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John Winchcombe

20 Feb. 2024

5 min read

CBDC Round-Up

A technical article by Manuel Muñoz and Oscar Soons, unusually, considers the role of CBDCs as a store of value instrument for consumers.

Digital CN

John Winchcombe

20 Feb. 2024

5 min read

2024: a Year of Protecting Cash

2024 has kicked off with a focus on cash, particularly a series of initiatives to safeguard access to cash.

Editorial Free Free

John Winchcombe

20 Feb. 2024

1 min read

Dates for the CBDC Conference Set

The CBDC conference returns to Istanbul 10-12 September.

Events

John Winchcombe

20 Feb. 2024

5 min read

Payment News

A new version of the famous Monopoly board game has been created, ‘Monopoly Voice Banking’, that has replaced paper cash with a voice-activated banker.

News

John Winchcombe

20 Feb. 2024

3 min read

On 30 June 2022, Italy introduced a law fining merchants €30, plus 4% of the transaction value, if they did not accept a card payment. This law, along with vigorous promotion of card payments, has led Italy to having some of the highest rates of card accepting merchants per million inhabitants in Europe.

Cash Usage

John Winchcombe

20 Feb. 2024

2 min read

Financial Inclusion or Payment Inclusion?

Dr Franklin Noll, a payments specialist who works as a Lead at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, has posted in LinkedIn an interesting piece on financial / payment inclusion. He has expressed his own opinions, not those of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Digital Payments

John Winchcombe

20 Feb. 2024

5 min read

News in Brief

The European Union has developed plans to reduce money laundering. This includes a limit on cash payments of €10,000 (versus €3,000 as previously proposed).

News

John Winchcombe

20 Feb. 2024

8 min read

Designing for Financial Inclusion

A Bank of Canada staff paper gives useful insight into financial exclusion. It does this in the context of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), but the findings have broad relevance to payments generally.

Studies, Reports

John Winchcombe

25 Jan. 2024

6 min read

Digital Yet to Reduce Cash Usage in India

India’s economy has, like most countries, been buffeted by unexpected shocks over the last few years. Cash was disrupted by the November 2016 demonetisation exercise and by the pandemic.

Cash Usage

John Winchcombe

25 Jan. 2024

2 min read

ATM Trends in 2024

ATM Marketplace has identified three key areas for innovation for ATMs in 2024 – use of AI, video banking, and cash automation.

ATMs

John Winchcombe

25 Jan. 2024

5 min read

Payment News

A Barbadian bank announced that it will introduce fees from 1 February.

News

John Winchcombe

25 Jan. 2024

7 min read

An ABC of AI

Leon Schumacher, from Digital Ekho, gave the opening talk at the AI & CB (Artificial Intelligence and Central Bank) online conference in December. For those new to AI, it provided a fast overview of what AI is and some of the issues connected to it.

John Winchcombe

25 Jan. 2024

2 min read

New Year, New Name!

Cash & Payment News™ (CPN) was first published in July 2018 as the successor to Payment News Quarterly. While Currency News™ focuses on the product that is ‘cash’, CPN has concentrated on the use of cash once issued.

Free Free

John Winchcombe

25 Jan. 2024

5 min read

CBDC Round-Up

The ECB is looking to sign five agreements worth about €1.1 billion for a four year pilot of a Digital Euro starting early 2025.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

25 Jan. 2024

5 min read

CBDCs and the Law of Unintended Consequences

Whether you agree with Henry Ford, ‘History is bunk’, or George Santayana, ‘Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it’, a paper from the Department of Economic History at Uppsala University gives an interesting perspective on the risks of introducing a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).

CBDC

John Winchcombe

25 Jan. 2024

5 min read

News in Brief

Even China isn’t immune from ‘less cash’. One bank, ICBC, has taken action in Taizhou in Jiangsu to remind people about the requirement for merchants to accept cash in its branches.

News

John Winchcombe

25 Jan. 2024

5 min read

Demand for ATMs Evolving and Growing

However you want to cut it, NCR Atleos (Atleos) is big in all thing’s ATMs. Data as of 23 June 2023, used in its September 2023 investor day, showed that it had over 800,000 installed ATMs.

ATMs

John Winchcombe

25 Jan. 2024

3 min read

Mobile Money has Limited Impact on Cash in Uganda

An International Monetary Fund paper uses data from Uganda to understand whether digital payment innovations, particularly mobile money payments, will increase financial inclusion and if it will reduce people’s preference for cash.

Cash Usage

John Winchcombe

25 Jan. 2024

6 min read

2023 in Hindsight

In 2023 we continued to cover cash, payments and Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). This article provides a swift summary of the year that was.

Editorial

John Winchcombe

29 Dec. 2023

3 min read

Cash Use Rises in the UK

For the first time in years, cash usage has risen in the UK, and not by a small percentage. The British Retail Consortium conducts an annual Payments Survey which covers 35% of the UK’s retailers, and this is the first time since it started the survey in 2013 that it has seen an increase.

Cash Usage

Latest News

CBDC Round-Up

2024: a Year of Protecting Cash

Dates for the CBDC Conference Set

Payment News

Will Italy Go Digital?

Financial Inclusion or Payment Inclusion?

News in Brief

Designing for Financial Inclusion

Digital Yet to Reduce Cash Usage in India

ATM Trends in 2024

Payment News

An ABC of AI

New Year, New Name!

CBDC Round-Up

CBDCs and the Law of Unintended Consequences

News in Brief

Demand for ATMs Evolving and Growing

Mobile Money has Limited Impact on Cash in Uganda

2023 in Hindsight

Cash Use Rises in the UK

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