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Francis Tuffy

31 Jan. 2023

2 min read

Optical & Digital Document Security Hits the Phygital Nerve

Registration for the second Optical and Digital Document Security™ conference is now open, with a programme that demonstrates the importance of this event in bringing together people involved in developing digital systems for identity and financial transactions with the more traditional security document community.

Events

John Winchcombe

31 Jan. 2023

3 min read

Cash Works… But It Could Work Even Better!

Cash Works… But It Could Work Even Better! This is the title of the Koenig & Bauer Banknote Solutions white paper on cash innovation & sustainability.

Cash in Circulation Cash Usage

John Winchcombe

31 Jan. 2023

5 min read

CBDC Round-Up

SICPA has entered into a strategic partnership with the INX Digital Company with the aim of helping governments develop innovative and sovereign Central Bank Digital Currency ecosystems.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

31 Jan. 2023

4 min read

Universal Access to Payments Required

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has created an open access database of data relating to retail payment for 95 countries from September 2019 to June 2022.

Cash in Circulation Surveys

John Winchcombe

31 Jan. 2023

5 min read

News in Brief

The Fraunhofer Institute has been working on a project known as BASIC since January 2020, which aims to strengthen the resilience of the cash supply infrastructure in the event of an emergency or crisis.

News

John Winchcombe

31 Jan. 2023

5 min read

Increasing CBDC Monetary Policy Impact

An important CBDC topic is its impact on a central bank’s ability to implement monetary policy. A technical paper by the BIS examines the possible impact of paying interest on CBDCs, or enabling CBDCs to compete with other payment methods in terms of convenience.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

31 Jan. 2023

4 min read

When is Money Real? When It Hurts to Spent It

The Dutch National Bank has issued a working paper considering the implications of moving to non-cash payment methods, if any.

Cash Usage Future of Cash

John Winchcombe

28 Dec. 2022

5 min read

MAS Investigates Retail CBDCs

Until now the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has concentrated on wholesale Central Bank Digital Currencies (wCBDC), which are used with financial institutions.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

28 Dec. 2022

2 min read

The Power of Cash

Two MBA students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wanted to give a percentage of their income in cash to impoverished people. They had studied the impact of government schemes in Mexico and Brazil and the results led them to want to take the same approach.

Cash Usage Free Free

John Winchcombe

28 Dec. 2022

6 min read

Bank of England Reports Cash Recovery

The Bank of England published in its quarterly bulleting an update on cash. The headlines were that cash has made a partial recovery.

Cash Usage Central Banks COVID

John Winchcombe

21 Dec. 2022

5 min read

UK Retailers Demand Intervention as Payments Shift to Cards

The British Retail Consortium has just published its 2021 survey of its members who account for 36% of total UK sales from 25,000 shops. While card usage soared, so has the cost of card payments, prompting the BRC to demand emergency intervention by the government to prevent price gouging by the card companies.

Cards Surveys

John Winchcombe

21 Dec. 2022

5 min read

CBDC Round-Up

The Swiss Innovation Hub of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has started project Tourbillon, which will explore how to improve cyber resiliency, scalability and privacy.

CBDC

John Winchcombe

21 Dec. 2022

3 min read

How Ukraine is Managing Cash in a War

The National Bank of Ukraine has maintained the supply of cash and cash circulation to over 1,500 bank branches and more than 3,800 ATMs across the country since Russia invaded in February 2022. The Deputy Governor, Oleksii Shaban, has shared their experience.

Country Profile

John Winchcombe

21 Dec. 2022

5 min read

The Impact of a Move to Mobile Payments

Does paying with mobile digital payments increase consumers’ marginal propensity to consume? If there is to be an increase in the use of mobile payments this has implications for consumers, merchants and governments. A paper from Claremont Graduate University sets out to answer this.

Digital Payments

John Winchcombe

21 Dec. 2022

5 min read

News in Brief

The EU is introducing a new maximum limit of €10,000 on cash payments as part of a programme to stop money laundering. Individual countries are free to set their own lower limit.

News

John Winchcombe

21 Dec. 2022

3 min read

Sustainability Thoughts from the Payment Industry

A recent article on the Raconteur website looked at what the payment industry is doing on decarbonisation. It is worth having a look at what others are doing, particularly since cash is sometimes looked at in the frame of payments generally.

Sustainability

John Winchcombe

21 Dec. 2022

5 min read

Reflections on Cash

An article by Tristan Dissaux - ‘The Social Role of Money in an Age of Digitalisation' - pulls together much of the debate and thinking around the payment tension created by digitisation. As we end 2022, it is a good time to reflect on this.

Cash Usage Future of Cash

John Winchcombe

21 Dec. 2022

5 min read

Payment News

The settlement of a class action lawsuit against Visa and Mastercard in Canada has allowed retailers to pass on credit card fees to their customers.

News

John Winchcombe

6 Dec. 2022

3 min read

Cash Use in Europe

Italy’s new government intends to scrap the requirement to accept electronic settlements for purchases below €30 and to raise it to €60, according to a draft of its 2023 budget recently approved by the cabinet.

Cash Usage

John Winchcombe

6 Dec. 2022

6 min read

Tackling the Cash Management Challenge

One of the sessions at the Cash & Payments Sustainability Forum™ addressed today’s cash management challenges, and featured presentations by Loomis, FedCash® Services, G+D and Koenig and Bauer Banknote Solutions.

Cash Management Events

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Optical & Digital Document Security Hits the Phygital Nerve

Cash Works… But It Could Work Even Better!

CBDC Round-Up

Universal Access to Payments Required

News in Brief

Increasing CBDC Monetary Policy Impact

When is Money Real? When It Hurts to Spent It

MAS Investigates Retail CBDCs

The Power of Cash

Bank of England Reports Cash Recovery

UK Retailers Demand Intervention as Payments Shift to Cards

CBDC Round-Up

How Ukraine is Managing Cash in a War

The Impact of a Move to Mobile Payments

News in Brief

Sustainability Thoughts from the Payment Industry

Reflections on Cash

Payment News

Cash Use in Europe

Tackling the Cash Management Challenge

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