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Guillaume Lepecq
December 22, 2020
European Central Bank slams Italian Policy to Promote Digital Payments
The Italia Cashless initiative offers shoppers refunds on purchases made by cards as part on an ongoing campaign to discourage tax evasion. The ECB has complained that the programme is disproportionate and undermines the neutral approach to payments. It also creates a distortion within the European internal market.
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Guillaume Lepecq
December 21, 2020
Australia scraps Legislation restricting Cash Payments
A controversial law that would have banned cash payments over $10,000 has been voted out by the Australian Senate. Many saw it as infringing on the freedom to use cash and to protect one’s financial privacy.
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Guillaume Lepecq
October 26, 2020
How Cash is Reducing its Environmental Footprint
Climate change is the defining issue of our time. Limiting global warming to 1.5°C requires rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society. While the environmental footprint of cash is modest, several initiatives are aiming at reducing it further.
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Guillaume Lepecq
September 30, 2020
UK: Link ATM Network Launches new Pilot Cash-in-Shop Scheme to Facilitate Access to Cash
The pilot, jointly spearheaded by Link and PayPoint, enables consumers to make free cash withdrawals from participating convenience stores and is part of Link’s efforts to maintain access to cash in remote locations and in the most deprived areas in the UK.
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Guillaume Lepecq
September 18, 2020
Prosegur Goes Green and Introduces Hybrid and Electric Armoured Trucks
Prosegur Cash has launched a comprehensive sustainability plan with the aim of reducing the environmental impact of its activities. The company aims to achieve a 1.5% reduction in the direct CO2 emissions of its armoured fleet by 2020. To do so, the main levers are the hybridisation and electrification of their vehicles.
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Guillaume Lepecq
September 17, 2020
Christine Lagarde Shares Vision of Payments in a Digital World
ECB President Christine Lagarde gave a speech at the Deutsche Bundesbank Conference on online banking and payments in the digital world. The speech addresses cash, European sovereignty and central bank digital currencies.
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Guillaume Lepecq
September 01, 2020
India: Cash in Circulation Grew by 15% Last Year
According to the recently published Annual Report of the Reserve Bank of India, cash in circulation grew by 14.7% in value and 6.6% in volume between March 2020 and March 2019.
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Guillaume Lepecq
August 25, 2020
Who is Framing Cash?
The mythical war on cash is not new, far from it. It is however often unclear who is waging it. During the Covid-19 pandemic, some of the enemies of cash have become more outspoken.Here are some of those who want to get rid of cash.
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News
Guillaume Lepecq
October 26, 2020
How Cash is Reducing its Environmental Footprint
Climate change is the defining issue of our time. Limiting global warming to 1.5°C requires rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society. While the environmental footprint of cash is modest, several initiatives are aiming at reducing it further.
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Guillaume Lepecq
June 11, 2020
Spain: Cajamar delivers Cash to the Homes of the Elderly
Cajamar, the Spanish rural savings bank partners with local municipalities to facilitate access to cash for the elderly, without leaving their homes.
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Guillaume Lepecq
February 07, 2020
Reserve Bank of Australia to Facilitate the Redemption of Notes Damaged by Bushfires
Australians can submit damaged banknote claims, after which the Reserve Bank of Australia will determine the value of the damaged notes and provide compensation.
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Guillaume Lepecq
January 20, 2020
Loomis acquires Nokas Cash Handling Operation in Sweden
The European Cash Management sector sees further consolidation as Loomis has entered into an agreement to acquire Nokas Värdehantering, a Swedish subsidiary of Norway’s Nokas Kontandhåntering.
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Guillaume Lepecq
November 18, 2019
The British Retail Consortium calls for Action on Card Fees
The British Retail Consortium has published its latest Payment Survey which shows that credit card spending overtook cash spending in 2018. Debit cards remain the most popular method of payment, accounting for almost three-in-five transactions.
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Guillaume Lepecq
November 15, 2019
Will PEPSI displace Visa and MasterCard?
20 European banks are planning the launch of the Pan-European Payment System Initiative -PEPSI - to challenge the dominance of Visa and MasterCard in Europe and counter Big Tech firms.
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Guillaume Lepecq
November 01, 2019
UK: over 100 communities apply for new ATMs in a month
Early October, LINK the UK's main ATM network inroduced a £1 million fund to support the installation of free-to-use cash machines in remote communities. In less than a month, over 100 applications were received.
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Guillaume Lepecq
October 24, 2019
Royal Australian Mint launches the Great Aussie Coin Hunt
In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Australian Dollar, the Royal Australian Mint and Australia Post have launched a coin hunt, inviting children to collect 26 limited edition coins. The coins feature quintessentially Australian icons including didgeridoos, lamingtons and quokkas.
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Research & publications
Guillaume Lepecq
January 15, 2021
ECB analyses Foreign Demand for Euro Banknotes
The ECB paper ‘Foreign demand for euro banknotes’ provides a thorough analysis of the drivers for international demand and estimates that between 30 and 50% of the total value of banknotes circulate outside the euro zone.
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Guillaume Lepecq
October 12, 2020
Analysing the Determinants of Cash Demand
A new report by H.E. Reimers, F. Schneider and F. Seitz analyses the determinants of cash holdings of private households in the euro area between 2002 and 2019 and aims to shed light on the complex relationship between cash holdings on the one hand and transaction volumes, store of value motives, alternative payment instruments, the size of the shadow economy and crisis-related as well as precautionary demand on the other.
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Guillaume Lepecq
September 21, 2020
Fraud in Cash and Electronic Payments: Taxonomy, Estimation and Projections
The pandemic has seen a sharp acceleration in payment fraud. But this is not a new phenomenon. A report based on 2014-2018 data for 52 countries provides a comprehensive taxonomy of payment fraud for both cash and electronic payments and offers an empirical estimation of the value of fraud with cash and cards.
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Guillaume Lepecq
May 22, 2020
Webinar: The Future of Cash – Beyond Corona - Part I
During this webinar, our panel combining industry experts and futurists, discussed five tensions that will shape the future of cash and drafted a Futures Table, a tool for imagining radical futures. The session is the first part of a series of three webinars aimed at using Futures Literacy to imagine the Future of Cash. The second Webinar will be held on 9 June 2020 @ 14:00 CEST!
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Guillaume Lepecq
April 03, 2020
BIS Bolsters Trust in Cash
The Bank for International Settlements has published a report analyzing how the pandemic has fueled public concerns that the coronavirus may be spread by cash: "Covid-19, cash, and the future of payments". The pandemic could broaden the divide in access to payment instruments and negatively impact the most vulnerable people.
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Guillaume Lepecq
January 24, 2020
Alternatives to Sleepwalking (or Stampeding) into a Cashless Society
A new White Paper investigates the attitudes, challenges and concerns driven by the ever-increasing pace of society’s movement away from physical cash. It looks too at the innovations and developments that are taking place that may enable the benefits of cash to persist in a more digital world.
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Guillaume Lepecq
November 08, 2019
New study finds that cash is cheapest payment instrument
A new study analyses the cost of cash compared to debit cards across 52 countries. It identifies and estimates the resource and private costs to determine the total social cost for both payment instruments, for consumers and retailers. The results show that the unit cost of debit cards is 2.8 times larger than the cost of cash globally.
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Guillaume Lepecq
November 04, 2019
European Payments Council: to Improve the Efficiency of Cash, Recirculate
The European Payments Council publishes a revised version of its Recirculation Paper first published in June 2018. The paper aims to foster further cash efficiency particularly within the retail cash cycle, between consumers retailers and Payments Service Providers.
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