Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – August 2014 Links
29 August, 2014
Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – August 2014 Links
August 24 – 31 2014
Applied DNA Sciences & the Department of Defense
ATM skimming developments – a razor-thin ATM skimmer
Australia – counterfeit A$50 & A$100 notes
Australia – RBA – on competition in the retail payments market
Authentication science – butterfly wings & banknote design
Authentication science – swiss cheese & DNA fingerprinting
Brinks blog – on the future of the ATM
Creditcards.com survey – cash dominates small value payments
Fortress Optical Features & Nanotech Security Corp
India – ATM-style machine allows women to report abuse in privacy
Moldova – breakaway territory announces it is introducing plastic coinage
Nigeria – CBN & the reintroduction of ATM-cash fees
Patent – Bundesdruckerei – document with integrated display & electronic circuit
Patent – G&D – banknote processing apparatus including debanding station
Patent – Glory – banknote handling apparatus
Patent – GRGBanking – banknote processing system & method
Patent – GRGBanking – paper-type detection device & method
Patent – Sicpa – vanadium drier intaglio ink
Patent – Toshiba – magnetoresistive detection system for banknotes
Pymnts.com – what most ATM cash models miss
Thailand – Swedish & Philippines nationals arrested in ATM card fraud
UK – banknotes getting defaced with a “free Palestine” political message
US – increased vigilance needed to fight counterfeiting
US – the rise & fall of one of the US’ greatest counterfeiters
US/Rhode Island – black money scheme nets $100k
August 17 – 23 2014
ATM Marketplace – Fed study suggest that ATM/debit cards may be safer than credit cards
ATMs – where are all of the ATMs around the world, an interactive map
Azerbaijan – high value banknotes
Benjamin Franklin never said a penny saved is a penny earned
China & Kenya are winning the mobile money wars
Cryptocurrency – Bitcoin does not facilitate crime
Cuba – banknotes with new security measures
Cummins Allison – coin counters & customer experience
Diebold ActivEdge card reader defends against card skimming
Diebold & the branch of the future
Directory of circulating coins
Dominican Republic – counterfeit coins
FRB Boston – on mobile payments
FRB NY blog – clams as currency in colonial America
India – ATMs & postal savings accounts
India – national ID card as a payment platform
Indonesia – currency redenomination, dropping zeros
Kenya – Safaricom lowers fees for low-value transactions
KWJ Engineering – a nondestructive bulk currency detection system for screening smuggled currency
Israel – RISCO technology protecting Chinese ATM fleet
Lithuania – Bundesbank will supply euro banknotes
Mercator – making ATMs the hub of self-service
Mobile money & financial inclusion
Nigeria – ATM placements, ATM transaction trends
Nigeria – ATMs, withdrawal fees & the cashless policy
Nigeria – bank charges & the cashless policy
Nigeria – nationwide ATM activation scheme
Patent – Elias – virtual integrated ATM on electronic terminal device
Patent – GRGBanking – gate mechanism
Patent – Hitachi Omron – paper sheet processing device
Patent – MEAS Deutschland – apparatus for measuring magnetic properties
Patent – NCR – stain detection
Patent – Oki Electric – banknote processing device
Patent – Talaris – system for validating a controller for an ABM using a displayed indicia
Patent – Wincor Nixdorf – method & apparatus for OCR detection of valuable documents
Russia – central bank will not withdraw allegedly pornographic banknote
Sandia – lessons from perfect heists for national security
Tanzania – using mobile money to buy water & solar power
UK – problems with new 10p coins in vending
UK – Romanians jailed for ATM skimming
US – 1949 Cadillac covered with 38,000 pennies
US – 65 years of female US Treasurers
US – BEP & currency readers for the blind
US – BEP prints 535 million banknotes in July 2014
US – Mint produces record 42m coins in a single day
US/Pennsylvania – former superintendent of US Mint dies at age 88
August 11 – 16 2014
ATM & mobile innovation summit, Washington DC, September 2014
ATMIA recommendations on ATM accessibility
Brinks blog – deposit processing made simple
Bulgaria – seizure of massive counterfeit stock
CNET visits BEP’s Ft Worth currency production facility, numerous pictures
Currency science – the smell of dollars could catch smugglers
Finland – central bank exhibit on the history of money & banking
Germany – 2014 counterfeit stats
Huffington Post – on cardless ATMs
India – RBI recruiting for banknote printing facility
JDS Uniphase – FY2014 IVQ financial & business results
MIT Technology Review – the man who really made Bitcoin
Nigeria – cashless policy & fees on ATM withdrawals
Nigeria – on the adoption of electronic & mobile banking
Nigeria – on the cashless policy, video
NPR Planet Money – podcast – where are all the missing US$100s
Patent – 3M – color shifting multilayer polymer fibres
Patent – Bank of America – self service device using hardware database
Patent – Beb Industrie-Elektronik – separating worn banknotes in a banknote processing machine
Patent – G&D – method for processing banknotes
Patent – GRGBanking – self service transaction & automatic emergency hedge system
Patent – GRGBanking – valuable file identification device
Romania – man with a metal detector finds the oldest counterfeit coins in the world
Romania – m-pesa & mobile payments
Secure Currency Transport Conference, Chicago, September 2014
South Africa – counterfeiting in Capetown
South Korea – Mint develops IT consultancy business
Thailand – on the cost of coin production
UK – ATM attacker identified via Facebook
US – new member of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, CCAC, interviewed
US/Illinois – ATM technician in disguise captured by FBI
US/New Jersey – Florida man in massive card fraud case
US/New York – a 12-year old & Bill Murray on a $5
August 6 – 11 2014
Australia – are consumers giving up on cash?
Canada – counterfeit US banknotes spike in Windsor Ontario
Cardless ATMs may not be hack-proof
Cummins Allison – increased vigilance required to fight counterfeiting
FRBNY – Liberty Street Economics blog – the Hamburg crisis of 1799
Ghana – payments & microfinance
India – 7 arrested in counterfeiting case
Ireland – E20 counterfeit warning
Kenya – number of cards in public hands is rising but usage is light
Mobile payments will eventually make credit & ATM cards obsolete
NCR – POS support for SMEs, 24×7
Nigeria – cashless policy & online shopping
Nigeria – cashless policy & information security
North Korea – Kim Il Sung dropped from new banknotes
Numismatics – introduction to Roman emperors & their coins
Patent – Bank of America – apparatus for redundancy in an ATM
Patent – GRGBanking – banknote inclination correction device
Patent – Mastercard – ATM transaction premium listing to prevent transaction blocking
Pymnts.com – if cash is dead why are so many people using it?
Self-service checkouts spread around the world
Seychelles – counterfeits on the rise
Thailand – coin production in 1990
UK – future of cash – Clydesdale & Yorkshire banks, video
UK – how to differentiate a fake banknote from a genuine one
UK – incompetent robber involved in attempted cash depot robbery sentenced to 13 years
UK – the truth about the Great Train Robbery of 1963, podcast
Uruguay – study – credit card & bank account holding patterns
US – 19th test-strike coins from the Mint sold at auction
US – Edmund Moy on cryptocurrencies
US – going cashless can be expensive
US – history of the change in your pocket
Who is holding all those large denomination bills, in the US & elsewhere?
Zambia – controversies of currency design
July 30 – August 5 2014
Australia – the Securency case & Indonesia
Australia – the Securency case & Malaysia
Cameroon – dirty money & its acceptability in commercial transactions
Canada – Royal Canadian Mint commemorates veterans of World War I
Canada – TD ATMs & customer giveaways
CetoLogic signs 6 new financial institution customers
China – billionaire investing in money processing equipment
Diebold – can rotating card input by 90 degrees in ATMs help defeat skimmers?
Diebold – on the comeback trail?
Finextra – why simulations are indispensable for the cash industry
India – ATM customer electrocuted when loose wire touches the kiosk
India – policeman & suspect killed in counterfeit sting
Ireland – could mobile money surpass, even supplant, bank accounts?
Ireland – Croatian national arrested for counterfeiting
Israel – find of rare coins from time of the second temple
Japan Cash Machine Co (JCM) buys FutureLogic Group
Liberia – $250k in counterfeit US$100s from Korea & Sierra Leone
Mobile Payments Insider – outdated cash payments are taking a toll on businesses
Myanmar – mobile money & financial inclusion, in pictures
Nigeria – ensuring the success of the cashless policy at CBN
Numismatics – the top 10 animal coins
Patent – Digimarc – method for composing information-carrying artwork
Patent – G&D – endless material for security elements
Patent – Shandong Information Technology – cashbox & money validator
Patent – Wincor Nixdorf – device for filling a thin walled transport container with notes of value
Patent – Xerox – UV red fluorescent EA toner
Scotland – UK pound sterling will be Scotland’s currency by default if the vote goes against union
South Africa – competition intensifies in mobile payments
South Africa – M-Pesa relaunched
South Korea – increase in counterfeit US$100s
Thailand – warning about counterfeit 1000 baht banknotes
The 15 most impenetrable bank vaults on the planet, with pictures
UK – L5 commemorative coins have not held their value
UK – Royal Mint strikes WWI coin
UK – small businesses losing money due to burden of cash payments
UK – the mixed experience with cashless buses in London
US/Florida – car dealership refunds woman’s money in dispute all in pennies & other coins
US/New York – surgeon/numismatist has ancient Greek coins confiscated, will be returned to Greece
Zimbabwe – toward more cashless payments
Zimbabwe – will paper money become obsolete?
