Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – January 2015 Links
30 January, 2015
Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – January 2015Â Links
January 26 – 31 2015
Bangladesh – the mobile commerce opportunity
Canada – casino ATM falls on top of ATM thief, video
Canada – Nigerian national arrested for passing US counterfeits in Ottawa
CetoLogic – 3 new CU clients in the US
Consult Hyperion – consumers will decide whether & when we will have a cashless society
Crane Payment Innovations, MEI & banknote recycling
Cummins Allison – fighting counterfeits
Currency News – speculating on what’s in store for currency across the world in 2015
DeLaRue – earnings expectations, not rosy
Global & China banknote discriminating machine, 2015, report
India – 2015 will be a game-changer for financial inclusion
Indonesia – warning about counterfeits
Ireland – coin design competition
Is the impact of mobile phones a myth?
JDS Uniphase – FY2015 IIQ results
Kenya – toward cashless public transport
Malaysia – arrests & warning about very well-made counterfeit notes
Micros Chip seeks licensees for currency authentication feature
NCR – innovations in grocery store checkouts
Nigeria – in spite of the cashless policy, there are still lots of cheques
Nigeria – spread of ePOS will facilitate cashless shopping
Pakistan – innovations in currency processing
Peru – coin wins international design award
Scotland – arrest in string of ATM bombings
South Korea – counterfeit note statistics
UK – a local currency in Exeter
UK -Â Banknote Character Advisory Committee
UK – “Boom,” the inside story of ATM thefts
UK – coins with a new Queen Elizabeth II portrait
UK – LINK indicates that ATMs are at an all-time high
UK – parking machines do not take new 10p coin
UK – toward cashless payments & the near-demise of cash
Ukraine – Crimean mosque featured on new coin
US – counterfeiting missionary & the fake Pittsburgh playboy
US – legislation introduced to lower cost of making coins
US – Mint, new deputy director
US/New Jersey – ringleader of $5m ATM skimming scheme pleads guilty
US/Washington – the history of an 1880 banknote
US/Washington – wooden nickels did circulate as money in the 1930s
Zambia – counterfeit kwacha notes
January 21 – 26 2015
ATM adoption, 1960s, ApplePay adoption, 2010s, which was faster
Australia – RBA – trends in consumer payments
Bill Gates & financial inclusion
Capco – paper – financial inclusion, from margins to mainstream
China – banknote sorter industry report
Estonia – counterfeit banknote stats
Europe – euro forgeries, IIH 2014
Federal Reserve – strategies to improve the US payments system
Garda – blog – Bank of America partnership
Germany – counterfeit euro stats
Hong Kong – taxi passenger suffers heart attack after receiving a “hell banknote” in change
India – government-sponsored payment card, RuPay, offers 1% cashback to induce more sign-ups
India – SBI deploying 2000+ CMS cash recyclers
India – toward mobile payments
LexisNexis – report – fraud in mobile payments 2014
MIT Technology Review – can mobile money conquer new markets
MIT Technology Review – technology repaints the payment landscape
NCR – Pulse Banking package to monitor & manage mobile & remote resources in banks
NCR – Silver – more options in the product line
New Zealand – giant extinct penguins will be featured on banknote
Nigeria – toward a less-cash society
Philippines – banks to unify ATM networks
OliverWyman – report – managing complexity, the state of the financial services industry in 2015
Singapore – on managing a bank ATM network
Singapore – gold-dispensing ATM
Three-D print your own counterfeit detector
Turkey – mobile payments & the cloud
UK – Barclaycard introduces a payment wristband for TfL
UK – one in every 30 L1 coins is a fake
UK – who would you like to see on English banknotes?
US – cash still dominates at retail, per a commercial survey
US – how Hollywood makes the fake currency that’s in the movies
US – should our coins all have steel cores?
US Mint – prominent coin designer obituary
US/Iowa – ATM thefts becoming a common crime
US/Oregon – turning a physical piggy bank into a virtual piggy bank
US/Pennsylvania – banknotes from the national banking era
Western Union – study – on the impact of remittances in the Philippines
Wincor Nixdorf – on the growth of currency recycling
Zimbabwe – domestic coins & dollarization
January 14 – 20 2015
ATMs – on the history of ATM design
Australia – fake $50s & $100s in circulation
Australia – on the value of pre-decimal coins
Bangladesh – toward financial inclusion & cashless
BankInfoSecurity – ATMs, attacking multi-channel fraud
Belarus – toward cashless payments
Cambodia – controversy over new banknote
Canada – 2 charged for passing counterfeit US$50s
Cuba – introducing higher denomination banknotes
Diebold – streamlining Latin American operations
Discovery – the inside story on armored carriers & cash transportation – video
FRBNY – blog – the world of bank names according to Andy Rooney
Ghana – banks encouraging consumers to get ATM cards
Ghana – how mobile phones are changing rural life
Glory – paper – on automated cash handling
Grameen Foundation – paper – opportunities for increasing access to digital finance in Nigeria
Guam – woman pleads guilty to passing counterfeit US$100s to feed her meth habit
India – additional steps being taken by RBI & the banks to distribute new notes
India – ATM that will give crooks a non-fatal electric shock is developed
India – financial inclusion report
Kenya – difficulties moving from cash to cashless on the nation’s bus system
Kenya – mobile money transaction stats in 2014
KPMG – report – the changing world of money
NAMA introduces a vending & payments blog
Namibia – counterfeit US$ dollars
NCR – relocating Atlanta headquarters from suburbs to the city
Nelmar – risks associated with daily corporate deposits
New Zealand – a monetary system analogue computer
Nigeria – CBN says the cashless policy has reduced kidnapping in the country
Nigeria – financial inclusion insights study
Nigeria – innovation in the new N100 note
Patent – Scan Coin AB – coin deposit & dispensing apparatus
Patent – Spectra Systems – cleaning of banknotes using supercritical fluids
Peru – Mastercard & mobile money
Philippines – Visa survey shows Filipinos interested in alternative payment methods
Slovakia – a Slovak who appeared on a banknote during the National Banking era in the US
South Africa – Vodacom, M-Pesa, EMV & prepaid cards
Study – financial inclusion & regulation in Sri Lanka
Study – patterns of mobile phone use in developing countries
Study – the challenge of developing a mobile transport app in Egypt
Study – the dynamics of payments in the Balkans during a period of conflict
Tanzania – cooperation between Royal Mint & East African monetary authorities
Thailand – cooperation between UK & Thailand mints
Thailand – Mint seeks to be coin minting hub for southeast Asia
Tomorrow’s Transactions blog – could you spot a fake E20 note?
UK – bus driver refuses Scottish note, teen is forced to walk home
UK – controversy over L2 coin commemorating Magna Carta
UK – iPod nano used to ATM skimming attempt
US – bill to terminate the presidential dollar coin program introduced in Congress
US – profile of a counterfeiter of casino chips (who is in prison)
US – the War of 1812 & the US Mint
US/Oregon – gang of 5 from Las Vegas arrested with fake gift cards
US/Texas – man cashes in 500 lbs of pennies, 81,600 pennies, receives $816
Zimbabwe – bank branches vs mobile payments
January 8 – 13 2015
ATM-Marketplace – ATM industry wins victory against patent trolls
Australia – Bendigo Bank ATM fees
BankInfoSecurity – are contactless ATMs the wave of the future
BankInfoSecurity – ATM security, improving threat intelligence
Businessweek – who is carrying around US$100s
Can technology stay ahead of currency counterfeiting?
CheckAlt & Altantic Coast Bank’s ATMs
China – ATM industry report, 2014-2018
Cummins Allison – money & counters part of a healthy gaming business
Denmark – number of coins in circulation down, a sign of increased electronic commerce
Egypt – first ATM security cabinet
Federal Reserve Board – paper – Bitcoin, technical background & data analysis
Federal Reserve Cash Product Office – Cash Horizons newsletter
Fifth Third Bank, Balance Innovations & cash services
Gaza – ATMs being bombed by militants
Hong Kong – counterfeit HK$1000 banknotes
India – Methodex Systems fighting banknote counterfeiting & product counterfeiting
India – on the emergence of e-wallets
Indonesia – growing incidence of counterfeits
Infosys Ltd – on the future of ATMs & kiosks
Italy – euro banknote factory busted
Kenya – Wells Fargo, dominant armored carrier in the country, on strike
Malaysia – single electronic ticketing system for commuting by 2017
Myanmar – Thai arrested with counterfeits
NCR, the cloud & supermarket self-checkout
Nigeria – Sterling Bank plans large increase in cashless infrastructure
Patent – Wincor Nixdorf – cash box with plate closing unit & ability to processing value notes
Patent – Wincor Nixdorf – handling value notes
Philippines – old banknotes being demonitized
Smithsonian – the ATM is dead, long live the ATM
Sophic Capital – report – counterfeit money, keeping a step ahead of the criminals
South Africa – counterfeiters arrested
South Korea – banks reducing ATM fleets in response to mobile banking & payments
UK – mystery behind the cache of Anglo-Saxon coins
USA Technologies – business prospects
US – 1793 penny sells at auction for $2.3 million
US Mint produced 13.2 billion coins in 2014
US/California – Beverly Hills man pays most-ever for a penny
Vietnam – central bank destroying more worn & damaged banknotes
Wincor Nixdorf announces 4 new products at NRF in NY
WSFS ATM Division, Cash Connect & Loomis
Zambia – micro-finance & m-payments
Zimbabwe – domestic coins encounter great customer resistance
Zimbabwe – the future of branches in light of mobile payments
January 1 – 7 2015
Applied DNA Sciences textile authentication technology
ATM/Atom – operational impact of EMV on ATMs
ATMs – turn your device into a cash-generating machine
BBVA – report – banking & the millennials paradox
Borneo – counterfeiter arrested
Canada – paper – toward a speedier & more efficient payments system
CetoLogic – deposit reclassification & retail sweeps
China – banknote awakens man in a persistent vegetative state
China – on large-scale counterfeiting by Japanese occupiers during WWII
CI-Tech – additions to the CI Note processing family
Diebold – anti-microbial ATM touchscreen
FRB Boston – paper – US consumer holdings & use of $100 bills
Greece – the mystery of how ancient Greeks minted coins is solved by Australian scientists
Holograms & the anti-counterfeiting outlook
IBM – studies – cyber-attacks on retailers in 2014
India – Nepali nationals arrested with counterfeits
India – on mobile payments in rural areas
India – ATM-like kiosk where women can report sexual assaults
JCM Global currency validation technology
Kenya – mobile payments & financial inclusion
Lithuania – smooth transition to the euro
Maldives – proposed new banknote designs
Mauritania – new banknote issued on polymer substrate
Nigeria – long queues at banks show acceptance of cashless policy is low
Nigeria – population still has not taken to the cashless policy
Paper – classification systems for nonbank monetary regimes
Paper – competition in the cryptocurrency market
Paper – consumer payment choices
Paper – shrouded transaction costs
Paper – the role of card acceptance in the transaction demand for money
Somaliland – banknotes, coins, shortages, exchange rates
UAE – gang arrested with US$20 million in counterfeits
UK – burglars using a version of note-sniffing to identify houses worth raiding
UK – cashless ticketing & other purchases at concert venues
UK – is this the world’s worst counterfeit banknote?
UK – paper – how fiscal policy affects the price level, Britain’s first experience with paper money
UK – treasure hunter finds 1000+ year old cache of Anglo-Saxon coins
US/California – pictures of San Francisco during the gold rush show the minting of gold coins
US/Illinois – Wintrust, FIS & cardless ATMs
US/Massachusetts – banning ATMs in casinos
Wincor Nixdorf retail application software
Zimbabwe – impact of M-Pesa on branch banking
