Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – March 2015 Links
31 March, 2015
Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – March 2015 Links
March 26 – 31 2015
Atlantic – the history of the ATM & banking automation
Australia & New Zealand – should they have a common currency?
Canada – Bank of Montreal’s ATM footprint
Cash Handling Journal – on the printing of euro banknotes, a video
Cummins Allison commentary on FDIC’s brick-&-mortar banking report
Cummins Allison – patent quality
Currency News – lessons learned from the introduction of the E5 & E10 notes
Europe – ECB book – the first euros
Federal Reserve Board – 2015 mobile payments survey
Forbes – the ludicrous idea of trying to abolish cash
Guyana – new passports to be made by Canadian Banknote
Highlights from our pecuniary past
Hungary – euro banknote designs with animals, skeletons show under UV light
India – on plastic substrate for currency
India – promoting electronic payments, discouraging cash
Indonesia – BI says rise in noncash payments may have reduce incidence of counterfeits
JDS Uniphase – business prospects
Kenya – M-Pesa is beating Bitcoin on the road to mobile money
Kyrgyzstan – government adopts cashless policy to reduce shadow economy
Largest gold mints in the world
Malaysia – collector pays Rm76,000 for an Rm100 note with the lucky serial number AA8888888
Mexico – problems with taking US dollar notes in Mexico
Mississippi Postal FCU turns ATMs over to Dolphin Debit to avoid compliance costs
Museum of American Finance – exhibit on the history of US currency
Museum of American Finance – exhibit on legal tender
NCR Silver POS expands in the franchise space
Nepal – Bulgarian arrested with fake ATM cards
Netherlands – cash is king because old habits die hard
Nigeria – Mastercard, small businesses & electronic payments
Pakistan – central bank directs financial institutions to stop recirculating old-style banknotes
Philippines – BSP says education is key to fighting counterfeit money
South Africa – cash use is growing
Tufts/Fletcher School – paper – the cost of cash in Mexico
UAE – central bank, ATMs & China UnionPay
UK – converter app that identifies banknotes for the blind
US – 1792 penny sells for $1.2m at auction
US – Americans continue to resist going to the dollar coin – video
US – David Vitter (R-La) on the dollar coin
US – Harriet Tubman could replace Andrew Jackson on the $20
US – how hard would it be to change the face on the $20?
US – Mint financial results FY2014
US – Mint – coin production stats for FY2014
US – the birth of the Morgan dollar
US/Maine – could Frances Perkins be a candidate for the $20
US/New York – SUNY Buffalo finds a cache of ancient Roman & Greek coins, in the library
Wincor Nixdorf in Saudi Arabia
WSJ – financial inclusion & banking for the poor
Zimbabwe – 50c bond coin to be introduced next week
Zimbabwe – mobile money & prostitution
99% invisible podcast – the color of money
March 19 – 25 2015
Australia – cashless card trial may help break a cycle of violence
Australia – the 13-year old who got the country’s banknotes sight-impaired-friendly
Australia – welfare payments start to go cashless
Authentication science – VTT has developed a new process for synthesis of nanoparticles
Bangladesh – 5 counterfeiters arrested in Dhaka
Bank of America – the trail of ATM & mobile-payment patents
BNY-Mellon – on the future of currency
Canada – daring thieves make off with an ATM in Saskatchewan
Cash Handling Journal – France limits cash payments to E1000
Cash Handling Journal – Germans love cash (survey)
CetoLogic & WashingtonFirst Bank
Chile – cash is king, but diminishing
China – counterfeiting crackdown
ECB – using Tetris to promote new banknote
Ethiopia – islamic banking & cashless payments
FT – currency transitions are surprisingly frequent around the world
Five countries with women on their banknotes
Future of money – interactive article
Global Safe & Vault Market report
Greece – data suggests Greeks are hoarding banknotes as a precautionary measure
Ireland – running short of 1 cent coins
Is cash slowly being made illegal?
Jamaica – man withdraws J$500,000 from a malfunctioning ATM & refuses to give the money back
Morocco – 9 arrested in attempt to sell fake US$1,000,000 bill
NCR in Belgium & the Netherlands
NCR & the Defense Commissary Agency
Nigeria – CBN official will not be prosecuted in banknote bribery case
Patent – NEC – authentication apparatus & prism member
Patent – PH Glatfelter Company – tamper evident documents & inks
Podcast series on payments & cash – around the coin – link
Romania – ancient gold coins & jewelry returned
Scotia Security Group – ATM cassette guard product
Scotland – Clydesdale Bank introduces first plastic substrate banknotes in the UK
South Africa – arrests for counterfeit R200 notes
Study – global banknote industry
Tanzania – Africa’s other m-money juggernaut
Ten countries already have women on their banknotes, not the US
UK – cash depot worker stole a few bills at a time, hiding them in chocolate bar wrappers
UK – Isaac Newton designed coronation medal for Queen Anne
UK – Kim Jong Un replaces the Queen on counterfeit banknotes
UK – new L1 coin is the most secure in the world
UK – teenager speechless on winning L1 coin design competition
UK – what animals can you find at the Bank of England – pictures
US – iBill technology translates banknote denominations for the blind
US – why the cash-only restaurant must die
US/Iowa – police use DNA to catch an ATM thief
US/New Jersey – ring from China tries to scam the US Mint with fake worn-out US coins
US/New York – $62,500 in counterfeit $100s seized at JFK
March 11 – 18 2015
Africa – slow progress toward B2C e-commerce
Asia – mobile payment readiness
Australia – cheques headed toward oblivion
Authentication science – tag valuables with artificial fingerprints
BMO/Harris Bank – cardless ATM
Brookings – on mobile connectivity in Africa
Canada – Royal Mint invites designs for 150th anniversary
Chile – how Chileans make payments (in spanish)
China – printing plates from a single painter involved in 90% of counterfeits
Czech Republic – banknotes in circulation, by denomination
Diebold & Phoenix Interactive Design
India – currency production problems
India – the security features on genuine notes
Indonesia – counterfeit investigation
Iran – new banknote drops nuclear symbol
Ireland – innovation awards include hologram for security
Ireland – toy E100 note used to pay for a sandwichin a c
Japan – bank introduces mobile ATM for use after disasters
Nigeria – move toward cashless can increase bank revenue & reduce bank costs
Patent – NEC – apparatus & prism member for authentication
Patent – Scan Coin AB – apparatus for flexible dispensing of coins in a coin handling system
Philippines – ATMs moving to a single switch
Portugal – intelligent vending & cashless payments
South Africa – an ATM bombing, on video
Swatch watches will include NFC capability
Uganda – is the move the mobile money mixed up with corruption?
UK – 1643 silver pound coin sells for L56,000 at auction
UK – Financial Inclusion Commission – 2015 report
UK – government pushing for smart ATMs with cash deposit capabilities
UK – incidence of drug contamination on UK banknotes
UK – payments on the cusp of change
US – inside West Point’s vault
US – Mint seeks input on coin compositions
US/New York – cashless tolling on a bridge leads to a $40m loss
US/Texas – largest US private coin collection expected to bring in $220m at auction
March 4 – 10 2015
Asia – TNS launches 4G ATM network support
BCG – the ups & downs of gold recycling
Better-Than-Cash-Alliance – Colombia, toward cashless
Better-Than-Cash-Alliance – post offices & cashless payments
Bolivia – where did the Spanish Empire’s silver come from?
Brookings – digital identities & financial inclusion
Canada – C$10,000 in cash found left on London Ontario store shelf
China – woman burns $20k in the oven after forgetting they were hidden there
Cummins Allison in Canadian grocery stores
Diebold – anti-skimming technology
Europe – are new E20 notes counterfeit-proof?
Glory – blog – retail cash chain
How will we buy things when we live in space?
IMF – does automation, including ATMs, affect job growth?
India – fake currency operation in Kolkata
Iraq withdrawing 50 dinar note from circulation
Kyrgystan – cashless policy to reduce the shadow economy
Mercator – tellers & self-service kiosks
Nanotech Security – IVQ 2014 revenues
NCR – airline & airport kiosk solutions
Nigeria – bank verification numbers (BVN) & CBN’s cashless policy
Nigeria – only 1 in 5 Nigerians have a bank account
Pakistan – on ATM card issuance
PaymentsSource – $10 monthly ATM fee might be a good idea
South Africa – large cache of counterfeits
South Korea – magnetic-strip, non-EMV cards will no longer work in ATMs
Tomorrow’s Transactions blog – David Birch on the perils of cash
Tonga & the Cook Islands – new coins
UK – five things that changed the way Britons banked
UK – is Britain passing a tipping point toward cashless payments?
UK – parking meters go to cards
UK – Royal Mint visitors center in Wales
UK – street performers could go to cashless payments
UK – Verifone study – British shoppers warming to new payments technologies
US – 10 US currency concept designs
US – against the continual minting of dollar coins
US – coin hoarding in 2008 as a precautionary measure by consumers during the financial crisis
US – group advocating the introduction of women on US currency
US – inside the campaign to replace Andrew Jackson with a woman on the US$20
US – Mint coin production through February 2015
US – public only mildly interested in paying by cell phone – survey
US – Smithsonian – new exhibit on the history of money
US/Florida – 2 arrested with $30k in counterfeits at a mall
US/New Jersey – jurors convict man for one of the largest ATM skimming schemes of recent memory
US/New York – counterfeits & the hot potato principle
Zimbabwe – Mastercard, remittances & mobile money
