Upcoming Event Summary
Asia Cash Cycle Seminar (ICCOS)
The seminar takes place 11-13 September in Bangkok, co-hosted by the Bank of Thailand. It starts with a summit for central banks. Part of the summit will see the Federal Reserve Board presenting its Cash Program, its structure, objectives and roadmap, its public engagement strategy and future planning initiatives.
The Asian Cash Management Association (ACMA) will run a workshop on strategies to ensure a safe and inclusive payments landscape before holding its Annual General Meeting.
All that leads into a busy programme starting with global trends in cash and payments and then moving on to current key topics – cash and contingency, ATM evolution, inclusive payments, the efficient cash cycle, commercially sustainable sustainability in the cash cycle and more.
There will also be innovation sessions from Brinks, G+D, RMA Group, Dormakaba, Sargent and Greenleaf and CTG.
Count Down to the CBDC Conference
At the CBDC Conference in Istanbul, 12-14 September, more than 60 speakers will present on CBDCs from different perspectives. There will be speakers from 23 central banks and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) covering retail and wholesale CBDCs.
The Bahamas, Nigeria and Jamaica will share their experience of their live CBDC projectss along with the Centre Head of the Bank for International Settlements – Innovation Hub Hong Kong, who will moderate a workshop discussing various CBDC project implemented by the BIS.
Central Banks from Canada, Chile, England, Ghana, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, South African, Sweden, Thailand and Zambia will update the conference on different aspects of their CBDC pilots and projects.
The Bundesbank and the Banque de France will discuss wholesale CBDCs and cross-border payments using CBDC.
Presentations from the IMF and Oxford University, Loughborough University and University of Würzburg will discuss the potential impact of CBDCs on the macro-economy and the financial system.
Experts from technology providers like AWS, Bitt, Emtech, G+D, Idemia, nChain, Orell Füssli Security Printing, Trustnoted, R3, Ripple and UDPN will present the latest innovations.
Europe & Emerging Markets ATM & Cash Summit 2023
ATMIA has put together an interesting agenda for its Dublin summit, 18-19 October 2023. Much of the agenda addresses ‘future of cash’ topics starting with the Dutch National Bank looking at its approach to sustaining access to cash and Geldmaat explaining the ATM pooling arrangement. Bankomat also talks about the role of cash in a cashless society in this session.
On the second day the summit returns to this topic with the European Central Bank outlining its 2030 cash strategy and LINK explaining the UK’s work on access to cash and cash acceptance. The status of the legal tender status of cash and a possible future Digital Euro will be reviewed.
The Bank of Ghana will talk about ATMs, Cash and Central Bank Digital Currencies and Fidelity Bank will give a commercial view of ATMs and the market in Ghana.
The ATM specific topics consider shared banking (Diebold Nixdorf), the changing face of ATM channel management and ownership (Brinks), an ATM insurance overview, how ATM attacks in France were significantly reduced, a review of hot trends concerning ATMs and proof of concept work on the next generation of ATMs.
Strong Programme for Future of Cash Conference
Istanbul is the host city for this year’s Future of Cash conference on 6-8 November 2023. The programme has now been published.
The conference starts with a research seminar considering whether cash is a public good and a basic right, key questions when evaluating the relative role and importance of cash.
The first main day starts with the central banks of Turkey, the US and Europe considering cash at a crossroads, this leads into a session exploring demand drivers for cash and the ‘cash paradox’ and finishes with looking at the cash cycle in a digital world. An additional session includes nine round table discussions which include how to fund cash, access and acceptance, the environment, innovation, crisis etc.
On the second day two sessions deal with key challenges – how to redesign the cash cycle and how to design in resilience to the cash cycle. There are then two workshops. The first looks at how to create a cash narrative to defeat cashless propaganda. The second looks at how to boost innovation in the cash cycle. The conference ends with innovation awards across three CashTech categories, the best CashTech solution, the best CashTech innovator (open to companies started since 2016) and the best CashTech start-up (companies founded since 2020).
The speaker list mixes central banks, mints, commercial banks, cash in transit companies, CashTech companies and academics to give a broad spectrum of expertise and interests.
Optical and Digital Document Security Conference 2024: Call for papers
The Optical and Digital Document Security conference will take place in April next year in Lisbon, Portugal. ODDS brings together the secured document community and the digital identity and transactions community.
The organisers invite those involved in the digital transaction, identity and authentication communities or the physical secured document field, whether commercially, in academia or government, to use ODDS explain and share their work by submitting paper proposals.
The deadline for submission is 31 October 2023.
Currency Research Announces ‘The Central Bank AI Conference’
Next year Currency Research has announced its Digital Currency Conference will be in London 23/24September 2024. It has now revealed that it will run an Artificial Intelligence (AI) conference 25/26 September in the same venue.
This new conference will explore the impact of AI from a central bank and regulator perspective.
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