Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – December 2015-January 2016 Links
04 January, 2016
Counting On Currency’s
December 2015-January 2016 Links
December 31 – January 8 2016
Australia – is the 5c coin doomed
Banning cash is a scary & faulty concept
Canada – a local currency in Quebec that involves cutting Bank of Canada notes in half
Chile – paper – barriers to adoption of financial technology
China – large seizure of counterfeits
Coindrum & loose change in airports
Germany – supermarket chain to accept deutschmark coins again
India – making transactions with the government cashless
India – reaches 1 billion mobile phone subscribers
India – RBI tells banks to replace defective Rs1000 notes
India – report – report on financial inclusion, December 2015
Isaac Newton, master of the Royal Mint
Kenya – cross-border M-Pesa transactions
Nigeria – cashless policy adoption & the global underworld
Philippines – Bulgarian arrested in ATM fraud
Singapore – counterfeit casino chips
UK – Shakespeare, Great Fire of London, Battle of Hastings on 2016 British coins
US – former Mint director says it is time to kill the penny
December 20 – 31 2015
Authentication science – technique of printing one image behind another
Canada – BC-based nanotech company poised to take on counterfeiters
Cato Institute – on the war against cash
DeLaRue – cash remains “king” in most of the world
Ernst & Young – fintech adoption index
Forbes – history of the gold standard
Germany – citizens still hoarding old banknotes & coins
How the US dollar spread across the world – video
India – cash & prepaid cards are a security threat
India – cash chest system on railways dates back to the colonial era
India – could blockchain technology help fight check fraud
Indonesia – banks integrate ATM networks
Ireland – 1985 coin design blunder
Ireland – central bank replaces E11 million in damaged banknotes
Kenya – on M-Pesa & virtual currency
Malaysia – ATM cards issued by Nigerian banks banned from domestic use
Pakistan – SBP launches public banknote identification campaign
Patent – Christmas – intuitive interactive video teller machine
PayPal – inside the command center
Peru – digital banking & financial inclusion
Philippines – demonitizing old style notes
Report – global banknote printing machine sales
Russia – Crimea banknote designed to irritate Ukraine
Tanzania – Interswitch Group launch
US – BEP’s collection of old & rare stamps
US – Santa Claus on a banknote, 1853
US/California – SF Westin hotel washes its coins
US/New York – 2 Chase bankers charged with forging ATM cards
WSJ – following the migrant money trail
Zimbabwe – RBZ to import more bond coins
Zimbabwe – shifting from the dollar to the yuan?
