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John Winchcombe

22 Sept. 2024

2 min read

Tech Trends and their Relevance to Cash and Payments

McKinsey’s has published a list of the top 15 tech trends to follow. Chris Skinner, an independent commentator on the financial markets and an author, highlighted this recently in his blog, TheFinanser.com.

John Winchcombe

22 Sept. 2024

3 min read

Two Seminars Drive Discussion and Debate on the Future of Cash and Payments

The Cash Cycle Seminars (ICCOS) are annual events from Currency Research (CR) that bring global knowledge to regional markets in the Americas, Asia, and EMEA.

Events

Jens Eberhardt

22 Aug. 2024

6 min read

Optimising the Cash Cycle: Standards in the Supply Chain

At the recent Cash Sustainability Forum in Frankfurt, Cash InfraPro presented on the challenges and opportunities of making the cash supply chain work well.

Cash Management

John Winchcombe

22 Aug. 2024

2 min read

Colombia Builds Bricks of Digital Payment Infrastructure

The World Economic Forum has recently published an article describing Colombia’s work to create Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), a key element of which is interoperable digital payments.

Digital Payments

John Winchcombe

20 Aug. 2024

2 min read

Thinking About the Future

August is one of those months where much of the world slows down, particularly in the northern hemisphere, creating an opportunity for a more reflective piece. As a result, this edition spends some time looking to the future.

Editorial

John Winchcombe

20 Aug. 2024

5 min read

Meeting the Challenge Facing Retail Money

The Bank of Canada has issued a staff discussion paper considering the role of retail public money at a time when new technology and new participants, some non-financial firms, are entering the process of money creation.

Cash Usage CBDC Free Free

John Winchcombe

20 Aug. 2024

2 min read

The Case for Driving Digital Economies in Asia

Mastercard’s President of Global Enterprise Growth, Raghu Malhotra, gave his views on Digital Payment Regulations in Asia recently to Asia Business Outlook. His starting point was to argue for harmonised regulations in order to increase cross-border transactions and financial inclusion. If there can be a seamless operation across four countries versus a single country, the economics will differ and benefit the end consumer and merchants.

Digital CN

John Winchcombe

20 Aug. 2024

5 min read

Is Artificial Intelligence the Future of Minting?

In June, the Mint Director’s Association held a webinar focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool and how it can be implemented to improve productivity. While coins were the focus of the talk, the theme applies to all currency and business in general. The webinar was hosted by Mr Aditya Berlia – an entrepreneur, educator, and AI advocate – and sponsored by Carveco.

Guillaume Lepecq

20 Aug. 2024

5 min read

Paris 2024 Olympics: No Competition for Visa

As a worldwide partner to the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Visa has a monopoly on all debit, credit and mobile payments. Spectators are venting their frustration. Paradoxically, the campaign demonstrates the importance of cash in terms of inclusion, protection of privacy and resilience.

Cash Usage Retail

John Winchcombe

20 Aug. 2024

5 min read

CBDC News

Sweden’s Riksbank has started to look at the climate impact of adopting a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).

CBDC

John Winchcombe

20 Aug. 2024

4 min read

Conference News

The CBDC Conference takes place 10- 12 September in Istanbul. One recently announced element of the agenda is a Governor’s panel chaired by John Ho, Standard Chartered.

John Winchcombe

20 Aug. 2024

5 min read

News in Brief

Revolut has recently received a UK banking licence. It has 9 million UK customers, 45 million globally. It has now announced that those customers can deposit cash into their accounts.

News

John Winchcombe

20 Aug. 2024

3 min read

Payment News

In the face of US and European Commission regulatory pressure, Apple is enabling iPhones to make contactless payments to third party providers. It will though, charge associated fees.

News

John Winchcombe

20 Aug. 2024

3 min read

BoE Consults on Innovation

The Bank of England (BoE) has published its approach to innovation in money and payments, proposing a programme to test infrastructure that supports the settlement of central bank money against digital assets such as stablecoins, tokenised deposits and other innovations. The Bank has published previous papers on the regulation of stablecoins, innovations by deposit-takers and CBDCs.

Central Banks

John Winchcombe

20 Aug. 2024

3 min read

The IMF, Central Bank Independence and CBDCs

Tobias Adrian, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department, spoke at the International Symposium on Central Bank Independence in Stockholm at the start of the year. His topic was maintaining central bank independence alongside the development of payments and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC).

Central Banks

John Winchcombe

20 Aug. 2024

3 min read

The Impact of Tokenisation

David Birch has written about the presentation made by Sarah Breeden, Deputy Governor at the Bank of England, at the Swiss National Bank’s event ‘Towards the future of the monetary system’. In it she described two waves of benefits from tokenisation. In the short term it will bring greater efficiency to the existing payment and settlement system. In the longer term she sees radical change to post-trade processes.

Digital Payments

John Winchcombe

22 July 2024

9 min read

Making the Cash Cycle Work More Sustainably

The European Central Bank’s Product Environmental Footprint study found that 82% of the environmental impact of banknotes happened post-issue. In addition, all around the world cash usage is changing. Stakeholders are having to rethink how cash is organised.

Sustainability

John Winchcombe

22 July 2024

1 min read

BIS Reports Urges Central Bank Engagement with AI

The Bank for International Settlements has published a report stating that central banks should be using Artificial Intelligence to improve their analytical tools.

John Winchcombe

22 July 2024

2 min read

Central Bank Artificial Intelligence Conference 2024

Currency Research is launching its inaugural Central Bank Artificial Intelligence (CBAI) conference in London 25-26 September. The CBAI follows on directly from the Digital Currency Conference (DCC) which takes place at the same venue 23-24 September, in what the organisers are terming Payments, Innovation and Technology Week.

Events

John Winchcombe

22 July 2024

5 min read

CBDC News

Both the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the European Central Bank (ECB) are working on wholesale CBDC infrastructure.

CBDC

Latest News

Tech Trends and their Relevance to Cash and Payments

Two Seminars Drive Discussion and Debate on the Future of Cash and Payments

Optimising the Cash Cycle: Standards in the Supply Chain

Colombia Builds Bricks of Digital Payment Infrastructure

Thinking About the Future

Meeting the Challenge Facing Retail Money

The Case for Driving Digital Economies in Asia

Is Artificial Intelligence the Future of Minting?

Paris 2024 Olympics: No Competition for Visa

CBDC News

Conference News

News in Brief

Payment News

BoE Consults on Innovation

The IMF, Central Bank Independence and CBDCs

The Impact of Tokenisation

Making the Cash Cycle Work More Sustainably

BIS Reports Urges Central Bank Engagement with AI

Central Bank Artificial Intelligence Conference 2024

CBDC News

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