Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – November 2015 Links

Noember 16 – 21 2015

France – Banque du France article – will cash soon be forbidden?

India – ATM card cloning, arrests

India – toward cashless

Ireland – scrapping low denomination coins does not signify the end of cash

Nanotech Security, Hueck Folien GMbH & color shifting optical thin film

Nordic countries – future of payments

Oman – new banknote

TNS & ATM management in the UK, Netherlands & Belgium

November 7 – 16 2015

Africa – toward cashless

Australia – ATM fee trends

Australia – toward cashless or not?

Bangladesh – on the central bank’s powers to withdraw coins

BCG – paper – global payments 2015

Canada – cash vs cashless & virtual currencies

China – central bank sends 100 yuan notes abroad to meet foreign demand

China – currency history

China – new 100 yuan banknote

China – new 100 yuan note being rejected by some ATMs

Currency News – Indonesia banknote printer signs MOUs with Crane & Jardin Zinc

Czech Republic – cashless payments & the shadow economy

Diebold & biometrics

Diebold – discovers flaws in Bitcoin ATMs

Egypt – toward cashless

Europe – ECB releases online game to familiarize the public with the new E20

Europe – new E20 hailed as counterfeit-resistant

Forensic science of dating inks

Germany – Bank Sparkasse may have inadvertantly leaked data from ATMs during a software update

Glory Global Solutions & branch transformation

Hyosung MoniSafe 500 & branch transformation

India – ATM skimming

India – RBI & counterfeits

Ireland – counterfeiter arrested

Kenya – on the growth of mobile transactions

Nautilus Hyosung retains patent law firm in Diebold dispute

NCR – confirms $820m investment by Blackstone

NCR & First Data

NCR Payment Suite certified PA-DSS 3.0 compliant

NCR – three cheers for the ATM

New Zealand – on the design of the NZ$10 note

Nigeria – status of the Bank Verification Number (BVN) initiative

Philippines – Bulgarian national caught using cloned ATM cards

Philippines – cashless shopping in Manila

Report – future of global security printing markets to 2020

Russia – new banknote focused on the Crimea

SICPA in Pakistan

UK – getting a woman onto a British banknote

UK – Innovia opens plastic banknote production line in Wigton

UK – inside the Bank of England

US – Mint coin production in FY 2015

US – Mint freezes damaged coin buybacks from China

US/New York – 3rd generation Mafia member found not guilty in 1978 JFK Airport/Lufthansa robbery

US/New York – cashless tolls on the Tappan Zee Bridge

Vietnam – ATM restrictions

Vodafone commits to large investment in India

Zimbabwe – rand coins being rejected due to changes in exchange rates

November 1 – 6 2015

ATM makers are expanding

ATMIA responds to some misleading articles about ATM fees

Australia – ATM thieves trying to funnel proceeds back to Bulgaria

Austria – elderly woman destroys $1.1m to spite her heirs

Bangladesh – counterfeits

Bangladesh – Hitachi & biometrics in banking & ATMs

BetterThanCashAlliance – paper – inclusive approach to digital payments

Cape Verde – new banknotes

Cummins Allison – ATM sales & support network

Czech Republic – major counterfeiting case

DeLaRue – unforgeable passports

Denmark – counterfeit trends

Diebold – on the transformation of branches

Economist – on the history of ATMs

Federal Reserve – triennial US payments study

Fifth Third expands its cash services business to include casino industry

Georgia – new banknotes

Glory in New Zealand

How does a cash recycler work?

Identifying a fake ID

India – loose change all over the road

Indonesia – state banks acquire the ATM unit of the telecom sector

Ireland – Cork bids to be the first cashless city in the country

Ireland – toward cashless

Kenya – M-Pesa & real-time funds settlement for merchants

Kenya – M-Pesa & remittances

KrebsonSecurity – how carders use eBay as a virtual ATM

Loomis acquires Dunbar’s logistics operations unit

Maldives – new currency series

New Zealand – automated parking machines are reading new design notes as counterfeits

Nigeria – cashless economy unsustainable without data security

Nigeria – toward cashless

Patent – JDS Uniphase – provision of frames or borders around pigment flakes for covert security applications

Patent – Jiangsu Multidimension Technology – magnetic head for banknote detection

Patent – Sicpa – nonperiodic tiling document security element

Philippines – BSP – counterfeiting threat is driving demonitization

RBR – forecast growth in the number of card-accepting outlets worldwide through 2020

Serbia – counterfeit stats

Sweden – toward cashless

UK – Bank of England – automated banknote handling machine test results

UK – history of the Royal Mint

UK – toward cashless

US – BEP photo – women inspecting currency in 1906

US – Fed concerned that US cash is flowing to ISIS through Iran

US – Mint sued by Hong Kong firm over seizure of mutilated coins

US/Florida – man who produced $4.5m in counterfeits pleads guilty

US/Georgia – Bitcoin ATM stolen from store in Atlanta

US/New Jersey – mastermind of major counterfeit card scheme sentenced to 6 years in prison

Thailand – 2 Ukrainian nationals arrested with 138 fake ATM cards

Travelling from pole-to-pole without any cash

Wincor Nixdorf & branch transformation

Zimbabwe – on bond coins

October 27 – November 1 2015

Africa – on the effectiveness of microfinance

ATMIA record of advocacy for members

Bank of England – video – on the future of cash

Bulgaria – replacing 2 leva note with a coin

Cambodia – toward cashless

Canada – layoffs at Royal Mint due to weak coin demand

Cayman Islands – fighting counterfeiters

China – inspired by a film, man pours 2 bottles of soda into an ATM in the expectation that it would short-out the electronics & then dispense cash

Christian Science Monitor – the 5 best podcasts on money

Citicorp testing ATM equipped with iris scanner

Denmark – Viking-era coins unearthed

Diebold – blog – the disappearance of cash is a myth

Diebold – IIIQ 2015 financial results

Europe – new 20 euro note

Financial inclusion as a business opportunity

Germany – 200 euro counterfeits

Halcash North America & cardless ATMs

India – banknote authentication features

India – court cites the menace of counterfeit currency to the economy in refusing to offer bail to Bangladesh national accused of counterfeiting

India – moving government payments & receipts to electronics

India – toward cashless transactions in small businesses

Indonesia – toward cashless

Ireland – the end of the penny

Ireland – what to do with your repudiated pennies

Kiplinger – what you need to know about paying with cash

Mercator – 2015 ATM benchmark report

NCR breaking ground on new headquarters in midtown Atlanta

Nicaragua – polymer substrate banknotes

Norway – Nordea Bank abandons cash in its branches

OKI & ATMs in China

Opsec Security Group & Orca Bidco Ltd

Pakistan – ecommerce opportunities

Philippines – BSP says new coins will be more counterfeit resistant

Philippines – digital connectivity & financial inclusion

Sweden – people hiding cash in their microwaves as the country heads toward negative interest rates

Turkey – rare 1849 Ottoman empire note discovered

UK – how to spot a fake note

UK – should Britain follow Ireland in eliminating the penny?

US – 40% of millennials would be willing to give up cash altogether, survey

US – Chinese companies have to face fake coin claims

US – Clinton & Sanders opine on the level of ATM fees

US – Mint suspends damaged-coin exchange program for 6 months amidst controversy about such damaged coins being faked

US – on the melt-value of US coins

US – should the US follow Ireland in eliminating the penny?

US – Treasurer speaks on the effort to replace the $10 & the person-on-the-$10

US/Louisiana – man cashes in all the pennies he’s accumulated over 45 years

US/Ohio – Cleveland, a place with many cash- or check-only small businesses

What happens inside the brain when you think about money?

Zimbabwe – government considering addition of more bond coins