Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – June 2015 Links
28 June, 2015
Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem - June 2015 Links
June 27 – 30 2015
Bangladesh – 5 arrested in counterfeit bust
Cetologic & Mountain America CU
Greece – 1/3 of all ATMs are empty due to a run
Greece – 12 pictures of long lines & empty ATMs
Patent – Glory – cash settlement device
Suggested reading – on the history of money (LendingAttic.com)
June 21 – 27 2015
Africa – mobile money, banks vs telcos
ATMIA – report – global cash demand study
Australia – bank ATM fees, a government inquiry
Authentication – authenticating euro coins with sound
Authentication – nanostructure design enables to produce two different colors
Bankinfosecurity.com – easy access fuels ATM attacks
Cambodia – security guards arrested after 2 ATMs stolen from a mall
Canada – once-massively-counterfeited Toronto transit tokens being replaced with smartcards
China – woman tears apart an ATM to get her swallowed card
Currency News – on the interaction between interest rates & cash usage/holding
Czech Republic – counterfeit gold bars
Eastern Caribbean Central Bank – 1c & 2c coins will remain legal tender until 2020
Elan Financial Services, Nautilus Hyosung & branch transformation
FMSI – report – 2015 teller line study
FRB Boston – report – how are consumers using general purpose reloadable prepaid cards
Global Banknote Printing Machine Market, 2015
Greece – hiding cash under the mattress
India – 10 years at hard labor for counterfeiting
India – making cash use expensive is the best way to drive consumers to electronic payments
India – new Rs100 note has additional security feature
India – pre-2005 banknotes being phased out at the end of this month
NCR – buyout for $10b may be a pipe dream
Nigeria – cashless policy, agent banking & financial inclusion
Nigeria – cashless policy being expanded to additional states
Nigeria – challenges to electronic payments
Nigeria – Lagos ATM dispensing fake currency
Russia – printing 20m copies of banknote commemorating Crimea annexation
Scotland – cashless parking in Glasgow
Senegal – music star arrested after hoard of counterfeit euros found in his house
Spain – supermarket chain introduces mobile payments
Tanzania – mobile phones & financial inclusion
Turkey – Turkish national accused in global ATM heist extradited to the US
UK – are there secret codes in British banknotes to prevent copying
UK – BoE says cash is here to stay (Financial Times)
UK – contactless payments & charitable donations
UK – on the Royal Mint visitor center in Wales
UK – Tesco ATM attacked, loss of L50,000
US – Andrew Jackson hasn’t always been on the $20
US – BEP – banknote designer profile
US – BEP plans to have public meetings about the $10, link
US – Bernanke opposes replacement of Hamilton on note (Brookings)
US – its all about the Hamiltons
US/California – old San Francisco Mint among the nation’s most endangered buildings
US/Idaho – 18 years for a string of ATM thefts
US/Massachusetts – 18 months for fake MBTA pass counterfeiter
Vending machines & cash displacement
June 14 – 20 2015
Are ATMs on the path to obsolescence?
Australia – how a cashless economy might be bad
Australia – what artist should appear on a banknote
Authentication – egg-shells & anti-counterfeiting technology
Authentication – egg-shells & anti-counterfeiting, the paper
Authentication – new fluorescent ink to deter counterfeiting
Bangladesh – cash & debit card growth
Cambodia – merchants warned about fake US notes
Chase to eliminate coin-counting machines in some branches
Euronet – ATMs in Malaysia, Cyprus & Portugal
Ghana – cashless buses in Accra
Global anti-counterfeiting market in security documents & event ticketing
Global banknote industry trends
Greece – $4.5 billion in ATM withdrawals this week
India – fake currency recovered from bank
India – Vodafone, M-Pesa & the water business
Ireland – on eliminating the 1c & 2c coins
Jamaica – counterfeiters arrested
Managing cash in the bank branch
MEF – global mobile money report 2015
Mexico – exhibit of historical banknotes
NCR & Gibraltar International Bank
NCR & Nationwide Building Society
NCR & Yorkshire Building Society
NCR being courted by the Blackstone Group & Carlyle Group
NCR – reimagining the ATM for the 21st century
NELMAR appoints VP of cash management services
Nigeria – ATMs & banking reform
Nigeria – cashless policy & the bank verification number (BVN)
Nigeria – counterfeiters arrested
Nigeria – court grants bail to 5 accused in CBN currency scam
OliverWyman – report – the digital disruption battlefield
Pakistan – old banknotes being demonitized in 2016
Philippines – how to identify counterfeit notes
PNC is 6th largest ATM deployer in the US
Royal Australian Mint issuing a rectangular coin to commemorate Magna Carta
Royal Canadian Mint – Mexico junket
Rwanda – the cashless society is a long way off
Scotland – Bank of Scotland commits to polymer notes
Singapore – noncash payment service for small vendors
South Africa – SARB limits the number of coins used per payment transaction
Tellermate – counting cash by weight
UAE – mobile wallet initiative
UK – BoE paper – mapping the UK financial system
UK – BoE video – mapping the UK financial system
UK – British Bankers Association report – the way we bank now, June 2015
UK – bus driver refuses fare paid in pennies
UK – is it time to scrap the 1p & 2p coins
UK – should all London cabs be able to accept cards
US – Alice Paul, another good candidate for the $10
US – BEP chooses a vendor to destroy its mutilated currency
US – forgotten faces on US currency
US – new $10 will feature a woman, identity not yet disclosed
US – how the rise of digital banking is diluting the power of the Community Reinvestment Act
US – is the zinc lobby preventing elimination of the penny?
US – silver certificates of the educational series
US – the health risk of dirty cash, video
US/California – the history of banking in San Francisco, in pictures
US/Kansas – governor signs bill to fix ATM restrictions on welfare payments
Wincor Nixdorf – interview with the president about company strategy
Women featured on currency & coin worldwide
June 8 – 13 2015
Africa – mobile money ecosystem
Australia – ATM operator goes into bankruptcy
Australia – mobile payments in pubs
Authentication science – anticounterfeiting & pharmaceuticals
Authentication science – no-ink color printing with nano-materials
Bangladesh – counterfeit currency ring
Belgium commemorates the Battle of Waterloo with a coin, France is not pleased
Canada – EMV reduced debit fraud & ATM fraud
Cardtronics still sees the prospects for profits in the ATM business
Currency Research – paper – the case for cash
DBR – paper – traditional banks as digital ecosystems
Eastern Caribbean Central Bank to stop issuing 1c & 2c coins
EMV Migration Forum will host webinar on ATM conversion
Europol & European ATM Security Team – MOU
Europol organized crime report 2015
Foreign Policy – can mobile financial services bring an end to poverty?
FRB Boston – paper – is payments tokenization ready for prime-time?
Ghana – problems with cashless payments system
Global Anticounterfeiting Packaging Market, report
Greece – understanding ancient Greek economy through ancient Greek coins
Hong Kong – long queues for HSBC $150 note
India – 50 paise coin is losing popularity
India – 6 ways to move money without using cash
Malaysia – cashless highway tolls
Malta – bank staff receive cash handling certifications
Mobile payments & AML compliance
Nanotech Security Corp – new development contract
Netherlands – cash is still king
Nigeria – ATM usage & the cashless policy
Nigeria – CBN transfers some workers amidst currency investigation
Nigeria – poll on the effectiveness of the cashless policy
Philippines – citizens advised to use their old-style banknotes this year
Philippines – counterfeiting ring produced US dollar notes
Royal Canadian Mint – IQ financial results
Trinidad & Tobago – increase in counterfeits
UK – coin for Magna Carta’s 800th anniversary
UK – the mathematics of exact change with coins
US – BEP – profile of the director
US – Harriet Tubman on the US$20
US – how much is a US$500 note worth?
US – Mint production in May 2015
US – no one knows how to write a check anymore
US – the future of bank branches, branch traffic & teller productivity
US – the most beautiful banknote in US history
US/Arizona – 3-years for counterfeiting
US/Kansas – federal officials scrutinizing Kansas welfare limits on ATM withdrawals
US/Texas – cupcake ATM in Houston
Wincor Nixdorf & Banco de Chile
Zimbabwe – as old currency dies, citizens with get US$5 for Z$175 quadrillion
June 1 – 7 2015
ATMIA – don’t wait to upgrade ATMs to Windows 10
ATM Marketplace – 16 myths about cash
Australia – cashless welfare card
Authentication science – optical nanospirals could help fight counterfeits
Banknote check with ultra-fast line scan sensor
Book Review – The Plastic Banknote, from Concept to Reality
Canada – an artist & the loonie design
Cantaloupe Systems & cashless vending
Cashless payments in the US vending industry
China – 97% of counterfeits traced back to one elderly Chinese painter
China – ATM with facial recognition
China – flawed Rm100 banknote may be worth Rm1 million
China – man pays for a new car with $107k in coins
Consult Hyperion blog – breaking ATMs
Crackdown on cash transactions
Cummins Allison & the ATM/EMV transition
DeLaRue could be an acquisition target
Document Security Systems – update
5/3 cash vault product has been a hit
Glory, Jack Henry & cash recyclers
India – domestic production of currency paper
India – HDFC Bank to stop generating paper receipts at ATMs, SMS messages instead
India – toward plastic substrate?
Kuwait – new banknote series wins IACA award
New Zealand – on the cost of running the central bank including the cost of banknotes
Nigeria – counterfeiting factory busted
Nigeria – Heritage Bank & cashless banking
Philippines – old banknotes being demonitized by yearend
Raconteur – 2015’s hottest payment companies
Raconteur – on the future of money
Russia – local currency in a rural area
Scotland – Bank of Scotland going to plastic substrate banknotes
Senegal – FBI joins local banknote counterfeiting case
Source Technologies – personal teller machine
UK – David Wolman on the death of cash
UK – Roman coin hoard saved for museum
US – coins from colonial period on display in Williamsburg Virginia
US – how can you tell if a 1793 penny is fake?
US/California – 1871, great diamond hoax
US/Kansas – state lawmakers vote to raise ATM limit for welfare beyond $25
US/New York – one of the world’s most expensive collectible stamps
Why do some retailers prefer cash?
Zimbabwe – sex workers & mobile payments
