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John Winchcombe

28 Jan. 2025

5 min read

NatWest Leads Brainstorm for a Response to Changing Cash

The use of coin dates back over 2,500 years, and in an industry that old, it can be difficult to do anything genuinely ‘new’. Hence the excitement when NatWest hosted what’s believed to be the first ever cash hackathon at their London HQ in late November, with attendees from a range of industries, to innovate on future payment methods, and reimagine the future of cash.

Free Future of Cash Free

John Winchcombe

28 Jan. 2025

5 min read

Asia’s Currency Trends

As the global payments landscape evolves, Asia’s currency trends offer invaluable insights into the future of cash and digital payments. This analysis by De La Rue’s Richard Sokl, who also spoke about this at the HSP Asia conference, considers the dynamics of cash’s enduring role, the challenges posed by the digital divide, and how currency strategies are adapting to meet diverse needs.

Cash Usage

David Fagleman

28 Jan. 2025

5 min read

Introducing the Universal Access to Payments Index

The first quarter of the 21st century has witnessed a major change in payments across the world. Many payments traditionally made in cash have been replaced by frictionless and convenient options that eventually become widely accepted and change consumer payment behaviour.

Digital Payments

John Winchcombe

28 Jan. 2025

2 min read

Pain of Paying Moves to Digital Payments

Research has found that paying with cash is associated with pain and that people tend to spend less using cash rather than a payment card.

Cash Usage

John Winchcombe

28 Jan. 2025

5 min read

Payment News

In a special report 01/2025, ‘Digital payments in the EU’ (European Union), the European Court of Auditors says that EU’s approach to digital payments has helped to make them ‘safer, faster and cheaper for users’.

News

John Winchcombe

28 Jan. 2025

5 min read

CBDC News

OMFIF, in partnership with Giesecke+Devrient, is publishing a report in February exploring the factors contributing to the hesitation about launching a CBDC and what concerns central banks struggle with. In the report’s survey of central banks, 81% of respondents have issued or expect to issue a CBDC at some point, with 47% expecting to issue one within five years.

CBDC

John Winchcombe

28 Jan. 2025

5 min read

News in Brief

The Bundesbank has published the third module of its study into the costs of cash and card payments from the consumer’s point of view.

News

John Winchcombe

28 Jan. 2025

6 min read

Cash Usage Holding Up in the Eurosystem

The headlines in the European Central Bank’s (ECB) 2024 study on the payment attitudes of consumers in the euro area (SPACE) paint an interesting picture for cash payments, both alone and relative to other payment instruments.

Cash Usage

John Winchcombe

28 Jan. 2025

5 min read

Cash Management Companies – Part of the Solution?

60 people met in Jakarta at the end of September last year for a summit by the Asian Cash Management Association (ACMA). They came from a range of stakeholders across cash cycles in the region, including central banks, Cash Management Companies (CMCs) and commercial banks.

Cash in Circulation

John Winchcombe

28 Jan. 2025

4 min read

UK Cash Industry Environmental ‘Wins’

Members of the UK’s Cash Industry Environmental Charter (CIEC) Group have shared best practice and worked together since 2021 with the aim of reducing the carbon footprint of notes and coins in the cash cycle.

Sustainability

John Winchcombe

28 Jan. 2025

1 min read

Advantages of Automated Retail Cash Systems

While consumer payments are changing, cash continues to flourish. However, there is a need to address some of inefficiencies in cash handling if cash is to thrive.

Cash Usage

John Winchcombe

26 Dec. 2024

2 min read

Public Lukewarm on New Zealand CBDC

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has published the results of its consultation on a possible CBDC. The consultation had the highest response rate of any RBNZ survey, with more than 500 individuals and groups writing in, as well as 18,000 online survey responses.

CBDC

John Winchcombe

26 Dec. 2024

4 min read

Maintaining Cash On Europe’s Agenda

At the Coin Conference in Lisbon Martina Horakova, Managing Director, International Mint Industry Association (IMIA), presented European Economic Area legislations and proposals ‘in favour’ of cash access and acceptance.

Future of Cash

Francisco Mandiola

26 Dec. 2024

6 min read

Chile Reserves Judgement On Trump’s Bitcoin Idea

While the United States and Brazil debate the use of bitcoin in their international reserves, the Banco Central de Chile, in line with its Governor's firm commitment to cash, categorically rules out this possibility, arguing that crypto assets do not meet the legal or technical criteria for their inclusion.

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John Winchcombe

23 Dec. 2024

3 min read

Technology Focus: Programmable Payments

Programmable payments are often talked about in the context of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), but they are possible with any digital payment. The Federal Reserve of Atlanta has written a useful blog explaining them.

CBDC

John Winchcombe

23 Dec. 2024

5 min read

Access to Cash: Combining Perception to Distance

Access to cash has become a key area of interest for central banks. The Bank of Canada has compared subjective perceptions of cash accessibility with distance based metrics and published their findings in a staff analytical note.

Cash Usage

John Winchcombe

23 Dec. 2024

5 min read

Payment News

Mobile money transactions in Kenya surged to KSh6.5 trillion in the first nine months of 2024, reflecting a 13.2% growth compared to KSh5.8 trillion during the same period last year.

News

John Winchcombe

23 Dec. 2024

2 min read

BOE Explores CBDC Privacy Solutions

The Bank of England (BOE) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Digital Currency Initiative (MIT DCI) have published a paper exploring privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) for a possible digital pound.

Digital CN

John Winchcombe

23 Dec. 2024

2 min read

Half-Time in the ECB’s Digital Euro Assessment

The European Central Bank (ECB) is half-way through its assessment work about whether to launch a CBDC. This has involved extensive consultation. It has published its second progress report on its preparation phase of a digital euro.

CBDC

John Winchcombe

20 Dec. 2024

4 min read

News in Brief

The European Commission is preparing to introduce new rules on cash payments in order to fight against money laundering.

News

Latest News

NatWest Leads Brainstorm for a Response to Changing Cash

Asia’s Currency Trends

Introducing the Universal Access to Payments Index

Pain of Paying Moves to Digital Payments

Payment News

CBDC News

News in Brief

Cash Usage Holding Up in the Eurosystem

Cash Management Companies – Part of the Solution?

UK Cash Industry Environmental ‘Wins’

Advantages of Automated Retail Cash Systems

Public Lukewarm on New Zealand CBDC

Maintaining Cash On Europe’s Agenda

Chile Reserves Judgement On Trump’s Bitcoin Idea

Technology Focus: Programmable Payments

Access to Cash: Combining Perception to Distance

Payment News

BOE Explores CBDC Privacy Solutions

Half-Time in the ECB’s Digital Euro Assessment

News in Brief

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