Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – November 2014 Links
30 November, 2014
Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – November 2014 Links
November 24 – 30 2014
Ace bronze blog – German currency, 1921-1923
Ace Bronze blog – the first milled coins
ATMIA publishes global ATM fraud survey 2014
Australia/CSIRO – book – the plastic banknote, from conception to reality (November 2014)
Austria & Canada – the role of card acceptance in the transaction demand for money
Canada – police warning about counterfeit US$100s in Edmonton
Cardtronics settles ATM accessibility suit
CiT – modelling the risk-constrained CiT vehicle routing problem
China – man goes berserk when ATM rejects his card
DeLaRue – earnings & business prospects
Europe – EAST publishes ATM fraud update
Greece – ancient, Alexander the Great coins, found in ancient tomb
Hackers targeting ticketing machines & kiosks
India – paying traffic fines without the need for cash
India – Punjab National Bank announces there will be no cap on the number of free ATM transactions
India – using ATM-like kiosks to lodge complaints with the police
Ireland – toward cashless fares
Italy – counterfeit euro ring busted in Naples
Kenya – complementary currencies for sustainable development, Bangla-Pesa
Kenya – legal challenge against cashless fares
Lithuania – well-prepared for the euro
Malaysia – smartphones enabling cashless payments
NCR & cheque truncation in India
Netherlands – migrants choice of remittance channel
Nigeria – banknote controversy
Nigeria – telecoms vs banks in the cashless economy
Pakistan – toward a cashless economy
Peru – US$1.3 million in counterfeits seized by police
Sweden – paper – coinage in medieval Sweden
TheConversation – proceeds of crime, how polymer banknotes were invented
TIO Networks – patent on change-based ATM transactions
US – an admiral & counterfeit casino chips
US – Mint coin production database
US/Connecticut – yes, $2 bills are the real thing
US/Florida – promoting cashless payments at the supermarket
Vietnam – counterfeits that are “raised notes”
November 17 – 23 2014
ATM Marketplace – banks looking to upgrade ATM fleets in 2015, per Cummins Allison survey
Austria – coin of the year awards
Bank of Finland – study – promoting efficient retail payments in Europe
Belarus – modernizing payments system, towards less cash
Bundesbank – study – the volume of euro coins held for transaction purposes in Germany
Canada – 50,000 people sign petition to have more women on banknotes
Canada – coin of the year award
Canada – eliminating the penny has been all positive
Canada – report – toward a faster payments system
Denmark stops minting coins & printing banknotes in-house
Dentons – report – international payment card regulations in Russia
Developing countries & cashless payments
EconomistsIncorporated – study – relative merits of cash & cards in retail
Europe – consumers at the center of financial services policies
FRB NY blog – postage stamps show the history of banking
Global market for electronic toll collection systems
Glory cash recycling at First Tennessee Bank
India – ATM security guidelines ignored a year after brutal attack
India – Axis Bank self-service ATMs
India – RBI ATM fee regulations being challenged in court
India – RBI saving money by producing banknote paper domestically
Indonesia – paper – assessing the political impacts of a conditional cash transfer
Kenya – M-Pesa launches integrated budget management smartphone app
Morrison/Foerster – paper – progress on payment services in Europe
Nigeria – cashless policy framework – video
Northern Ireland – sharp rise in counterfeit notes
Norway – kids design banknotes in competition
PC Magazine – how your smartphone is killing cash
Planet Retail – paper – trends in automated retail cash handling
South Korea – counterfeit money not refundable by your bank
Sri Lanka – central bank seeking to relieve coin shortages
Thailand – armored carrier driver arrested in ATM cash theft case
Trinidad & Tobago – new banknote
Ukraine – rebels get equipment to allow them to print Ukrainian currency
US – BEP – currency reader for the blind
US – how a US$1 bill is printed, in numerous pictures
US – imaginative redesigns of US banknotes
US/Georgia – 3 go to federal prison for mass ATM skimming
US/Maryland – state of the art ATM
Vietnam – police arrest Bulgarian with cloned ATM cards
World’s ten most cashless countries
November 9 – 17 2014
Agfa Graphics – new security printing software
Albania – low level employee stole $6.5 million from central bank
American Banker – can advertising revenue take the place of ATM surcharges
Argentina – group advocates a banknote featuring the pope
Austria – anatomy of a currency scandal
Cash & cashless-progress around the world
CetoLogic & Bankers Bank Northeast
Crane – risk taking keeps the company in the money
Diebold – branch technology transformation initiative
Dirtiest household item is the banknote (& coins)
FRBNY blog – on the history of handbags for carrying money around
G&D – passes banknote ethics accreditation
Gibraltar – counterfeiters from Lithuania
India – ATM card cloning gang busted
Indonesia – financial inclusion & non-cash payments
Ireland & the coin of the year awards
ISIS probably is not contemplating coinage, a skeptical take
ISIS – thinking about its own coinage
JDS Uniphase – Board & stockholder developments
KBA – business & financial results
Mexico – digital payments & financial inclusion
Morocco – central bank & Crane agree to print banknotes for other countries
New Zealand – a store stops taking cash payments
New Zealand – new banknote designs
Nigeria – 3 citizens sue central bank over ATM fees
Nigeria – national electronic ID card
Nigeria – unveiling of a digital banknote, N100
Philippines – Bulgarians arrested for ATM skimming
PwC_paper_managing cybersecurity risks in an interconnected world
Romania – young inventor wins European award for ATM theft prevention invention
South Africa – banknote printers conference for African central banks
South Africa – how the M-Pesa/Kenya model had to be modified for SA
Spain – cashless vending (in spanish)
Sweden- toward a cashless society
Tanzania – replacing a banknote with a coin
Trying to live on mobile payments for a whole week
Turkey – GRG virtual teller machines
UK – how many people have touched your money before you touched it
UK – on regulating the national payments sector
UK – Royal Mint is modernizing
US – how the dollar went from an also-ran to the world currency
US/Pennsylvania – bank teller catches counterfeiter at her own yard sale
US/Tennessee – using factory settings to steal from ATMs
Wincor Nixdorf – financial & business results
November 3 – 8 2014
ATM makers – NCR, Diebold, Wincor Nixdorf – helping to accelerate change in branch banking
ATMIA – branch transformation guide
Australia – ANZ working with NCR on an EMV-capable ATM
Authentication science – new kind of ink mimics beetle’s color shifting capabilities
Canada – getting more women onto the country’s banknotes
Costa Rica – 3 central bank employees arrested for stealing unfit banknotes destined for destruction
Costa Rica – counterfeit US currency
Crane – chairman speaking at UNH event
Diebold – responsive banking concept
Fincen scrutiny of virtual currency companies
FRBNY blog – a stitch in time saves you from carrying around worthless money
Fraunhofer – 3D scanner with adaptive resolution characteristics
G&D & Bundesdruckerei joint venture
Garda, Wausau & vault check capture
Germany – phantom banknotes from the era of East & West Germany
Germany – why most payments are made with cash
How to tip in a cashless world – video
India – abused women willing to tell all to ATM-like kiosks
India – regulations on the import of currency paper & security paper
Ireland – new cashless payment method aimed at speeding up ordering drinks at bars
Kenya – cashless payments on public transport
Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank & microlending
NBER paper – non-legal tender paper money, Maryland bills of credit, 1767-1775
NCR – 130 years of innovation & service
Nigeria – over 160k POS terminals installed
Norway – on the design of new currency
Peru – new, more secure banknote
Philippines – guarding ATM facilities from robbers
Poland – cashless payments on buses
Pymnts – how consumers pick payment instruments
SecuringIndustry – anti-counterfeiting news highlights
Singapore – implementing cash back at POS
South Africa – solar-powered ATMs
Sweden – should it fear becoming a cashless society
UK – new picture of Queen Elizabeth II on all coins in 2015
UK – Tesco ATM in Wales has a serious language translation problem
US – Smithsonian on the history of US currency
US – Treasury/BEP – the long trek toward a banknote the blind can recognize
US – what our cash could like if it was devoted to dead white men
US/New York – free-of-fee ATMs in NYC
US/New York – hardly anyone makes calls on pay phones anymore, but they still make money
Wincor Nixdorf – self service systems in Germany
