Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem

September 2020 cash per diem

September 26-30, 2020

Argentina – The Central Bank will urgently import 400 million $1,000 banknotes from Brazil to meet the demand for cash at the end of the year

Armored trucks stand ready for cash-carrying consumers to return

ATMs as vending machines

Bahamas – new note

Banknotes – 10 facts

Canada – fewer Canadians carrying cash

Canada – Cash & Covid-19: The impact of the pandemic on demand for & use of cash

Canada – 2019 cash alternative survey results

Canada – US counterfeits

Cash – this everyday staple may become extinct after Covid

Covid-19 & the search for digital alternatives to cash

Europe – EU considers phasing out 1c & 2c coins

Following the money – the future of cash

Greece – ancient Greek coins featured plants & trees

How dirty is cash anyway?

Hungary – new note

India – SBI & financial inclusion

Indonesia – fintech, financial inclusion, financial literacy

Libya – identifying fake & genuine banknotes

Nanotech Security welcomes order from Middle Eastern central bank

Nigeria – fintech & financial inclusion

Norway – toward cashless

Planet Money – podcast – The invention of paper money

Retail banks: rethink the costs of your cash distribution network

Seven options for restaurant cash handling procedures

South Korea – the pandemic & cash

UAE – toward cashless

Uganda – charging for ATM transactions

UK – how businesses are adapting to the decline of cash

UK – Free cash withdrawals from corner shops to protect those who need notes & coins

UK – Pilot scheme to allow people to withdraw cash from shop tills to be trialled in North Yorkshire

UK – Royal Mint reveals intricate anti-counterfeit measures for new coins – The Royal Mint has unveiled gold bullion coins which can be authenticated as genuine by moving them in the light.

UK – the pandemic & cash

US- 48% of Americans believe we won’t be using physical cash in 100 years

US – Americans don’t want to give up their paper money, but they should

US should replace the current $100 with a new one with unbreakable security

US/New Mexico national banknote sold in recent auction has great back story

September 21-25, 2020

Australia – counterfeit $100s

Australia – toward cashless

Bahamas – new note

Bank ATMs & teller counters need Covid-19 scrubbing

Chuck E Cheese is asking to destroy 7 billion prize tickets so it can save $1 million

Coin designer Chris Costello documents history & culture with numismatic art

DALBAR finds gaps in Covid safety protocols among North American bank branches by deploying its secret shopping capabilities

Digital technology is stimulating financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ensuring ATMs aren’t the weakest link to banking cybersecurity

Ethiopia’s banknote change implementation runs into a bump

Ethiopia – demonetization scheme to tackle economic woes

India – has printing of Rs2000 notes stopped

India – No decision to discontinue printing of Rs 2,000 notes: Finance Ministry

India – SBI implements new ATM rules

India – SBI – Automated Deposit & Withdrawal Machine

India – toward cashless

Indonesia – financial literacy & financial inclusion

Japan’s cashless vision is starting to come to fruition

Jordan – cash usage

Scottish medieval coin ‘lost’ and found in Norfolk declared treasure

Snapshot spectral imaging with parallel metasystems

Spain – counterfeit currency

UAE – toward cashless

UK – the digital future for small-value payments

UK – Million-pound scheme launched to help improve access to cash

UK – National Audit Office – the production & distribution of cash

UK – National Audit Office – the production & distribution of cash, report

UK – the death of the 2p? Royal Mint will not make any more 2p or £2 coins for the next decade as public spending watchdog reveals £50 billion of banknotes have ‘gone missing’

UK – Royal Mint to stop production of £2 & 2p coins due to excess stock

US – A $10,000 Bill Sets $384,000 World Record at Heritage Auctions

US – decline of cash in the digital age, survey

US – Treasury probes claims of racial discrimination at US Mint

US/Georgia – toward cashless

September 14-20, 2020

Africa – toward cashless

Argentina – BCRA Museum Recovered Stolen Paper Money Sketches

ATMIA publishes global best practices for cash machine hygiene

Australia – cash use has plummeted but Australians are holding more of it than ever. Here is why we’re not going cashless.

Australia – mistake at the Royal Australian Mint in 2000 could mean your $1 coin is worth thousands

Bank Notes & Shinplasters – The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic, Joshua Greenberg, University of Pennsylvania Press 2020

Brazil – new banknote

Cashless future comes with risks

Cashless payment is booming, thanks to coronavirus. So is financial surveillance

Cashtech – on the best coin counting machines

CCL Secure launches new polymer recycling plant in Mexico

Chuck E. Cheese’s Strange Currencies Come up in Bankruptcy Court

Could living in a cashless world put you in debt

Crane Currency in the Philippines

DeLaRue – currency thought leadership

Ethiopia – new banknotes

Fifteen extraordinary banknotes you wouldn’t want to part with for any amount of money

G4S rejects L2.95 billion offer from Canadian security firm GardaWorld

G4S says Garda approach doesn’t reflect prospects for growth

Germany – owning a Bitcoin ATM is about to get a lot harder

India – water ATMs

Italy – toward cashless

KAL on ATM security

Kurz Threads for Kinegrams

Louisenthal substrates: a scalable portfolio combining security, durability & sustainability

Mastercard & the war on cash

Money tells the history of currency – with some digressions

Nigeria – financial inclusion

Planet Money – should we kill the US$100 bill

Planet Money – the birth of the greenback

Sweden’s cashless future reveals a whole world of hidden risks

Tanzania – financial inclusion

The case for cash

The global financial sector is transforming due to Covid-19: Infiniti decodes the impact on ATM managed services & retail banks

Uganda – electronic money & financial inclusion

Uganda – toward cashless

UK – Cash use making a comeback following lockdown dip

UK – Finance watchdog to step in to protect access to cash

US – the 1943 steel penny

US – a look at Series 1896 $2 silver certificate

US – Coin Task Force publishes new resources to address coin circulation issues

US – share of cashless businesses compared to Covid-19 cases

US – Treasury OIG report finds US Mint practices ‘deficient’

US/Minnesota – CBP seizes $3.6 million of counterfeit currency

Who gets hurt when the world stops using cash

September 7-13, 2020

Africa – toward cashless?

Ancient Roman Coins of the Muses

Angola – new notes

Artificial intelligence keeps HSBC ATMs stocked with cash

Australia – COVID killing credit cards & cheques as cash hangs on

Australia – cash is king

Bangladesh – toward cashless

Bangladesh – Hacking alert: Banks limit ATMs, cards & online transactions to avoid risks

Brazilians Are Worried by Their Newest & Biggest Banknote

Brazil – Blind Association criticizes new R$200 banknote size equal to R$20 bill

Cash & disease transmission

CCL previews new banknote security feature with a Charlie Chaplin note

How & Why Gold Became the Most Important Metal for Coins

How do cardless ATMs work

India – 4 counterfeiters arrested in Delhi

Malawi – counterfeiter arrested

Malaysia – what to do when your banknotes are damaged

Money from bank hacks rarely gets laundered through cryptocurrencies

NIST – use of optic fibre may promise new banknote security techniques

UK- Will coronavirus accelerate the move towards a cashless economy?

US – $20 Bill Changes Since 1976

US – 1794 silver dollar sold for $10 million in 2013. Now the “Flowing Hair” coin is up for auction again

Visa – cash is dirty, especially in pandemic times

September 1-6, 2020

Ancient Roman IOUs found beneath Bloomberg’s new London HQ

Are Bitcoin ATMs an anomaly or just an aberration?

Australia – RBA & cash services

Brazil – new note

Cambodia – public OK with removal of low denomination banknotes

Canada – is Covid killing cash?

Canada – hoarding of $100s linked to tax avoidance

CCL launches a revolutionary product for banknote security using Rolling Optics’ technology

Coronavirus panic fuels a surge in cash demand

For sale: one of the first & most valuable dollars in US history

India – SBI introduces new facility for ATM users. New feature explained

Indonesian central bank says the new 75,000 rupiah banknote is legal tender

New technology outsmarts ATM attackers

Nigeria – financial inclusion

Perativ – webinar – Retail Banks: Rethink the Costs of your Cash Distribution Network, 9/17/2020

Philippines – boosting electronic payments

Philippines – toward cashless

These are the 4 best ways to turn coins into cash

Tunisia – new banknote

Turkey – financial inclusion

UK – Historic Royal Palaces podcast, 8/12/2020, 13^th century coinage & the expulsion of the Jews

UK – the shops that don’t want your money if you pay in cash

US – Customers should have right to pay retailers with cash, Consumer Coalition Urges

US – history of the Bureau of Engraving & Printing

US – restaurants, cash or card

US – the coin shortage & the cashless society

Zambia – financial inclusion