Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – February 2015 Links
03 March, 2015
Counting on Currency’s Cash-per-diem – February 2015
February 27 – March 3 2015
Argentina – citizens underwhelmed by Falklands banknotes
Australia – counterfeits found in Sydney park were of very poor quality
Australia – Romanian ATM scammer gets 7 year sentence
Authentication science – mollusk as a model for anti-counterfeiting features
Authentication science – QR codes with photon encryption
Brookings – providing internet access to the developing world
Canada – really bad counterfeiter gets 18 months probation
Canada – ruining Canadian $5s to make them look like Dr Spock
Cash Handling Journal – cash cycles in Europe, central bank strategies
Digital Check – paper – the disappearing check, how much longer until the end?
FRB Atlanta blog – on security at the ATM
FRB NY blog – on the demise of silver certificates
Gambia – polymer substrate banknotes
GSMA – paper – internet of things & family life
GSMA – paper – mobile economy 2015
GSMA – paper – mobile money & the underbanked
GSMA – paper – mobile phones & the gender gap
Hyosung & branch transformation
India – counterfeit currency smuggling on the Nepal border
India – e-payment cards as a substitute for pocket money
India – the history of India in 15 banknotes
JDSU laser business spun off as Lumentum
Kenya – man behind country’s financial revolution retires from government service
Nigeria – only 13.7m citizens use ATM cards
South Africa – mobile banking revolution
Sweden – a nearly-cashless society in Stockholm
Thailand – French ATM gang is busted
TMD Security – anti-skimming kit for ATMs
UK – mobile payments & less-cash society
UK – Queen’s new portrait on the coins
US – a scattering of cash-only businesses
US – BEP & Eagle Hill Consulting
US – coin metal value calculator
US – there is still alot of life left in the ATM
February 21 – 26 2015
Africa – rapid e-commerce development
Applied DNA Sciences – software & services platform
Argentina – putting the Falklands on a banknote
ATMIA – cash always works, the video
Australia – Royal Mint celebrates 50 years
Authentication science – authenticating bottles of liquor
Book review – Cashbox – the invention & globalization of the ATM
Botswana – ATM network developments
China – large counterfeiting operation is busted
Convergex – commentary – the cashless economy is very far away
Cummins Allison – CUs in Canada & coin recycling
Cummins Allison – report – changing face of the ATM market
Currency News – disruptive technology in currency
Egypt – 94% of all transactions in cash, working to go more cash-lite
Hong Kong – the HK$1000 note & money laundering
Hungary – student comes up with hypothetical designs for currency
India – cashless payments on Delhi metro
India – security breach at banknote printer
Iran – shady cash traffic between Turkey & Iran is larger than expected
Israel – archeologists stumble across a hoard of gold coins in the Mediterranean
Kuwait – dust storm blows all of the notes out of an ATM
Malawi – toward cashless payments
Mastercard – interview – toward cashless
Myanmar – m-commerce & m-payments
Nanotech Security & anticounterfeiting
Nigeria – the bank verification number (BVN) & the cashless policy
Nigeria – Visa & the cashless policy
Online payment methods around the world – infographic
Pymnts.com – M-Pesa & the secret of mobile payments
RetailPerceptions – paper – how mobile wallets are changing retail
Russia – ATM that makes micro-loans
Singapore – defective note worth S$1700, but owner isn’t selling
South Africa – eye scanners instead of PINs at the ATM
Tanzania – mobile money developments
UK – Isaac Newton & the Royal Mint
US – digital payments do little to slow the growth of paper money
US – what to do about the penny
US/California – some SF businesses struggle to differentiate counterfeits from genuine notes
US/New York – gang has stolen 73 ATMs in a year
US/North Dakota – prison inmate charged with counterfeiting
US/Wisconsin – can a blowtorch open an ATM?
Wincor Nixdorf & cashless payments in Germany
Wincor Nixdorf & Columbus Data Services
Zimbabwe – old currency from the hyperinflation period now being demonitized
Zimbabwe – taking a handful of candy rather than bond coins as change for a US$1
February 14 – 20 2015
Applied DNA Sciences – DNA Beacon identification platform
ARCA & CTS – cash automation solutions
ATM Marketplace – report – ATM Future Trends 2015
Australia – currency & coin reader for the blind
Australia – Royal Mint open house
Australia – woman’s ATM receipt suggests she has A$10 million in the bank
Austria – gang of counterfeiters busted
Authentication science – anti-counterfeit polymers work like fingerprints
Authentication science – multispectral imaging finds the fakes
Authentication science – wrinkled polymers have anti-counterfeit potential
BCG – Africa, mobile money report
Canada – fabric-substrate stamp
Currency supply chain going the way of the dinosaur?
Document Security Systems files suit against numerous companies for patent infringement
Ethiopia – mobile money service
Europe – Greek artist has been defacing euro banknotes for a year, a protest
Garda World blog – where did the US dollar bill come from, infographic
Ghana – a cashless society is not a cheque-less society
Hong Kong – on designing banknotes, a profile
Hoyos Labs – biometrics-based ATM
India – 15 convicted in counterfeit currency case
India – currency manufacturing errors
Israel – treasure trove of ancient coins found in the Mediterranean Sea
Kenya – mobile money use is up, card use down, per CBK
Mexico – expansion of mPOS & mobile payments
Nautilus Hyosung – new ATM offerings
Paper – US Experience with National Bank Notes
Patent – PH Glatfelter Co – tamper evident documents & inks
Rwanda – 3 arrested with counterfeits
Sweden – new banknotes & coins in 2015
UK – 1971, currency goes decimal
UK – Economist profiles the Royal Mint
UK – great train robbery memorabilia sold at auction
US – 4 ways Abraham Lincoln changed US currency
US – BEP printed 449 million banknotes in January 2015
US – BEP/US Treasury information request regarding sight impaired & currency
US – Mint produced 1.5 billion coins in January 2015
US – the Confederacy’s problems with its banknotes & coins
US/Illinois – against the penny
US/Oklahoma – artist considering another approach to his work after arrest for counterfeits
Vietnam – the places on the nation’s banknotes
Zimbabwe – bond coins improve pricing efficiency
Zimbabwe – mobile money & financial inclusion
February 6 – 13 2015
Applied DNA Sciences plays role in conviction of UK robber
ATM Marketplace – on the love of cash
Australia – next generation banknotes & the visually impaired
Azerbaijan – only 65% of the country’s businesses have bank accounts
Bangladesh – arrests in counterfeit case
Cash Handling Journal – on the new E20 note
David Birch – on the future of payments – youtube video
Diebold – transition continues
Egypt – Mastercard & cashless payments
Europe – ECB approaches to promote the authentication features on the new E20 note
G&D joins International Banknote Designers Association
India – security breach at mint may be an issue of national security
Kenya – electronification of government payments
Latin America – currency restrictions in Venezuela & Argentina create a black market for US dollars
Latin America – growth of mobile commerce
Multispectral Imaging extends vision technology capability
Myanmar – cashless future is still far off
Nanotech Security Corp receives 3-banknote related thin film orders
NCR – North American launch of SelfServ23 cash dispenser technology
New Zealand – colored coins commemorate Gallipoli centenary
Patent – Banqit – banknote detection device
Patent – Wincor Nixdorf – cashbox storage system
Patent – Wincor Nixdorf – device for invalidating value documents
Peru – US dollar counterfeits in 2014
Philippines – BSP contemplates buying more banknote printing equipment
Report – Hong Kong’s transition to cashless, 1965-2005
Report – mobile money – effect of service quality & competition on demand
Report – near-cashless payments in colonial North America
Report – near cashless payments in the US, early-republic period
Report – the limits of bimetalism in the 1870s
Report – the dual role of mobile payments in developing countries
South Africa – cashless society needs to be more inclusive
UK – a society without cash is a society in trouble
UK – cashless payments on the increase
UK – should the 1p & 2p coins be scrapped?
US – 1796 US penny sells for more than L50,000
US – BEP, a profile of its general counsel
US – BEP facilitates the recognition of banknotes by the sight-impaired
US – Secret Service dismantles international counterfeit currency network
US – should the US consider steel cores for its coins?
US – the ever changing design of US currency
US – the ink on a US dollar bill is surprising thick when viewed under a microscope
US – why is the dollar sign a letter S?
US/Florida – ATM skimming episodes on the rise
US/New York – $86m counterfeit scheme thwarted
US/Virginia – 2 Israeli nationals plead guilty to counterfeiting
Zimbabwe – how not to change a US$5 into a US$50
Zimbabwe – mobile money developments
February 1 – 6 2015
ATMIA – 2014 ATM EMV readiness survey report
Azerbaijan – municipalities prohibited to take cash in payment
Book review – the social life of money
Canada – counterfeit US$50s & US$100s
Central Banking Conference – new developments in banknote & currency management
Cummins Allison & branch transformation
Cummins Allison & River Hills Bank
Currency Supply Chain Institute conference
DeLaRue & Cape Verde banknotes
Dubai – cashless payments in restaurants
Glory – paper – managing cash transactions
Hong Kong – counterfeit HK$1000 banknotes
India – consumer protest to RBI about ATM fees & transaction limits
India – RBI instructs banks on how to handle counterfeits
India – toward 100% financial inclusion
Kenya – continued delay in the uptake of cashless fares on public transit
Malawi – the growth of mobile money
Nigeria – CBN promotes cashless cash management for businesses
Pakistan – central bank & commercial banks need to work together to improve currency quality
Pakistan – transformation of the cash processing business is expected in the next few years
Playing Monopoly with real euro banknotes
Quantum physics can help fight fraud by making card verification unspoofable
Rwanda – cross-border mobile money service
UK – anti-counterfeiting research
UK – cashless buses driving those with cash to minicabs
UK – Royal Mint puts coins to a severe quality test
US – understanding the authentication features on a US passport
US/Oklahoma – family discovers it has a nickel worth $3 million
US/Rhode Island – top casino chip counterfeiter publishes a memoir
