Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – August-September 2015 Links
11 September, 2015
Counting On Currency’s Cash Per Diem – August-September 2015 Links
September 7 – 12 2015
Applied DNA Sciences’ contribution to the conviction rate of cash thieves
Australia – Commonwealth Bank outage affects ATM network & online banking
Australia – update on the legal side of the Securency case
Brookings – podcast – measuring progress on financial & digital inclusion
Bulgaria – cache of Roman coins discovered
Cash Handling Journal – new cash communities worldwide
DeLaRue launches new desktop currency sorter
Dunbar acquires Titan Armored & Courier
India – consumers addicted to cash
India – Gujarat State has the greatest incidence of counterfeits
India – increase in high-tech ATMs anticipated in the next few years
Islamic State’s gold coins will not replace the global banking system
Malaysia – ecommerce adoption – grocery SME study
Mastercard – global study of new ways to pay
Netherlands – E200,000 in counterfeit euros
Nigeria – POS growth is lethargic
Nigeria – what are the real costs of CBN’s restrictions on how people spend money?
Pakistan – central bank announces demonitization of old-style banknotes in late-2016
Paper – can Bitcoin become a global currency?
Paper – remittance & migration prospects for the 21st century
Patent – IBM – implementing a single sign-on in a transaction system
Patent – Magtek – tamper-resistant 3D magnetic stripe reader integrated circuit
Patent – RBC – mobile payment security
Patent – Wincor Nixdorf – device for stacking banknotes
Paymenteye – do ATMs have a future in payments?
Qatar – retailers hit by coin shortages
Scotland – RBS to print next-generation of banknotes on polymer substrate
UAE – fragmentation challenges mobile payments
Uganda – Sh100,000 notes are counterfeit
UK – evolution of Queen Elizabeth II on banknotes
UK – Natwest customers hit with another ATM glitch
UK – washing stolen cash in an attempt to remove SmartWater taggant
UK – will ApplePay bring cash to an end?
USA Technologies & cashless vending
US/New York – man uses counterfeit $100s to post bond
World Payments Guide – website link
Zimbabwe – local firms prefer the rand to the dollar
Zimbabwe – on the redemption of the old Z dollars
September 1 – 6 2015
Armor Safe Technologies & smart safe developments
Australia – RBA paper – the life of Australian banknotes
Book recommendation – making money – coin, currency & the creation of capitalism (video)
Canada – cutting banknotes in half in Quebec’s Gaspe region
Canada – Royal Mint invites citizen voting on 2017 coin designs
China – Japan-ATM firm to monitor 12,500 ATMs for China Minsheng Bank
Colombia – millions in counterfeit euros, dollars & pesos seized in Bogota raid
Estonia – fighting counterfeit notes & coins
Germany – ATM fees for non-customers
How did gold-colored rock become so valuable, video
India – fighting counterfeits with new banknote features
India – new numbering system on high-denomination notes
India – will the focus on financial inclusion pay-off?
KrebsonSecurity – new ATM skimming issues
Mozambique – mobile banking & financial inclusion
Netherlands – on complaints regarding joint cash processing & transportation services
New Zealand – new banknote designs
Nigeria – on the cashless policy
Norway – 1914 2 kroner coin – the most beautiful coin of the 20th century
Paper – stateless currency crisis
Patent – Grove – coin identification system using image processing
Patent – Mastercard – transaction authorisation method & system
Patent – Talaris – transaction processing system including cash automation machine
South Korea – minting agency is diversifying its business
Thailand – French national busted with counterfeit euros
UK – Bank of England – framework for testing automatic banknote handling machines
UK – Bank of England speech – working together to deliver banknotes for the modern economy
UK – BBC video – would you wear a contactless payments jacket?
UK – Cambridge University displays 500 year-old Chinese banknote with mulberry bark based substrate
UK – conversion to plastic substrate may cost UK businesses as much as L240m
UK – how often do UK banknotes change hands?
UK – new L20 note will be on polymer substrate
UK – toward polymer substrate for all notes, a report
UK – coin to commemorate Elizabeth II’s 63 years as Queen
UK – is abolishing cash really plausible?
US – 15 microprints hiding in US currency
US – would you pay $10 for a sleep-mask full of shredded money?
US/New York – first US ATM was installed by Chemical Bank on Long Island 46 years ago this month
US/Virginia – counterfeiting in 1859
August 24 – 31 2015
Australia – RBA predicts a slide in the number of ATMs
BBC – the truth about the death of cash
Brookings – report – 2015 financial & digital inclusion report
Can smartphones solve ATM skimming?
Canada – BC banknote security firm raises $2.6m
Chromatography Today – on money
Currency News – DNB’s app for euro authentication
Euronet ATM services in Brunei
FIS – report – global consumer banking report 2015
Germany – introduces a polymer E5 coin
Ghana – mobile money needs a forensic audit
Huffington Post – putting a woman on the US$10
India – RBI statistics show counterfeiting is on the rise
India – RBI withdraws 25% compensation scheme for banks finding counterfeits
India – robbers attempt to break into ATM with gas cutter, & burn up the money inside
India – technical issues hinder the trial of polymer substrate banknotes
Ireland – a banknote & the lovelorn
Is cash just another barbarous relic?
ISIS plan to replace the dollar as the world’s currency with gold
Kenya – Safaricom upgrading M-Pesa functionality
Korea – the evolution of the currency over 1000 years
Morocco – Algerian caught with counterfeit euros
Nigeria – cardless ATMs at Diamond Bank
Nigeria – toward more e-payments
OliverWyman – report – rebooting financial services
Pakistan – modernizing currency management in banks
Pakistan – SBP faces calls for abandoning the Rs5000 banknote in favor of a coin
Required reading – book – Making Money – coin, currency & the coming of capitalism
Sage – report – how to prepare for cashless payments
Sage – report – payments landscape report 2015
UAE – 5 Europeans arrested in ATM skimming case
UK – 2015, the year of cashless payments, mainly as a PR event
UK – artist is turning English banknotes into Scottish money
UK – bank where one of Britain’s biggest cash robberies occurred is up for sale
US – 1794 silver dollar could sell for $5m at auction
US – banks are getting rich out of ATM fees
US – BEP printed $20.8b in notes in June 2015
US – BEP production in July 2015
US/California – toward cashless on SF mass transit
US/Florida – $228k in counterfeits seized at Miami International Airport
US/New York – toward cashless payments in NYC
Wincor Nixdorf – on ATM security
