Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – February 2020 Links
28 February, 2020
Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – February 2020
February 25 – 29 2020
Brink’s acquires majority of G4S cash operations for $860M
Cash Logistics Market to See Huge Growth by 2025: GardaWorld, Loomis, G4S ($)
DeLaRue – polymer notes in Scotland
DeLaRue – Turnaround and Trading Update
DeLaRue – working on a turnaround
Digital can never completely replace cash
Euro Banknotes Have Low Risk of Virus Contagion, Bundesbank Says
India – ATMs dispensing Rs500 rather than Rs2000 notes
Ireland – Survey finds shift from cash to its virtual equivalent now at tipping point
Mongolia – new note produced by Crane
UK – Rare Jersey banknotes fetch £24,500
UK – Tesco opens cashless store in central London
US – February 26, 1862, Legal Tender Act signed by President Lincoln
US – 1776 Continental dollar bought at flea market for 56 cents worth nearly $100G
US/Florida – 22 Spanish silver coins from 1715 shipwreck unearthed on Indian River County beach
Wave of Consolidation in the Cash Management Industry
Why we should resist the rush to a cashless society
February 16 – 24 2020
Aruba – Crane Currency & banknotes
Australia – new $100 & the visually impaired
Bangladesh – financial inclusion via simplified account opening
Canadian police smash counterfeit currency network that flooded Surrey with bogus US dollar bills
China will start destroying cash collected in areas with high exposure to the coronavirus
Ecuador – ACI & Banco Internacional drive ATM innovation
Greece – counterfeiter arrests
India is Going Cashless at a Rapid Pace
India – RBI plan for financial inclusion
India – Why print ?1 currency notes when it defies all logic?
Indian Bank ATMs to go user-friendly, vend more Rs 200 notes
Indonesia – financial inclusion
Japan – 2 banks suffer all-day ATM network outage
Kazakhstan – cashless payments
New Zealand – RBNZ – public wants the right to use cash
Nigeria – recycling of bad naira notes
Philippines – financial inclusion
South Africa – Mint gets new director
South Africa – The Case for a Digital Alternative to Cash
Tunisia – withdrawing 50 dinar note
UK – A history of the £20 note and its famous faces, from Shakespeare to Turner
UK – cash system will collapse without new laws
UK – community access to cash pilot scheme launched
UK – finance industry to help communities with access to cash
UK – ‘King Charles’ to be printed on new British banknotes ‘immediately’ after Queen dies
US – Mint coin production in January 2020
US/California – Sacramento’s absurd crusade against cashless retail
Venezuela – new notes to be printed by a Russian firm
Venezuela – most people using currency to survive
What to expect in a cash-free future
Why does Warren Buffett always pay with cash?
Zimbabwe – ‘The economy is redollarising, not de-dollarising’
February 6 – 15 2020
Australia to ban cash payments over AU$10,000 in the name of thwarting crime
Australia – RBA will facilitate the redemption of notes damaged in bushfires
Australia – NPA currency services
Bangladesh – 9% cap will hurt the financial inclusion agenda
Banks embrace cash recycling, ITMs to enhance branch ops
Canada – in love with cashless payments: 23 top findings
Cash transactions are private, which is why mobsters use them
Cashless shopping may be here … but a cashless society? Nah!
CCL Industries acquires Rheinfelden Americas, LLC
Crane Payment acquires currency-handling firm Cummins Allison
Currency notes can be super spreader of novel Coronavirus 2019
DeLaRue – lenders turn screw on ailing banknote printer
‘Death of the wallet’ as consumers stop carrying cash
G&D – Galaxy – A New Dimension of Security and Design
Ghana – mobile money & financial inclusion
Guatemala – financial inclusion strategy
India – ATM operators seek higher fees on ATM withdrawals
India – Cashless economy impossible in India, admits Paytm founder Vijay Sekhar Sharma
India – Demand for cash: an econometric model of currency demand, paper
India – is the government thinking about banning the Rs2000 note?
India – mother of Indian microfinance passes away
India – Pakistan-made counterfeit Rs 2,000 notes nailed 7 out of 9 security features
India – Pakistan-made counterfeits being smuggled in through Nepal
India – why isn’t it using polymer substrate notes?
Ireland – cash is no longer king
Javelin, health of cash study, 2020
Major innovations & challenges impact ATM business
New imaging technology could detect counterfeit currency
New Zealand – penny dropping on benefits and risks of a cashless society
Nigeria – ATM count on the decline due to shift to mobile payments
Nigeria – CBN to end open-air burning of naira notes; adopts recycling
Nigeria: 100 Tonnes of Mutilated Naira Notes Destroyed Weekly
Nigeria – financial inclusion & the banking industry
Philippines – ATMs being deployed in 7-11s
St Lucia – cashless system on buses a priority after an armed robbery
Tanzania – financial inclusion
UK – ¼ of all UK cash machines now charge fees
UK – commemorative coins with dinosaurs
UK consumers bearing the cost of cash machine fee hikes
UK firms could ditch ‘petty cash’ as use of plastic soars
UK – Link launches ATMs after community requests
UK – Remainer sabotages Brexit 50p coins and declares ‘battle has begun’ with Leave voters
UK – what to do with a mangled £20 note
US – examining the cashless backlash
US – looking back on the Sacagawea dollar 20 years later
US – nickels still cost more than 5c to produce & ship
US/California – on banning cashless retail
US/DC – on banning cashless retail
US/DC – NAMA urges micro market exemption from DC cashless retail ban
US/Florida – pizza dispensing ATM
US/Georgia – Bitcoin ATMs start to spread & to draw scrutiny
US/Michigan – counterfeit $100s
Visa and PayPal Show the War on Cash Is Far From Over
What does the decline in ATM withdrawals mean for cash?
Why are businesses starting to not accept cash payments?
You should always keep a $100 bill in your wallet, a psychologist says. Here’s why experts agree
February 1 – 5 2020
Abu Dhabi – coins of Islam, exhibit
Can cashless societies ever be truly inclusive?
Canada – BoC public consultation on the $5
Cash may not be king but it is still royalty
Clumsy solutions for a cashless society
Counterfeit Coin Detection Market 2020 Technology Advancement and Future Scope ($)
DeLaRue – why is it running out of cash
Europe – EU considers phasing out smallest denomination coin
Future of Cash, Madrid, Spain, 21-22 April 2020
German Banks Are Hoarding So Many Euros They Need More Vaults
Giving ATMs next-gen upgrades for security, cardless functionality and more
How Cashless Restaurants Reinforce Systemic Racism
India – cashless ATMs due to a bank workers strike
India – CBDT cuts per day cash limit for payments
India – counterfeits in Uttar Pradesh
India – financial inclusion in rural areas
Indonesia – financial inclusion
Ireland – banks plan to sell off 1000 of their ATMs
Is cash still king? Reviewing the rise of mobile payments
Japan – cashless payment at the post office
Japan consumers to continue cashless payments when rebate program ends: survey
Nigeria – Banking hall queues return over ATM withdrawal limits
Safes getting ‘smarter’ in battle against cash skimming
Scotland – Mary Somerville on the RBS £10 note
South Korea – counterfeit stats
The mystery of quipus—Incan knot records
3 steps to sorting money effectively
UK – Brexit commemorative coin sparks Oxford comma debate
UK – metal detectorists find cash of Iron Age coins worth L10 million
UK – Royal Mint forges £5,000 coin that’s as big as a dinner plate
UK – the first ATMs in the world
Uzbekistan – Fraudster detained in Namangan after he tried to sell US$1 million banknote
Zimbabwe: Unrestrained Money Supply Growth Sinking Zim Dollar