Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – December 2017/January 2018 Links
30 January, 2018
Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem
December 2017/January 2018 Links
January 25 – 31 2018
Australia – wearable payment devices vs cash
Botswana – new note on plastic substrate
Can your business benefit from banknote sorters?
Cardtronics – blog – Spain, cash vs cashless
Cato Institute – collateral damage from the war on cash
Do financial inclusion efforts really reduce poverty?
Estonia – counterfeit euro notes in 2017
Experiment in cashless/cashier-lite grocery shopping in the 1930s
India – cash vs digital payments
Japan – BoJ says people love cash so much that a cryptocurrency isn’t needed
Philippines – increase in ATMs to promote financial inclusion
Portugal – counterfeit euros in 2017
Pymnts.com – report – cash usage in the Americas – US, Brazil, Mexico
Singapore – QR code payments vs cash
Study – retailers’ cost of cash handling
Swaziland – the challenge of financial inclusion
Tanzania – financial inclusion framework & campaign
UK – LINK goes out for an infrastructure rebuild
US – Mint mutilated coin redemption program
January 18 – 24 2018
ATM Marketplace – on the future of cash & digital payments
Auka – paper – mobile payments guide for bankers
Book – Coins of England, 2018 edition
DeLaRue – advisory & consultancy provider of the year
Europe – where is the euro used outside the euro zone?
France – cashless church donations in Paris
Glory – patent – cash management method & system
India – Bank Note Press official held for stealing
India – RBI does not deploy on-site supervisors to the Bank Note Press facility
India – digital payments may not be as widespread as we thought
India – gold coins from the 7th century are deciphered
India – who will pay for ATM network reengineering post-demonitization?
Israel – coin counterfeiters arrested
Israel – controversy over an ancient coin
Japan – finally starting to embrace cashless payments
Kenya – mobile money network interlink trials
Malaysia – e-wallets & cashless payments
Malaysia – FavePay, mobile payment option
Namibia – counterfeiting trends
Netherlands – on the history of payments, video
New Zealand – Auckland, a cashless city
Niger – counterfeiters arrested
Nigeria – CBN on financial inclusion
Norway – banknote & currency manager of the year, Norges Bank
Pakistan – online retailing & cashless payments
Paper – consumer demand for credit card services
Paper – ecash & vouchers, the digitization of humanitarian aid
Paper – effect of payment instruments on unhealthy purchases
Philippines – BSP strengthens cashless payments system
Philippines – financial inclusion developments
Rwanda – cashless payments & cybercrime
South Africa – counterfeiter arrested
South Africa – paper – considerations for modernizing the low value payments infrastructure
Swaziland – small businesses & financial inclusion
Switzerland – banknote & currency service provider of the year, Landqart
Ukraine – NBU standardizes cash transactions in hryvnias
UK – ATM shake up could leave many without access to cash
UK – what is happening to your old, retired L5 & L10 notes?
US – consumer inclinations to go cashless
US – dollar coin developments in Congress
US – who designed the American dime?
Venezuela – going to get paid in the new cryptocurrency, not so fast
Vietnam – urgent need for a financial inclusion strategy
World Economic Forum on financial inclusion
World Economic paper on financial inclusion
yougov – report – cashing in globally
Zimbabwe – on mobile money interoperability
Zimbabwe – severe cash shortages continue
January 11 – 17 2018
Australia – making the country cashless by 2020
Australia – why the country cannot do without cash
Automation & retail cash handling
Brinks – 2017 income statement hit by gold theft loss
China – 214 million yuan in counterfeits seized, largest case since 1949
Crane – Venezuela owes the company an undisclosed large amount of money for banknote paper
Dunbar blog – using smart safes to optimize operating efficiency in retail
Dunbar blog – what the increase in cash-in-circulation means for retailers
Estonia – central bank examines withdrawal of 1c & 2c coins
Ethiopia – financial inclusion
Evolving state of cash & payments in the US
Finextra – what does 2018 hold for the ATM industry?
G&D – wins Egyptian banknote supply contract
Glory – leader in cash recycling technology
India – 2 Bangladesh nationals arrested with counterfeit US notes
India – coin production hit by storage problem as RBI vaults are full of demonitized banknotes
India – RBI says all 14 kinds of Rs10 coin are valid, legal tender
India – why are ATMs dying in a cash-obsessed country?
IHL study – cash drawer automation can dramatically reduce retailers’ cash handling expenses
Kenya – government expected to urge competition to Safaricom & M-Pesa
Malawi – counterfeiters arrested
NCR -new developments in retail self-checkout
NCR sells part of ATM business in India
Nigeria – CBN poorly monitors banknotes marked for destruction
Nigeria – financial exclusion & poverty
Russia – customs agents prevent 1.5 tons of Russian coins from going into Estonia
Spain – cash remains persistent in retail transactions, study
Spectra – licensing agreement with major banknote supplier
Sri Lanka – financial inclusion
Sweden – a digital solution for the vanishing-cash crisis
Sweden – examining virtual currency, e-krona
Uganda – driving toward 95% financial inclusion
UK – 40% of Britons believe cash will be obsolete in 25 years
UK – cash deserts, towns without ATMs & branches
UK – Link consumer council annual report 2017
UK – reassembling an L5 banknote from thousands of tiny shreds
UK – toward fewer branches & ATMs
USA Technologies – growing roster of customers
US – how many pennies are lost each year?
US – Mnuchin still won’t commit to putting Harriett Tubman on a note
US/Washington – Seattle Starbucks store piloting all-cashless payments
Venezuela – incentives to drive use of local virtual currency
Zimbabwe – cash only accounts for 3% of payments by value
January 4 – 10 2018
Azerbaijan – central bank fights counterfeits
Cardless ATMs are the next big thing
Cashtech blog – cash usage in Canada
Cashtech blog – counterfeit detectors are critical in retail, petrol stations, casinos
China – the cashless society has arrived
Corporate coercion & the drive to eliminate purchases with cash
Crane Paper – December 2017 M&A
FRB Atlanta cash operations in support of Puerto Rican cash needs
FRB Boston – paper – mobile banking & payment practices of US financial institutions
Ghana – financial inclusion drive
Hong Kong – 2 Chinese men robbed of HK$350,ooo at an ATM
India – 1/2 of the ATMs in one city are found to be empty of cash, survey
India – gender gap in financial inclusion
India – people cling to cash as tech firms go digital
India – RBI – financial inclusion must target the poor
India – Rs1 coin is effectively demonitized in Uttar Pradesh
Japan – the love of cash is a costly business
Kenya – cancels DeLaRue banknote contract
Kenya – on the benefits of mobile money
Macau – ATMs with facial biometrics
New Zealand – cashless donation system
Pakistan – fintech & financial inclusion
Paper – social media instruments & the promotion of financial inclusion in Peru’s rural areas
Philippines – financial inclusion picture brightens
Philippines – more millennials are shopping online
Rwanda – the progress toward cashless in 2017
Scotland – why Scottish notes are not legal tender
UAE – are there enough small denomination coins in circulation?
UK – BoE is planning for virtual currency but could it really replace cash?
UK – Romanian gang sold ATM skimmers worldwide from a garden shed in Essex
US – NYT – moving toward a cashless society, is that good?
US/Ohio – Mansfield & the fine art of Greenbacks
US/Pennsylvania – cashless coffee shop in Philadelphia
Venezuela – issuing its own version of cryptocurrency
December 25 2017 – January 3 2018
Afghanistan – considering plastic substrate for banknotes
Applied DNA – SigNature DNA product used to convict criminal in cash-in-transit robbery case
ATM Marketplace – the ATM is dead, long live the ATM
Australia – accelerated decline in cash payments anticipated in 2018, due in part to NPP
Australia – how much is the Mint worth?
Australia – remote ATMs to remain fee-free for another 5 years
Bangladesh – mobile money & remittances
Botswana – new banknote produced by DeLaRue
Case against going altogether cashless
Cashless payment apps, the good, the bad & the ugly
Cashtech blog – what you need to know about smart safes
China – capping payments made with QR codes
China – man buys car with $11,000 in local coins
China – small business migrate toward cashless
Dunbar – blog – how optimizing cash management benefits retailers
Germany – will its love affair with cash ever end?
India – ATM operators demand increase in interbank fees
India – bakeries in West Bengal suffer as banks refuse coins
India – cashless tax payments & tax enforcement
India – counterfeit statistics for 2017
India – number of foreign bank ATMs dropped 18% in the last 3 years
India – persistent acceptance problems for the Rs10 coin
India – POS transactions growing faster than ATM transactions
India – Romanian nationals arrested for ATM fraud
Ireland – on cross-border ATM fees
Israel – toward cashless, government contemplates cash transaction controls
Kenya – people transacting nearly Sh20 billion daily through mobile phones
Maldives – old note being demonitized
Nigeria – ATMs overwhelmed by demand during the holidays, POS use remains very low
Nigeria – cashless & financial inclusion of rural communities
Nigeria – introduction of biometric ATMs
Nigeria – public reaction to the reimposition of cash handling fees at banks
Philippines – a photoshopped counterfeit
Philippines – BSP comments on error notes
Philippines – BSP on differentiating the P1 & P5 coins
Russia – ATMs running Windows-XP hacked
Russia – new banknotes & banknote processing
Scotland – new polymer substrate note features Mary Somerville
Switzerland – Swiss National Bank buys Landqart AG
UK – cash vs contactless – vying for being top payment type
UK – is the new L1 coin being counterfeited?
UK – rare coin from the reign of Charles II may sell for L400,000
US – forgotten notes & coins, where are they now?
US – the perils of a cashless economy
US/New Hampshire – resist the cashless society
US/New York – NYC restaurants that have gone cashless
Venezuela – bolivar currency now virtually worthless
Venezuela – people queue up at ATMs in severe cash crisis
Vietnam – concerns about ATM performance over the Tet holidays
Zimbabwe – rural businesses reluctant to move to “plastic money”
December 18 – 24 2017
Antigua – Bulgarian national arrested in ATM tampering
ATMs become a self-service alternative to bank branches
Bangladesh – improving the quality of BB banknotes
Canada – the financial impact of penny rounding in retail
Cardtonics – blog – a day in the life of cash
Closing ATM network security gaps to stop fraud
Fortress Paper sells security paper business
India – Bank of India to close 700 ATMs
India – demonitisation boosts Security Printing & Minting Corporation
India – toward financial inclusion in rural areas
Indonesia – low level of financial inclusion threatens the country’s economy
Kenya – payments & the e-commerce market
Nigeria – CBN reinstitutes cash handling fees for bank customers
Paper – BCG – why aren’t banks getting more from digital?
Paper – fintech & financial inclusion in China
Paper – study of perceptions & attitudes toward digital financial services in sub-Saharan Africa
Patent – GRGBanking – image identification system
Philippines – on exchanging old-style notes
Podcast – Uncivil – northern counterfeiting of Confederate currency during the Civil War
Shadow economy – is dodging taxes with cash payments acceptable?
Singapore – cashless cafe around the corner from MAS
Singapore – weak pull of the cashless push
Switzerland – SNB rescues domestic banknote printer
Tanzania – ATMs replacing mobile phone money agents
Turkey – smuggling of ancient coins & other artifacts
UK – Bank of England – how do we know how much money to print?
UK – payments regulator urged to prevent “ATM deserts” in parts of the country
UK – Roman coins found in Somerset field
US – casualties of the cashless society
US – Mint’s mutilated coin redemption program revived
US – the Fed, Marvin Goodfriend & the future of banknotes
US/California – marijuana businesses are awash with cash
Zimbabwe – toward cashless due to the severe cash shortage
December 9 – 17 2017
ATMIA & Withdraw-Cash-Wednesday
Australia – as costs mount, should the government abandon the cashless benefits card?
Best practices for moving to Windows 10 for ATMs
Cardtronics blog – low tech cash paying for high tech gifts
Diebold Nixdorf – senior management changes
Diebold Nixdorf – skimming infographic
FRB Boston – paper – understanding the US card-not-present fraud landscape
Germany – Bundesbank is still exchanging old deutschmarks
Germany – counting an inheritance of 1.2 million pennies by hand
India – coins vs small denomination paper tokens during the colonial era
India – demonitization has confused issues related to the acceptability of the Rs10 coin
India – seizure of demonitized notes
Iran – counterfeit gang busted
International ATM hacking scheme
Nigeria – CBN & financial inclusion
North Korea – discovery of new “super” counterfeit US$100s
Pakistan – ATMs vulnerable to hacking
Paper – cash vs card, payment discontinuities & the burden of holding coins
Paper – mobile banking usage, quality of growth, inequality & poverty in developing countries
Paper – mobile money in Mozambique
Patent – Innovia Security – animated security device for a document
Patent – Viavi Solutions – optically variable device comprising magnetic flakes
Sweden & Norway – toward cashless
Three fiat money systems that collapsed
Tipping apps hit the right note for street musicians
UK – 1/5 of ATMs now charge for cash withdrawals
UK – Brits increasingly losing touch with cash payments in retail
UK – Cardtronics plans to downsize ATM fleet
UK – new L1 coin affects pay phone business
UK – Payments System Regulator monitoring LINK ATM plans
UK – Royal Mint Museum buys rare Henry VII shilling for L52,000
UK – some parts of the country – but very few – have too many ATMs
US – ATM withdrawals increased by 6% in 2016
US – more on the counterfeit US$100 found in South Korea
US/Colorado – cashless coffee shop in Boulder
US/Florida – training film on banknote counterfeiting
US/Massachusetts – 7 Romanian nationals plead guilty to multistate ATM skimming
Venezuela – cash shortages & the use of Bitcoin
Venezuela – understanding the cash shortage
Zambia – counterfeits being dispensed by ATMs?
Zimbabwe – not ready for its own currency yet
Zimbabwe – on the causes of chronic cash shortages
December 1 – 8 2017
A history of coins & notes made by conflict
Australia – APN paper – the digital economy, November 2017
Australia – controversy over cashless welfare program
Australia – counterfeiting of A$50 notes
Australia – don’t hold your breath for the emergence of a cashless society
Australia – RBA expects ATM fleets to shrink as cash usage declines
Australia – toward cashless retail
Book – banknote management for central banks
Canada – more businesses are snubbing cash
Croatia – how dirty is the nation’s currency?
Europe – ATM skimming bust by Europol
Europe – ECB paper – modelling euro banking quality
Fed, paper money, monetary policy, negative interest rates
FRB Boston – paper – everyday mobile payments, finally feasible?
G&D – BPS G2, new banknote processing system
Ghana – impact of cashless on the banking industry
Glory TellerInfinity & America First CU
India – foreign banks closing down many ATMs
India – impact of demonitization
India – shortages of high denomination notes in ATMs
India – some banks have imposed an undeclared ban on the deposit of coins
Indonesia – introduction of the National Payment Gateway
Israel – should Orthodox Jews look at the new 50 shekel note?
Kenya – M-Pesa transactions for the blind
Kenya – mobile money transfers increasing
KrebsonSecurity – skimmer detectors
Malaysia – on the future of ATMs
Mastercard cash pickup service & Cross River Bank
Pakistan – hackers are going after ATMs
Paper – mobile technologies & revenue opportunities for merchant ATMs
Philippines – fintech & Islamic micro-finance in Mindanao
Security printing, a central banker’s perspective
Study – Cambodia, mobile phones & financial inclusion
Sweden – even panhandlers accept cashless payments
Thailand – QR code payments vs cash payments
UK – ATMs, the drug trade, Bitcoin, money laundering
UK – Bank of England – banknote bulletin, December 2017
UK – drug dealers are laundering cash at Bitcoin ATMs
UK – fighting counterfeits during the holiday season
UK – retailer cashback at POS can substitute for some ATM fleet shrinkage
US – how did the Mint manufacture coins in the 1790s?
US – new variety of “super” $100 counterfeits detected in South Korea
Venezuela – can a virtual currency ease the country’s economic crisis?
Visa – paper – innovations for a cashless world, 2017
World Bank, microcredit, financial inclusion & the poor
