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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.

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John Winchcombe

14 Oct. 2024

3 min read

Vital Importance of Maintaining the Cash ‘Habit’

The International Mint Industry Association (IMIA) has seven European mints as full members and seven associate members. It has recently issued a brief that argues for pro-active policies to safeguard cash payments to ensure European crisis resilience. Although some of the arguments are European specific, the broad thesis has wider relevance.

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John Winchcombe

22 Sept. 2024

3 min read

The Importance of Life Buoys

A recent blog by Sam Bobeov and Fintech Wrap on Payment : Unpacked asked who gets left behind in a cashless world.

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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.

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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.

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John Winchcombe

22 July 2024

4 min read

New Zealand Trials Community Cash Services

At the recent Cash Sustainability Forum, held in Frankfurt last month, Ian Woolford, Head of Money and Cash at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, gave a presentation on the country’s impending community cash services trial.

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John Winchcombe

30 June 2024

3 min read

Payment Change in Latin America

A recent McKinsey survey in Latin America found that the number of people who said cash was their preferred payment method had halved between 2021 and 2023.

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John Winchcombe

30 June 2024

2 min read

Cash Visibility and Collaboration

The International Association of Currency Affairs (IACA) is 20 years old this year. At the Banknote Conference in Fort Worth, Texas last month it held a session on ‘Cash Visibility and Collaboration’, which was a full house with nearly 120 people attending. Even with 77 member organisations drawn from central banks and suppliers, this turnout was exceptional.

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John Winchcombe

30 June 2024

5 min read

Overview of Cash in the UK

There have been a series of press reports about cash over the last few weeks. Put them together and a story emerges of what a society going cashless looks like.

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John Winchcombe

25 May 2024

4 min read

Cash Use Stable in Canada

The Bank of Canada carries out regular Methods of Payment surveys to measure payment method adoption, use at the point of sale and perceptions about payment methods. This helps the Bank with its management of banknotes and understanding of digital currencies and may help with its work on a possible CBDC.

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John Winchcombe

21 May 2024

8 min read

Cash Use – Updates from Around the World

Sweden’s Riksbank, the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), the Central Bank of Uruguay and the Federal Reserve all provided information on cash use in their economies at the recent Banknote Conference in Fort Worth, TX.

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John Winchcombe

21 May 2024

5 min read

Payment Change in India, Cash and Debit Still in the Game

A few days after celebrating its 90th anniversary, Reserve Bank of India Governor Shakti Kant Das has announced several new payment initiatives.

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John Winchcombe

23 April 2024

4 min read

Cash Use Stable in Canada

The Bank of Canada (BOC) carries out regular Methods of Payment (MOP) surveys to measure payment method adoption, use at the point of sale (POS) and perceptions about payment methods. This helps the BOC with its management of banknotes and understanding of digital currencies and may help with its work on a possible Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).

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John Winchcombe

18 April 2024

4 min read

The New Cash Paradox

The end of the ‘cash era’, announced by The Economist 15 years ago, has not arrived. On the contrary, in a contactless but crisis-ridden world, cash is leaving wallets and taking refuge in mattresses. This article from Marc Schwartz, Chairman and CEO of Monnaie de Paris, was first published by Cash Essentials.

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John Winchcombe

26 March 2024

6 min read

Nexus Between Payments Digitisation and Cash Usage in the Philippines

Innovation in contactless payment technology, the COVID-19 pandemic, increased e-commerce, and enhanced transparency, security, and convenience have transformed the retail payment markets in the last few years.

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John Winchcombe

25 Feb. 2024

6 min read

Calculating Cash Use in Australia

The Reserve Bank of Australia has published an article in its Bulletin about cash usage. The article starts by explaining that transactional demand is hard to calculate and then goes on to use four different methods to establish a range of estimates.

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John Winchcombe

20 Feb. 2024

3 min read

Will Italy Go Digital?

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Access to Cash: Combining Perception to Distance

Vital Importance of Maintaining the Cash ‘Habit’

The Importance of Life Buoys

Meeting the Challenge Facing Retail Money

Paris 2024 Olympics: No Competition for Visa

New Zealand Trials Community Cash Services

Payment Change in Latin America

Cash Visibility and Collaboration

Overview of Cash in the UK

Cash Use Stable in Canada

Cash Use – Updates from Around the World

Payment Change in India, Cash and Debit Still in the Game

Cash Use Stable in Canada

The New Cash Paradox

Nexus Between Payments Digitisation and Cash Usage in the Philippines

Calculating Cash Use in Australia

Will Italy Go Digital?

Digital Yet to Reduce Cash Usage in India

Mobile Money has Limited Impact on Cash in Uganda

Cash Use Rises in the UK

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