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John Winchcombe

20 Aug. 2024

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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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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

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Titanic Struggle Over Consumer Protection and Market Dominance

It appears that payment stakeholders in the US and UK are seeking to pass laws and take legal action to address a perceived lack of competition in the digital payment arena. In the last few weeks, there have been a series of reports detailing legislative, regulatory and court developments in this area.

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John Winchcombe

21 May 2024

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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

18 April 2024

6 min read

rCBDC Lessons from the Caribbean

Franklin Noll of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City has written a payment systems research briefing note on what can be learnt from the experience of retail CBDCs (rCBDC) in the Caribbean.

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John Winchcombe

26 March 2024

4 min read

Cash Is More Than a Public Good

A new CashEssentials paper addresses the questions ‘Is cash a public good?’ and ‘Is it a basic right?’ with the aim of clarifying the debate and advancing policy recommendations.

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John Winchcombe

20 Feb. 2024

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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.

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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.

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John Winchcombe

29 Dec. 2023

3 min read

Denmark to Change its Banknotes in Order to Keep Them

Danmarks Nationalbank has carried out an analysis of the role of cash in a low cash usage society.

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John Winchcombe

28 Nov. 2023

3 min read

Exploring the Role of AI in the Central Banking Domain

Artificial Intelligence (AI) roared into the public consciousness in 2023. Its widespread use and, more importantly, its potential have become visible to all, not just the small specialist user community that has been working on it for years. Clearly, AI is of great interest to central banks from the policy makers through the cash issue department.

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John Winchcombe

28 Nov. 2023

3 min read

Making The Case for Cash

If a general can choose the battlefield, they can shape what happens next in the fight that follows. At the Future of Cash conference Brett Scott, the author, explained how the digital leaders have created and driven the story that digital is good and analogue is bad.

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John Winchcombe

2 Nov. 2023

4 min read

Future of Cash – an ATM Perspective

As noted in the summary of the recent Emerging Market and Europe ATM and Cash Summit in Dublin, the focus was on understanding the future of ATMs in a changing cash environment. As such there was a strong ‘Future of Cash’ feel to the agenda alongside more technical ATM perspectives and topics.

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John Winchcombe

25 Sept. 2023

5 min read

Hoarding By Design

Understanding the difference between banknotes used for transactions and those used for non-transactional purposes is a perennial issue for central banks.

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John Winchcombe

29 Aug. 2023

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Figuring Out Cash Demand

The Banque de France issued a working paper in October 2022 that dealt with a number of fundamental questions about cash, questions that are particularly important in a less cash scenario. The paper addressed not just why people hold cash but why they hold different denominations. As the economy changes, what happens to cash holdings?

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Astrid Mitchell

24 Aug. 2023

2 min read

CBDC Conference: from Niche to Mainstream

CBDCs started to become visible in published papers and discussions around 2016. No doubt there was much material before then but the acceleration of interest and activity has taken CBDCs from a niche to main stream media discussions.

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John Winchcombe

30 July 2023

4 min read

Central Banks and Big Data and Machine Learning

The European Money and Finance Forum has recently published a useful paper on big data and machine learning in central banks.

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John Winchcombe

25 June 2023

7 min read

ABCD to STSMs – A New Banknote Forecasting Model

With the publication of the IMF paper ‘Measurement and Use of Cash by Half the World’s Population’, and the Cash Essentials rebuttal, a new paper about demand forecasting by the Banca d’Italia is timely and adds to the discussion.

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James Shepherd-Barron

11 May 2023

3 min read

Cash As Important As Food

The UN-facilitated Cash Working Group for Sudan, temporarily based in Nairobi, Kenya, is considering its options. While there will be a short-term requirement for food-aid, the bulk of the response is likely to involve cash transfers. But in what form?

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John Winchcombe

23 April 2023

4 min read

Hungary Legislates on Minimum Requirements for Currency Infrastructure

Anikó Bódi-Schubert and Ágnes Illés Belházy have provided a short summary of the content of the new Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB) regulation on the processing and distribution of banknotes, its main motives and its expected impact on domestic cash payments.

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John Winchcombe

26 March 2023

5 min read

IMF Concludes Cash Usage Falling Globally

While data about digital payments is usually good, measuring cash is problematic. Understanding cash usage is important for regulatory authorities. IMF Working Paper WP/23/62 explores the measurement of cash based on ATM cash withdrawals value as an alternative to the traditional cash in circulation as a proportion of GDP method.

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Meeting the Challenge Facing Retail Money

New Zealand Trials Community Cash Services

Titanic Struggle Over Consumer Protection and Market Dominance

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

rCBDC Lessons from the Caribbean

Cash Is More Than a Public Good

2024: a Year of Protecting Cash

New Year, New Name!

Denmark to Change its Banknotes in Order to Keep Them

Exploring the Role of AI in the Central Banking Domain

Making The Case for Cash

Future of Cash – an ATM Perspective

Hoarding By Design

Figuring Out Cash Demand

CBDC Conference: from Niche to Mainstream

Central Banks and Big Data and Machine Learning

ABCD to STSMs – A New Banknote Forecasting Model

Cash As Important As Food

Hungary Legislates on Minimum Requirements for Currency Infrastructure

IMF Concludes Cash Usage Falling Globally

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