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John Winchcombe

28 May 2026

5 min read

Payment News

A consortium of major European banks are working on a privately-issued digital euro. However, the European Central Bank (ECB) argues that euro-denominated stablecoins are not an effective way to strengthen the euro’s international appeal.

Payments

John Winchcombe

28 May 2026

4 min read

CBDC News

18 months after the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) exited the mBridge cross-border project and launched Project Agorá, the fragmentation of cross-border payments has become almost institutionalised.

CBDC

John Winchcombe

28 May 2026

3 min read

Making Sense of the World of Currency

With 163 banknote issuing authorities, over 1,000 circulating banknote denominations and a similar number of coins, exploring currency trends can look daunting. Central banks, mints and treasury departments often need to understand design, substrate and security feature trends in the region and wider to explore options. Printers, designers, R&D departments and product managers, suppliers and cash cycle stakeholders also need this information.

Data Analytics

12 May 2026

1 min read

Cash Surveys in Three Economies Point to Stabilising Usage

The CPT Group has published a comparative analysis of recent consumer payments surveys from Switzerland, Australia, and Jamaica, drawing some striking parallels despite the three countries' very different payment landscapes.

Cash in Circulation Payments

John Winchcombe

23 April 2026

4 min read

Growing Cash Pressure in Switzerland

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) runs a number of annual surveys to understand payment trends over time and what is happening now. The latest is the 2025 survey of payment methods of 2,000 private individuals, consisting of a questionnaire and the keeping of a payment diary for a seven day period.

Free Surveys Free

John Winchcombe

23 April 2026

3 min read

Importance of Cash Confirmed in Australia

The 2025 Australian Consumer Payments Survey shows that cash use has stabilised in recent years.

Surveys

John Winchcombe

23 April 2026

3 min read

CBDC News

Norges Bank has now published four reports that led it to conclude in December 2025 that introducing a CBDC was currently not warranted.

CBDC

John Winchcombe

23 April 2026

3 min read

Realising the Promise of Stablecoins is Uncertain

Franklin Noll of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City has looked at where stablecoins are held and how they are used in the financial ecosystem in a Payments System Research Briefing.

Cryptocurrency

John Winchcombe

23 April 2026

5 min read

Payment News

Reuters reports the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is considering new controls for high-value transactions due to a rise in digital frauds.

Payments

John Winchcombe

23 April 2026

6 min read

News in Brief

OMFIF, an independent think tank for central banking, economic policy and public investment, has argued that cash plays a systemic role that no digital payment instrument, no matter how sophisticated, can replicate.

News

Guillaume Lepecq

23 April 2026

5 min read

The Geopolitical Storm: How Currency Wars and Crises Are Reshaping Cash and Financial Sovereignty

As geopolitical storms reshape global finance, cash is evolving into a strategic tool for sovereignty, resilience, and trust in an era of fragmentation and digital vulnerability.

Future of Cash Resilience

Dr Tomasz Jagielinski

23 April 2026

5 min read

How Long Do Coins Last in Circulation? Considerations regarding coin life estimation and the case of US pennies

This article was first published in February’s edition of Coin & Mint News™. The issue of estimated coin life has been a subject of speculation for a long time. There are limited data and systematic studies about the life of coins. Publicly available information from world mints suggests that coins could remain in circulation for at least 25 or 30 years. There are other sources suggesting that coins could last in circulation much longer and their lifetime could even exceed 50 years.

Coins

John Winchcombe

23 April 2026

2 min read

One Month, Three Conferences

Hot on the heels of the Global Currency Forum come three more conferences.

Events

John Winchcombe

12 April 2026

5 min read

The Case for Jam-Dex, Now!

A recent article in the Jamaica Observer focuses on Jamaica’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), known as Jam-Dex . Unusually not only does the article argue for increased usage of the CBDC, but it gives detailed suggestions for how to do this.

CBDC

John Winchcombe

12 April 2026

3 min read

Realising the Promise of Stablecoins is Uncertain

Franklin Noll of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City has looked at where stablecoins are held and how they are used in the financial ecosystem in a Payments System Research Briefing.

Digital Payments

John Winchcombe

12 April 2026

4 min read

Finding a Role for Retail CBDC

John Kiff, who writes as Kiffmeister, has written a series of papers considering the future of retail Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC). He started by analysing the CBDCTracker.org database to see what has been happening to CBDC over time. His first findings were that projects are not leading to launches. Some projects have been put on the backburner and some cancelled, never getting out of the research or proof-of-concept phases. Many central banks have refocused to wholesale CBDC-backed tokenised deposits.

CBDC

John Winchcombe

27 March 2026

5 min read

Payment News

The European Payment Initiative and the Digital Euro aim to gain European payment independence from the US payment giants.

Payments

John Winchcombe

27 March 2026

4 min read

A Focus on Currency at HSP EMEA

This year’s High Security Printing (HSP) conference for the Europe, Middle East and African region was the first ever in its 22 year history to be held in the latter region, and the biggest ever – with 341 delegates, 146 organisations and 49 countries attending.

Events

John Winchcombe

27 March 2026

2 min read

Travelling? Take Cash

On its 50th anniversary, the foreign exchange company Travelex has published its first Travel Money Insights Report. The good news is the headline that 69% of travellers still choose cash.

Cash Usage

John Winchcombe

27 March 2026

4 min read

Global Cash Day – Reaching New Audiences

On 12 March the first Global Cash Day reached LinkedIn, and perhaps beyond, initiated by the Cash Alliance and picked up by many players in the cash ‘industry’. This article steps back to consider how we develop it to reach further to a much wider audience.

Future of Cash

Latest News

Payment News

CBDC News

Making Sense of the World of Currency

Cash Surveys in Three Economies Point to Stabilising Usage

Growing Cash Pressure in Switzerland

Importance of Cash Confirmed in Australia

CBDC News

Realising the Promise of Stablecoins is Uncertain

Payment News

News in Brief

The Geopolitical Storm: How Currency Wars and Crises Are Reshaping Cash and Financial Sovereignty

How Long Do Coins Last in Circulation? Considerations regarding coin life estimation and the case of US pennies

One Month, Three Conferences

The Case for Jam-Dex, Now!

Realising the Promise of Stablecoins is Uncertain

Finding a Role for Retail CBDC

Payment News

A Focus on Currency at HSP EMEA

Travelling? Take Cash

Global Cash Day – Reaching New Audiences

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