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John Winchcombe

2 Oct. 2022

5 min read

CBDC Round-Up

Working paper 2713 from the ECB suggests policy interest in retail CBDCs has been driven by the decline in cash use and the rapid increase in digital payment types and use, challenging the status quo.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

2 Oct. 2022

5 min read

Payment News

Morning Consult has written an article challenging whether banks should redefine the terms ‘unbanked’ and ‘underbanked’. The article argues that banks should focus on customers’ specific needs if they want to draw more people into financial services.

News

John Winchcombe

2 Oct. 2022

3 min read

The Difficulties in Identifying the Cost of Payments

The Future of Cash conference had a special seminar dedicated to the cost of payments with presentations by the US Federal Reserve, SNB, Bundesbank, ECB and Tobias Truetsch from the University of St Gallen.

Data Analytics Free Free

Paul Blond

2 Oct. 2022

6 min read

The Journey Towards a Less Cash Australia

Despite headline currency in circulation at near record levels, substantially less cash is being used in Australia.

Cash Usage Country Profile

John Winchcombe

29 Aug. 2022

5 min read

News in Brief

In Australia, Armaguard Group has reached agreement to merge Prosegur Australia into their business. The merger will include cash in transit, technical services and ATM networks within Australia.

News

John Winchcombe

29 Aug. 2022

4 min read

Owner of G4S Publishes First ESG Report

Allied Universal is a security and facility services company. It has just published its 2021 Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) report, its first ever. This lays out its strategy, targets and progress across all ESG areas.

Sustainability

John Winchcombe

29 Aug. 2022

7 min read

Ensuring Payment Choice in the Euro Area

The European Central Bank (ECB) has published an article discussing access to cash in the euro area. It examines the challenges of distance, capacity and public perception and different approaches to modelling them.

Cash Management Central Banks

John Winchcombe

29 Aug. 2022

4 min read

Turkey: The Role of Financial Literacy as a Driver of Cash Demand

The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey has used its October 2020 Methods of Payment Survey (MPS) to explore the role of financial literacy as a driver of cash usage.

Country Profile Free Free

John Winchcombe

29 Aug. 2022

3 min read

Thinking CashTech for the Future of Cash

CashTech gathers companies which leverage software and communications technology to provide improved cash services as well as to enhance the efficiency of the cash cycle.

Events Future of Cash

John Winchcombe

31 July 2022

7 min read

Lessons from Incentives Encouraging Digital Payments

The World Bank’s Financial Inclusion Global Initiative (FIGI) has issued a paper investigating Incentives for Electronic Payment Acceptance (EPA). The report was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Data Analytics Digital Payments

John Winchcombe

31 July 2022

3 min read

Why Cash Automation Makes Sense

Diebold Nixdorf recently presented a webinar on the benefits and logic of cash automation and how to do cash recycling well.

Cash Management

John Winchcombe

31 July 2022

5 min read

CBDC Updates

Taiwan has said that it has completed trials of its prototype retail CBDC in technical simulations. This was concluded three months early. Electronic payments have risen from 40% in 2017 to 60% in the first quarter of 2022.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

31 July 2022

5 min read

News in Brief

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued a report on India’s payment system. Part of that report benchmarks India against 21 countries.

News

John Winchcombe

31 July 2022

6 min read

New Report on The Importance of Cash in a Crisis

Professors Gerhard Rösl and Franz Seitz have written a paper in which they compare the handling of the 1929 depression, the 2008/9 recession, India’s demonetisation exercise and Greece’s experience in their sovereign debt crisis and financial challenges starting 2009 until today.

Cash Usage Staff Papers

John Winchcombe

31 July 2022

4 min read

Conference Updates

Updates on upcoming conferences including: CBDC Conference, Future of Cash Conference, The Silk Road Conference on Cash and Payments, The Coin Conference, and the Cash & Payments Sustainability Forum.

Events

John Winchcombe

31 July 2022

5 min read

Payment News

Mobile money systems, of which M-Pesa is the best known, are evolving to the detriment of the network of agents who handle their transactions, according to a recent article in The Economist magazine.

News

John Winchcombe

31 July 2022

2 min read

What is Important in Cash Management?

Auriga has won the ATMIA’s cost of cash contest for the best white paper on how to improve cash management and logistics.

Cash Management

John Winchcombe

31 July 2022

4 min read

ESG: In Need of a Clean Up

The Economist magazine issued a special report on Environment, Society and Governance (ESG) in its 23 July 2022 edition. It describes ESG as having had a ‘negligible impact on carbon emissions’.

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John Winchcombe

31 July 2022

4 min read

Understanding Changes to Access to Cash in Canada

The Bank of Canada has issued a Staff Discussion Paper that focuses on the retail side of the cash distribution system examining changes in cash accessibility as the result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Country Profile Staff Papers

John Winchcombe

31 July 2022

4 min read

Stablecoins – the Future of Money?

Schroders, a global asset management and wealth manager, has published a perspective piece, ‘Stablecoins: what they mean for the future of money’.

Digital CN

Latest News

CBDC Round-Up

Payment News

The Difficulties in Identifying the Cost of Payments

The Journey Towards a Less Cash Australia

News in Brief

Owner of G4S Publishes First ESG Report

Ensuring Payment Choice in the Euro Area

Turkey: The Role of Financial Literacy as a Driver of Cash Demand

Thinking CashTech for the Future of Cash

Lessons from Incentives Encouraging Digital Payments

Why Cash Automation Makes Sense

CBDC Updates

News in Brief

New Report on The Importance of Cash in a Crisis

Conference Updates

Payment News

What is Important in Cash Management?

ESG: In Need of a Clean Up

Understanding Changes to Access to Cash in Canada

Stablecoins – the Future of Money?

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