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John Winchcombe

26 March 2023

5 min read

Payments News

Something strange is happening in the US. According to PYMNTS research, fewer US restaurants are accepting digital wallets as a form of payment. Between September 2021 and April 2022, the number fell from 81% to 73%. At the same time consumer confidence in wallets has been rising.

News

John Winchcombe

26 March 2023

5 min read

CBDC News

Germany’s community bank group has argued that Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) should only be brought into circulation by commercial banks who should be ‘appropriately compensated’ for it.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

26 March 2023

5 min read

Bringing Futures Literacy to the Future of Money

Cash Essentials has issued a report, ‘The Role of Cash in the Future Monetary Landscape’. Based on a Futures Literacy Lab hosted by Cash Essentials in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair for the Future of Finance at Ecole des Ponts Business School, in September 2022. The paper lays out how a Futures Literacy Lab works and seeks to understand the future of money.

Cash Usage Future of Cash

John Winchcombe

24 March 2023

11 min read

WBS Lays Out a New Cash Future

The 2023 World Banknote Summit (WBS) took place in Antwerp and was structured around three key areas – the performance of cash in a crisis, the sustainability of cash and the future outlook of cash.

Digital CN Events Future of Cash

John Winchcombe

24 March 2023

3 min read

Crime Round-Up

Although a snap shot of cash related crimes taken from media reports, they are a reminder of the risks of cash related crime used to justify less cash.

Crime

John Winchcombe

24 March 2023

8 min read

It Is All About Trust

Danmarks Nationalbank held a conference on 9 March in Copenhagen that looked at crypto assets and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), and then Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).

CBDC Central Banks Events

John Winchcombe

24 March 2023

2 min read

Coinbase Explains Stablecoins

The cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase has published a series of tweets giving its perspective on stablecoins, providing a good summary and insight about them.

Digital CN

John Winchcombe

23 Feb. 2023

6 min read

From Merchant to Consumer: a Payment Overview

The Bank of Canada (BOC) has published two survey reports in the last few months. The first was the Methods of Payment survey 2021 and the second the Merchant Acceptance Survey Pilot Study.

Cash Usage Digital Payments Retail

John Winchcombe

23 Feb. 2023

4 min read

Does France Love Cash?

The International Mint Industry Association (IMIA) issued a brief making the case for cash and for freedom of choice at its launch this month.

Country Profile Studies, Reports

John Winchcombe

23 Feb. 2023

5 min read

Payment News

The Dutch National Bank has carried out research into how people are coping with adapting to digital payments. Nearly 20% of those over 18 years old, 2.6 million, struggle with digital payments.

News

John Winchcombe

23 Feb. 2023

4 min read

Individual Logic, Collective Idiocy? 3 Perspectives on the Need for Cash

Commercial banks are profit-seeking entities. Cost reduction to maximise profits and automation are core to achieving that. Bank branches and ATMs are expensive, hence the drive to close so many of them and, in the process, the ability to deposit and issue cash goes too. Merchants and the public are pushed towards going cashless, or at the very least, less-cash.

Cash Usage Future of Cash

John Winchcombe

23 Feb. 2023

4 min read

Dutch Struggle with Digital Payments, and Ability to Pay in Cash

At the end of 2011, the Netherlands had 2,654 bank branches. At the end of 2021 this had fallen to 726, and not all of those provided over the counter cash services. At the same time, more than 4% of retailers now inform customers that they don’t accept cash.

Cash Usage Country Profile Free Free

John Winchcombe

23 Feb. 2023

5 min read

CBDC Round-Up

In a recent speech to the European Union Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Fabio Panetta, European Central Bank board member, said the ECB is looking at a new digital euro app with a basic payment function and creating a standardised way of connecting end users to intermediaries.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

23 Feb. 2023

6 min read

‘Hard Law’ Needed to Safeguard Euro Cash

The International Mint Industry Association has published a position paper (2023/01) urging the European Commission to give legal certainty on the implications of the legal tender status of euro banknotes and coins in terms of mandatory acceptance and to enshrine it in secondary law.

Future of Cash Studies, Reports

John Winchcombe

23 Feb. 2023

5 min read

IMIA – Making the Case for Cash, and Coins

The International Mint Industry Association (IMIA) was founded last year and officially launched this month at the World Money Fair in Berlin, with a specific focus on research and advocacy for coins as part of the cash, and hence payments, ecosystem. IMIA President Gerhard Starsich (GS) and Managing Director Martina Horakova (MH) spoke to sister publication Coin & Mint News™ about the foundation of the new association, the role of coins in the cash cycle, and how the IMIA plans to make the case for their importance, and indeed that of cash overall.

Coins

John Winchcombe

23 Feb. 2023

2 min read

Follow the Silk Road to Kazakhstan

Currency Research will be holding the inaugural Silk Road Cash & Payments Conference in Almaty from 27-29 March.

Events

John Winchcombe

23 Feb. 2023

2 min read

EU Further Reduces Proposed Cash Limits

As noted in the December issue of Cash & Payment News™, the European Union has announced a set of new directives to limit the amount of cash and crypto transactions in a move, it says, that will crack down on money laundering and terrorist financing.

Cash Management Cash Usage

John Winchcombe

23 Feb. 2023

5 min read

News in Brief

Innovation in the UK’s banking sector continues, with Barclays Bank announcing the introduction of semi-permanent banking pods. 10 will be established by summer 2023 following a successful trial.

News

John Winchcombe

31 Jan. 2023

4 min read

An ABC of Carbon Offsetting

There will be very few organisations that can eliminate carbon emissions completely, and most organisations are going to take a number of years to get anywhere close.

Free Sustainability Free

John Winchcombe

31 Jan. 2023

8 min read

European Cash Fundamentals on the Move

The European Central Bank (ECB) has reported on its Study on the Payment Attitudes of Consumers in the Euro Area (SPACE) 2022.

Cash Usage Studies, Reports

Latest News

Payments News

CBDC News

Bringing Futures Literacy to the Future of Money

WBS Lays Out a New Cash Future

Crime Round-Up

It Is All About Trust

Coinbase Explains Stablecoins

From Merchant to Consumer: a Payment Overview

Does France Love Cash?

Payment News

Individual Logic, Collective Idiocy? 3 Perspectives on the Need for Cash

Dutch Struggle with Digital Payments, and Ability to Pay in Cash

CBDC Round-Up

‘Hard Law’ Needed to Safeguard Euro Cash

IMIA – Making the Case for Cash, and Coins

Follow the Silk Road to Kazakhstan

EU Further Reduces Proposed Cash Limits

News in Brief

An ABC of Carbon Offsetting

European Cash Fundamentals on the Move

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