The session will focus on understanding the changing cashMoney in physical form such as banknotes and coins. More environment and what stakeholders are doing to optimise the cash cycle and ensure the future viability and sustainability of cash. It brings together all stakeholders to discuss new strategies for shaping the cash ecosystem of the future – including the ATM infrastructure.
- Heike Wörlen from the Deutsche Bundesbank will take a systematic look at the opportunities and challenges awaiting cash in the medium to long-term future and analyse three exploratory scenarios for the future of cash.
- Antti Heinonen, former Head of Banknotes at the European Central Bank, will analyse the global evolution of cash demand since the Covid-19 pandemic and draw lessons for the future.
- Roel van Anholt from De Nederlandsche Bank, will discuss the evolution of ATM interchange fees in the Netherlands and the recent investigation by the Dutch anti competition authority
- Guillaume Lepecq from CashEssentials will address the questions: Is cash a public good? Or a basic right? If so what are the policy implications in terms of access and acceptance, resilience and the funding of the cash cycleRepresents the various stages of the lifecycle of cash, from issuance by the central bank, circulation in the economy, to destruction by the central bank. More?
Participants will be invited to deploy their collective intelligence to assess and discuss some of the key challenges and opportunities facing the future of cash, ranging from declining transactional demand for cash; the need for a more resilient cash cycle in a multi-crisis environment or the loss of privacy in a less-cash environment.
The seminar will be held in London on Thursday 10 October from 14;30 to 16:30 at the ATMIA Europe and Emerging Markets Conference For further information and registrations: https://www.atmia.com/conferences/europe/agenda/.