The CashMoney in physical form such as banknotes and coins. More & Crises Podcast from CashEssentials: Conversations with experts on major issues facing the use of cash by societies in crisis.

In our second episode of the Cash and Crises podcast series, James Shepherd-Barron, sits down with Diederik Bruggink, Head of Innovation and Payments at the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute, to discuss why 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 matters and its implications for developing economies.

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Who controls the cash supply? How does it work in normal times and who ensures that the innovation of cash benefits everyone? How does innovation create a more efficient and sustainable cash cycle?

Here are three key takeaways:

• Cash is essential for the proper functioning of the national economy
• Innovation can shorten the supply chain and reduce costs
• Central banks have a major role in maintaining liquidityDescribes the extent to which assets or rights can be converted into cash without causing a significant decrease in the asset’s price. Accordingly, liquidity is often inversely proportional to the profitability of the asset and involves the trade-off between the selling price and the time needed to convert it to cash. In finance, cash is considered the most liquid asset and cash is sometimes used as a synonym for liquidity (e.g. cash reserves; cash pooling…). More

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