK – coffee cup facilitates cashless payments
UK – postcards from the Bank of England