Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – September 2014 Links
26 September, 2014
Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – September 2014 Links
September 26 – October 3 2014
AARP – who is at risk from identity theft
ATM Marketplace – how to cut the cost of inefficient cash processing
Australia – ATM channel under pressure from electronic payments
Australia – consumers addicted to cash despite rise in card usage
Australia – RBA annual payments report, 2014
Austria – former central bank officials found guilty of kickbacks in banknote case
Bangladesh – counterfeit ring busted
Bangladesh – retail banking challenges
Canada – hologram coin from Royal Canadian Mint
Canada – US counterfeits in Winnepeg
Chatham House – about all the change in your pocket
Cryptocurrency will challenge traditional transaction platforms
Cummins Allison – new JetScan currency scanner
DeLaRue – why banknote printing is becoming less profitable
Ecuador – a domestic cryptocurrency?
Egypt – growth in electronic payments
India – an Rs0 banknote is worth exactly nothing
India – Mysore facility to print banknote paper for RBI
Japan – Mint looking for overseas business
Kenya – Sh300,000 in counterfeits
Kenya – M-Pesa to double transaction capacity by 2015
Malaysia – Venezuelans involved in ATM fraud?
Nigeria – ATMs remain a key banking channel for retail customers
Nigeria – international money transfer initiative
Patent – Deangelo – money bill authentication & theft prevention system
Patent – Glory – paper sheet storage device
Patent – GRGBanking – arced passage transfer apparatus
Patent – WalMart – systems & methods for saving a remainder of cash transactions
Patent – Wincor Nixdorf – device & method for filling a transport container with notes
Romania – domestic money transfer service
Thailand – Bulgarians arrested for ATM skimming
UK – rare 1935 L1000 note may sell for L20,000
UK – twitter troll who threatened banknote advocate gets 18 week jail sentence
US – GAO on currency reader program for the blind
US – Mint launches new website
US/Pennsylvania – tip jar can be filled up with electronic money from mobile phones
Wales – what would children do with L1 million, a study
September 21 – 26 2014
ATM Marketplace – on the ATM business
Australia – RBA – path to innovation in the payments infrastructure
Authentication science – banknote-style holograms on wine
BNY Mellon – global payments 2020
CheckALT – ATM reconciliation service
EFMA – the ATM is far from dead
Elan – paper – how to profit from ATM, guide for retailers & restaurants
FRB Boston – tokenization landscape in US payments
Germany – cash-intensive shopping as a target for ApplePay
Ghana – mobile banking & financial inclusion
India – banknote experts visit US to gain more expertise
Ireland – rising cost of zinc affecting the cost of coins
Israel – currency design controversy
Italy – massive counterfeit bust
Nigeria – ATM uses & challenges
Nigeria – banks start to provide financial incentives to customers using e-payments
Nigeria – CBN – cashless policy adds 67,000 jobs
Patent – Bank of America – dynamic keypad & fingerprint sequence authentication
Patent – Glory – storage bag & paper sheet storing device
Patent – GRGBanking – arced passage transfer apparatus
Patent – Wincor Nixdorf – method for filling a transport container with notes
Rwanda – on financial inclusion
Tidel – costs of cash management across different retail functions
Turkey – counterfeit US currency
US – GAO report – on banknote design & the sight impaired
US – the halfpenny coin was killed in the 1850s
VendingTimes – Mint readies coin study for US Congress
September 17 – 20 2014
Africa – mobile payments driving the continent’s cashless future – Harvard Business Review
Australia – Direct Cash Payments acquires Ezeatm Ltd
Cambodia – Thai nationals arrested with US$7 million in counterfeits
Myanmar – central bank taking steps to fight counterfeiting
Netherlands – FOBISS cash supply chain management solution
Patent – Arjowiggins – reflective optical structure
Patent – Barry – tactile feature tool
Patent – GRGBanking – guider for conveying sheet-shaped object
Patent – GRGBanking – method for assuring fund safety of self-service terminal user
Patent – Liao – paper money detection & counting device
Patent – NCR – self-service terminal
Patent – Warm – dollar coin converter
UK – ancient Anglo Saxon penny comes up at auction
UK – what’s the dirtiest banknote in your wallet
US – BEP prints 576 million banknotes in August
US – on the penny – Forbes – US loses money on making money
US – on the penny – Government Executive journal supports its abolition
US – on the penny – Wall Street Journal supports its abolition
US – payment & patent developments
US – why is the US a laggard in mobile payments – Time magazine
Vietnam – Russian national jailed in ATM scam
Would the world be better without banknotes & coins – article, Economist
Would the world be better without banknotes & coins – video, Economist
September 12 – 17 2014
Abu Dhabi – banknotes are a window on the country
Africa – Mastercard & financial inclusion
ATMs & the battle for Bitcoin’s physical interface
ATM security via 24×7 remote surveillance
Australia – do you know your money?
BIS – paper – nonbanks in retail payments
Bitcoin & Apple Payments will not kill off cash
Book idea – Wildcat Currency, Edward Castronova, Yale University Press, 2014
Boston Consulting Group – report – global payments 2014, capturing the next level of value
Canada – ATM operator reports that cash is still king
Canada – counterfeit US$50s in Nova Scotia
Canada – small businesses & Bitcoin
Cummins Allison, Wausau Financial Systems & Dunbar deliver cash & check deposit services
Democratic Republic of Congo – mobile banking is a big challenge in remote areas
Europe – M-Pesa starts to penetrate the continent
FRB Philadelphia – paper – consumer credit & payments
FRB Philadelphia – paper – identity theft as a teachable moment
Giving money away to strangers
Hungary – burning old money for fuel
India – cash back at point of sale
India – the dependence of consumers & businesses on physical cash is destined to fall
Ireland – mobile wallets may change how we all checkout at point-of-sale
Ireland – on the replacement of banknotes stained by dye-packs in bank & ATM robberies
Kuwait – few attempts to counterfeit new banknotes
Myanmar – high quality counterfeits yield call for central bank action
Nigeria – courts hold up ATM/cash surcharge policy
Nigeria – on the development of electronic payment channels
Pakistan – banknotes defaced with political slogans cease to be legal tender
Pakistan – man jailed for writing a slogan on a banknote
Philippines – fighting ATM & card fraud
Rwanda – traditional payments & electronic payments
Scotland – bus company loses L50,000 to fake pound coins
Scotland – how many groats for that haggis?
Scotland – worries about independence outcome sparks a run on ATMs
Sri Lanka – is the world going toward cashless payments
Standard Chartered – report – financial inclusion, on reaching the unbanked
Tidel – on the management of cash in business using traditional means
UK – contactless payments arrive on the London Underground
UK – worldwide zinc shortage affecting the cost of English coins
US – zinc shortage could spell the doom of the penny
US/Florida – 7th major counterfeit card bust in Sarasota in 2014
US/New York – a fly disables a New York City ATM
US/Ohio – Secret Service reports that counterfeits are quite rare in circulation
September 6 – 12 2014
Australia – interview with a coin designer
Azerbaijan – law enforcement catches counterfeit US notes
China – RMB100 million in counterfeit notes seized
Cummins Allison – deposit module automation
Cummins Allison & self-service coin counting in the UK
DeLaRue – Bank of England designates company as preferred producer of plastic substrate notes
Europe – white-label ATM services
France – Lusis Payments, Nets Group, ATMs
Fujitsu biometric technology for Bitcoin ATMs
India – ATM transactions without a card
India – government is legally permitted to produce Rs1 denomination notes
Indonesia – introduction of mPOS
Kenya – debit cards are not catching on
Lebanon – 2 Syrians arrested for selling counterfeit gold coins
Malta – Cameroon nationals arrested for black money scam
Nigeria – on the growth of consumer online payments
Patent – Fujitsu Frontech – medium detector & medium conveyor device
Patent – Glory – automatic dealing machine & system
Patent – GRGBanking – bill transmission channel device
Patent – GRGBanking – cash box provided with self-locking mechanism
Patent – GRGBanking – control system based on single power caching mechanism
Patent – GRGBanking – sorting & bundling all-in-one machine
Patent – Intematix Corp – phosphor based authentication system
Patent – MacPherson – security display devices
Patent – Sigma Laboratories – methods for fabrication of polymer based optically variable devices
Philippines – BSP currency production shortfall
Tanzania – Millicom & mobile money
UK – Bank of England paper on virtual currencies
UK – design competition for new L1 coin
UK – Twitter pranksters hijack L1 coin design competition
UK – will English merchants accept Scottish banknotes if Scots vote for independence?
US – on the lifespan of US banknotes – infographic
US – why is US currency green?
September 1 – 5 2014
Asia – the high-denomination banknotes reviewed
ATM history – 45th anniversary of the first ATM in the US
ATM Marketplace – how do you manage your ATM cash supply
Australia – epidemic of counterfeit A$50 notes
Australia – the burning of money has a rich history
Bulgaria – banknote replaced with a coin
BusinessInsider – slide deck – on the future of the payments industry
Canada – Royal Canadian Mint proceeds with the divestiture of MintChip
Cashless future – an infographic
Elan Financial Services & ATM Depot Inc
Gizmodo – the terrifying evolution of ATM skimmers
KrebsonSecurity – analysis of currency counterfeits
Latin America – state-backed digital money experiments
Malaysia – penalty pricing to reduce the use of cheques
Nigeria – accelerating the clearing of cheques to one business day
Nigeria – poll indicates Nigerians unhappy about the ATM surcharges under the cashless policy
On the future of authentication, an interview
Patent – GRGBanking – identification method for valuable file & identification device
Patent – MEI – banknote validator
Patent – NCR – media alignment
Patent – Pinault – system & method for electronic money end of life management
Patent – Troy Group – method for adjusting quality of a pantograph background pattern
Philippines – credit card & ATM fraud
RFID Journal – benefits of going cashless
Saudi Arabia – men & women’s ATMs
Scotland – can it be independent & keep the pound?
UK – dirty money, how many hands have touched that L10 note in your wallet
UK – rape threats against advocate for women on banknotes said to be a joke by defendant
US – from silver to clad coins
US – legal fight over a $250k coin
US – survey shows millennials are the driver to a less-cash society
US – visit to the San Francisco Mint
US/Louisiana – on the history of the New Orleans Mint
US/New York – ATM thieves caught after running a red light
US/New York – does anyone care about pennies these days
Vietnam – 2 year sentence for ATM skimming
