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John Winchcombe

28 May 2026

2 min read

Cash Crisis? What Crisis?

There is a very significant focus on the challenges faced when people choose to pay digitally rather than with cash. It seems to be a, if not the, core theme of conferences, publications and public policy wherever you go. Why? And should it be? Two papers reported in this edition suggest it should not – the high volume economies report from the Global Currency Forum (GCF) and the Currency Research Cash Resilience paper.

Central Banks Editorial Future of Cash

John Winchcombe

28 May 2026

6 min read

The Realities of Managing Cash at Volume

An excellent session at the Global Currency Forum saw Joash Rono (Central Bank of Kenya), Alberto Torfer (Bank of Mexico), Anwar Bashori (Bank Indonesia – BI), Firat Emre Karakas (Central Bank of Türkiye – CBRT) and Faisal I Algosar (Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority) give the perspective of some high volume economies, a very different set of priorities from other presentations.

Cash in Circulation Central Banks

John Winchcombe

30 Oct. 2025

4 min read

Central Bank Annual Report Summary

A snapshot of recent annual reports (relating to 2024) and their payment contents.

Central Banks

Francisco Mandiola

14 Oct. 2024

13 min read

Are Central Bank Policies Aligned with The Need for Cash?

As we are aware, the use of cash is most certainly not being promoted with the same vigour that the use of electronic or mobile payments has been in recent media and advertising.

Central Banks

John Winchcombe

22 Sept. 2024

3 min read

Bank of England – Progress on Net Zero and CBDC

The Bank of England’s 2023/24 report outlines significant activities related to banknotes, payments and digital currency. Banknote value and volume in circulation was flat but net seigniorage income was up 153%. The Bank continues to make progress on its net zero carbon goals.

Central Banks

John Winchcombe

22 Sept. 2024

5 min read

Can Society Trust Central Banks?

The ‘Privacy Paradox’ is where people claim more concern with privacy than their actual behaviour indicates. This ‘say-do gap’ exists in many areas, including the need for cash to be maintained, but despite that, it means organisations are forced to respond.

Central Banks Free Free

John Winchcombe

20 Aug. 2024

3 min read

BoE Consults on Innovation

The Bank of England (BoE) has published its approach to innovation in money and payments, proposing a programme to test infrastructure that supports the settlement of central bank money against digital assets such as stablecoins, tokenised deposits and other innovations. The Bank has published previous papers on the regulation of stablecoins, innovations by deposit-takers and CBDCs.

Central Banks

John Winchcombe

20 Aug. 2024

3 min read

The IMF, Central Bank Independence and CBDCs

Tobias Adrian, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department, spoke at the International Symposium on Central Bank Independence in Stockholm at the start of the year. His topic was maintaining central bank independence alongside the development of payments and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC).

Central Banks

John Winchcombe

22 July 2024

2 min read

Central Bank Reports

In this new periodic series, we will cover in brief the news and information in various countries’ central bank annual reports as they relate to cash and payments, starting off with Ireland, Rwanda and Bhutan.

Central Banks

John Winchcombe

26 March 2024

3 min read

What Does Introducing CBDCs Imply for the Stability of Central Banks?

The ability of private citizens to execute electronic transactions using a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), central bank money, introduces new monetary stability challenges. A paper by Harald Uhlig from the University of Chicago considers this. The paper is highly theoretical but raises the sort of questions central banks have to get right in their planning for a CBDC.

CBDC Central Banks

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John Winchcombe

29 Aug. 2023

4 min read

Time for Cash Departments to Think Radically?

The role of Currency Issue Director is great preparation for high office in a central bank. Ask Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, or Michelle Bullock, soon to be Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, both of whom have managed currency in their banks. What makes it such good preparation?

Central Banks

John Winchcombe

30 July 2023

4 min read

Regulatory Challenges of AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, ‘big data’ and ChatGPT have now reached the public consciousness in a big way, hence headlines such as ‘Central Bank of Ireland blocks ChatGPT for staff as financial services firms grapple with AI’ and ‘China’s Central Bank Warns Against ChatGPT ‘Data Leaks’.

AI Central Banks Data Analytics

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.

Central Banks Data Analytics Free Free

John Winchcombe

23 April 2023

5 min read

Bank of England Describes Future Payments

Sir Jon Cunliffe, Deputy Director Financial Stability at the Bank of England, has spoken about innovation in payments and money, focusing on the impact and opportunities offered by tokenisation, including the future of cash.

Central Banks Future of Cash

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

28 Dec. 2022

6 min read

Bank of England Reports Cash Recovery

The Bank of England published in its quarterly bulleting an update on cash. The headlines were that cash has made a partial recovery.

Cash Usage Central Banks COVID

John Winchcombe

29 Aug. 2022

7 min read

Ensuring Payment Choice in the Euro Area

The European Central Bank (ECB) has published an article discussing access to cash in the euro area. It examines the challenges of distance, capacity and public perception and different approaches to modelling them.

Cash Management Central Banks

John Winchcombe

3 July 2022

4 min read

Bank of England Making Progress on its Environmental Targets

The Bank of England has issued its climate related financial disclosure document for 2022, which builds on the significant progress made in 2021.

Central Banks Sustainability

John Winchcombe

7 June 2022

3 min read

CBN Issues Cash Hub Consultation

The Central Bank of Nigeria is planning to introduce Bank Neutral Cash Hubs. It has issued a consultation paper en route to issuing final guidelines, and the draft proposals lay out the CBN’s vision and intentions.

Cash Management Central Banks

John Winchcombe

28 Jan. 2022

3 min read

The Political Economy of Central Bank Independence

Seigniorage income has long been a central bank source of finance which, if allowed to be retained, means central banks do not require direct funding from the government of the day in their country.

Central Banks Free Free

Latest News

Cash Crisis? What Crisis?

The Realities of Managing Cash at Volume

Central Bank Annual Report Summary

Are Central Bank Policies Aligned with The Need for Cash?

Bank of England – Progress on Net Zero and CBDC

Can Society Trust Central Banks?

BoE Consults on Innovation

The IMF, Central Bank Independence and CBDCs

Central Bank Reports

What Does Introducing CBDCs Imply for the Stability of Central Banks?

Time for Cash Departments to Think Radically?

Regulatory Challenges of AI

Central Banks and Big Data and Machine Learning

Bank of England Describes Future Payments

It Is All About Trust

Bank of England Reports Cash Recovery

Ensuring Payment Choice in the Euro Area

Bank of England Making Progress on its Environmental Targets

CBN Issues Cash Hub Consultation

The Political Economy of Central Bank Independence

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