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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.

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John Winchcombe

21 April 2025

2 min read

Reconnaissance International Launches DataVault™

Reconnaissance International has unveiled DataVault™, the industry’s first dedicated, searchable online database for banknotes and coins – designed specifically for currency professionals who need fast, reliable, and up-to-date information.

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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’.

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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

6 Dec. 2022

2 min read

Study Launched to Research Payment GHG Emissions

The Mint Directors’ Working Group (MDWG) spoke at the Coin Conference about new research commissioned into the environmental impact of cash compared with digital payments.

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John Winchcombe

2 Oct. 2022

3 min read

The Difficulties in Identifying the Cost of Payments

The Future of Cash conference had a special seminar dedicated to the cost of payments with presentations by the US Federal Reserve, SNB, Bundesbank, ECB and Tobias Truetsch from the University of St Gallen.

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John Winchcombe

31 July 2022

7 min read

Lessons from Incentives Encouraging Digital Payments

The World Bank’s Financial Inclusion Global Initiative (FIGI) has issued a paper investigating Incentives for Electronic Payment Acceptance (EPA). The report was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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John Winchcombe

26 Nov. 2021

2 min read

Focus on Data

Kantar, who deals in consumer knowledge and insights, wrote an interesting piece last year about how they can help businesses make the consumer experience better with all the benefits for customer satisfaction that come from it.

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John Winchcombe

19 Nov. 2021

2 min read

Trust in Money, Digital or Physical

Prof Dr Julia Pitter spoke at the recent Bundesbank cash symposium about the relationship between people and cash. According to Dr Pitter, a business psychologist at the Internationale Hochschule in Vienna, cash is more than a payment.

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John Winchcombe

26 July 2021

7 min read

Modelling Future Cash Transaction Volumes

In September 2020 Reconnaissance Consulting Group was asked to consider what would happen to cash at a future moment where the world economy and society had re-opened living with COVID.

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John Winchcombe

21 June 2021

6 min read

What Drives Consumer Payment Behaviour?

In 2019 National Westminster Bank (NatWest) commissioned independent academic research to look into the drivers of consumer payment behaviour, including consumer attitudes and intentions towards cash. The research was carried out by Professor Darren Duxbury, Dr Thanos Verousis and by David Marsh. This is a short summary of their work with the full research being published in due course.

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Alper Sayin

22 Dec. 2020

6 min read

Cash Balance Optimization Using AI & Big Data

Garanti BBVA has developed software using Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to manage its cash logistics. Alper Sayin, Head of Cash Planning and Operations, has written about his experience introducing this software and how they are using it.

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Latest News

Making Sense of the World of Currency

Reconnaissance International Launches DataVault™

Regulatory Challenges of AI

Central Banks and Big Data and Machine Learning

Study Launched to Research Payment GHG Emissions

The Difficulties in Identifying the Cost of Payments

Lessons from Incentives Encouraging Digital Payments

Focus on Data

Trust in Money, Digital or Physical

Modelling Future Cash Transaction Volumes

What Drives Consumer Payment Behaviour?

Cash Balance Optimization Using AI & Big Data

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