This section, curated by Dan Littman, former senior payments advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, provides links to articles on cash, money, and retail payments.

Esta sección, editada por Dan Littman, ex asesor principal de pagos del Banco de la Reserva Federal de Cleveland, ofrece enlaces a artículos sobre efectivo, dinero y pagos al menudeo.

November 15 – December 1, 2023

• Afghanistan – the burning of old banknotes
• Are telecom failures good for cash?
• Argentine artist paints on inflation-hit notes
• Asia/Pacific – 97% of Asia Pacific travellers opt to go cashless when travelling
• Australia needs ‘pretty innovative’ ways to keep cash flowing amid concerns for cash transport industry
• Australia – Cash payments continue to decline as Aussies move to electronic methods
• Australia – banks want to band together to assure cash supplies.
• Automated Teller Machine Market to Reach $50 billion, Globally, by 2032 at 8.6% CAGR
• Bangladesh – toward cashless
• Banknote Processing Machines Market analysis
• Banknotes Security Ink Market Report
• BearingPoint: Cash is number one in Europe – digital euro should be fast, secure, & accepted everywhere.
• Canada – love/hate relationship with cash
• Cash, a dinosaur with longevity
• Cash or cashless
• Cashless sucks – It’s not in the interests of the ordinary person but it’s not a conspiracy either. A cashless society is a system run amok.
• Currency Research – Cash & Payments Use Around the World: A Review of Consumer Payment Choice, 12/7/2023.
• Cyprus – Driver tries to pay fine in 15,500 coins
• Denmark Scraps Largest Banknote as Cash Use Dwindles
• Egypt – ATM for gold bars
• Enhancing the user experience with ATM technology.
• Euro notes to get a facelift
• Female trailblazers on global currency.
• Germany -Nearly 8,000 medieval coins and 7 Bronze Age swords unearthed in Germany
• Ghana – E-cedi to bridge gap between banked and unbanked
• Goa – Ancient Copper Coins From Portuguese Era Discovered In Goa
• How World War II Created Strange and Unusual Coins
• India – RBI says ₹2,000 banknotes worth ₹9,760 crore still in circulation
• India – Cashless transactions causing hurdles for small industries.
• India – How nine-member gang breached banking system to withdraw cash using fingerprint cloning.
• Italy – 3,000 Roman coins and gems unearthed at ‘magical place’ in northern Italy
• Jamaica – central bank launches counterfeit detection campaign
• Jamaica – NCB says all its iABMs able to take new banknotes
• Jamaica – 70% of notes in circulation have polymer substrate.
• Japan – Hoard of 100,000 centuries-old coins discovered in Japan
• Kazakhstan – 40^th anniversary of national currency
• Lebanon – new banknotes
• Macau – 3 arrested for counterfeiting
• Making Medieval Money.
• Meta Materials Receives Two International Hologram Manufacturers Association -IHMA Awards
• Mexico – how much does it cost to make a banknote.
• Morocco – new banknotes & coins
• New Zealand – counterfeits
• New Zealand – jail for crude counterfeits
• Nigeria – old naira notes are still legal tender
• Nigeria – CBN Directs Banks To Issue, Accept Old, Redesigned Banknotes
• Pakistan – Archaeologists unearthed a pot of copper coins in first major discovery at Mohenjo Daro in Pakistan, in 93 years
• Pakistan – central bank will not scrap Rs5000 note
• Philippines – new note featuring a bird that may be going extinct
• Philippines – fighting counterfeits
• Poland – Treasure hoard of Silesian bracteates found in Szprotawa
• Singapore – cashless payments
• Thailand – counterfeit money scam
• Trinidad & Tobago – toward cashless.
• Try Not to Spend Your Annoying Pennies, It Adds Up – People spend coin money just to rid the nuisance of carrying them around.
• UAE – polymer substate banknote
• UK – The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins – How Yorkshire’s Yellow Trade of coin clippers and counterfeiters changed Britain’s economy in the 18th century.
• UK Couple Finds Rare Gold Coins Worth $850,000 Under Kitchen
• UK – Metal detectorist searching countryside stumbles on ancient Roman treasure in Wales.
• UK – British Shopkeepers & the Fear of £50 Notes.
• Uganda – central bank bans banknote gifts
• Uganda – Mobile Money, Perception about Cash, and Financial Inclusion: Learning from Uganda’s Micro-Level Data
• US – BEP printed record numbers of $50s
• US – This Silver Dollar Coin From 1794 Is Worth $10M
• US – The Innocent Greenbacks Abroad: US Currency Held Internationally.
• US/California – about cashless retail businesses
• US/DC – cashless ban
• US/Florida – woman tries to swallow her counterfeit stash during arrest
• US/Wisconsin – Cashless donations accepted for red kettles
• US/Wisconsin – legislation that would make taking cash payments mandatory for retailers.

November 4 – 15, 2023

• 1 in 3 executives anticipate their home country to go “cashless” as soon as 2028
• 58% of consumers have reduced cash transactions since the pandemic
• Australia – banknote history
• Australia – cashless & cashier-less at Coles
• Azerbaijan approves new rules governing reproduction of national banknotes
• Bangladesh – toward cashless
• Banknote recycling remains limited at most central banks
• Banknotes rarely portray current monarchs or presidents
• Canada – banknote history
• Cash is dead, long live cash.
• Cash is king no more: The trend towards lighter pockets.
• Cash is no longer king: How does that impact us personally & culturally?
• China – banknote history
• China – cashless payments
• Croatia – Still have Croatian kuna? What your options are now to change them
• Despite tech advances is cash still the most preferred payment option on international trips?
• Dubai – toward cashless
• Falklands planning to redesign new themes on the Islands’ banknotes; public consultations
• Grab – cashless payments
• India & Sweden – tale of 2 cash economies.
• India – Banknote Ban Creates Trouble for Indians
• India – fintechs & financial inclusion
• India – 23 bundles of US dollars found by a ragpicker turn out to be counterfeit
• India – Rise in fake currency, cash in circulation: 7 years of demonetisation
• Isle of Man – the end of small change?
• Italy – 30,000 ancient coins found underwater off Italy in “exceptional” condition — possibly from a 4th-century shipwreck
• Jamaica – BOJ temporarily suspends acceptance of Trinidad & Tobago currency.
• Japan – Hoard of 100,000 Ancient Coins Unearthed at Building Site
• Kazakhstan – Tenge Turns 30: Astana Exhibition Marks Viability of Kazakhstan’s National Currency
• Kosovo – counterfeit euros
• Meta Materials Announces Results from Strategic Restructuring, Focus on Growth Priorities
• Mexico – What happens to the banknotes that are about to go out of circulation in 2023?
• NCR & Diebold & improvements to ATMs
• New Zealand – banknote history
• Nigeria central bank says old bank notes to remain legal tender
• Pakistan – State Bank of Pakistan Implements Uniform Standards for Banknote Sorting Parameters
• Poland – A team of metal detectorists from the Szczecin Search Group Association have uncovered a treasure hoard consisting of American dollars and Russian rubles in the forests near Szczecin, Poland.
• Sorting Cash Machine Market Growth to Hit 3.7% CAGR, Globally, by 2028
• South Africa – banknote history
• South Africa – digital surge transforming the informal economy.
• Sweden – toward cashless
• Swiss Banknote Printer Goes All In On Digital IDs
• UK – cashless & branchless?
• UK – Queen Camilla rewears crown that appears on UK banknotes at first King’s Speech
• UK – Scottish banknote scam
• UK – I’m the first woman to lead Royal Mint in 1,100 years: How Anne Jessop aims to strike gold
• US – banknote history
• US cash usage may have hit its floor, says Boston Fed.
• US/DC – cashless retail
• US/Florida – counterfeiting operation in a hotel room
• US – 12 Extinct US Coins That Are Worth Thousands
• US – why it won’t change physical cash
• US – Bitcoin ATMs in malls
• Vending machine market size to grow by $12.42b, 2022 – 2027; Growth driven by increasing demand for cashless vending machines.
• Zimbabwe – Cash may no longer be king, but the Optus debacle shows it is still necessary
• Zimbabwe – fake US currency

October 30 – November 4, 2023

• Afghanistan – burning of old notes
• Ancient Greece – coin history
• Australia – toward cashless
• Bangladesh – Cashless society to expedite country’s dev, ease revenue collection: PM.
• Banknote Processing Machines Market
• Bitcoin ATM future
• Bulgaria – from domestic currency notes to the euro
• Colorado business pays debt with more than 3 tons of coins: “A major F-U” says recipient
• Counterfeit Gold Coins Filled With Platinum: Hollow Gold
• Digital payments & financial inclusion
• Federal Reserve Order for Banknotes in 2024 Peaks at 6.9 Billion
• Fewer than 100 staff work in currency divisions on average
• Guyana – ATM scam
• India – counterfeiters arrested
• India – cash & cashless, post-pandemic
• India – toward cashless
• India – status of Rs2000 note recall
• India – Rs 2,000 notes legal tender, but rush to exchange them grows
• Ireland – are fears of the cashless society exaggerated?
• Isle of Man – low value coins
• Jamaica – not going cashless
• Less-Cash or More-Cash? Determinants & Trends of Currency in Circulation in a Panel of 17 Economies
• Macau – New banknotes with fresh anti-counterfeiting tech to enter circulation in Q1 2024
• Malaysia – cashless adoption will reach 95% in 2025
• Malaysia – counterfeit currency
• Nigeria – Naira scarcity escalates in Nigeria amid impending old banknote deadline
• Pakistan – Cash demand surges in Pakistan amidst global shift to digital payments
• Philippines – Govt warns on refusal to use centavo coins, folded notes
• Poland – Further Coins Found at Wiślica
• Sardinia – Tens of thousands of ancient coins have been found off Sardinia. They may be spoils of a shipwreck
• Scandinavia – 90% of Nordic consumers use contactless as cash continues to decline
• South Africa – counterfeits
• Sweden – Riksbank calls for urgent law to safeguard cash as usage falls
• UK – Pay in cash to save us crippling card fees, plead retailers
• UK – Bid to keep town ATM after bank closure falling on deaf ears
• US – cashless & the financial literacy of kids

October 22 – 30, 2023

Afghanistan – 180.4m afs old banknotes set alight in Kandahar

Argentina – Conditional Cash Transfers, Debit Cards & Financial Inclusion: Experimental Evidence from Argentina.

Australia – toward cashless.

Australia – Consumers freaking out after car dealership imposes extra fee for paying in cash

Canada – ATMs & convenience stores.

Czech Republic – new note

Death of the purse as shoppers ditch cash for card & phone payments.

Federal Reserve announces broad availability of E-Manifest service to bring greater transparency, efficiency to US cash supply chain.

New Zealand – toward cashless.

New Zealand – toward cashless 2.

Saint-Gaudens ‘Victory’ First Study Up for Bid – Augustus Saint- created the First Study for the Head of Victory in 1897.

Tanzania – Mobile money users in Tanzania are going back to cash payments to avoid high transaction charges.

The disabled & cashless

The move to a cashless society isn’t just a possibility, it’s well underway

UK – fake Scottish notes

US – Theft of 2 million dimes from truckload of coins from US Mint leaves four facing federal charges.

Wales – Coins found buried in Welsh field turn out to be 2,000-year-old Roman treasure.

Welcome to the cashless dystopia.

October 15 – 21, 2023

• 11 Countries That Make Tourists Go Cashless for Most Payments
• Argentina – A $500 million cash pile at Argentina’s main airport unnerves banks
• Asia – toward cashless
• Australia – Banking’s big change: Branches, ATMs slashed in cash push.
• Australia – authorized deposit taking institutions, points-of-presence statistics
• Australia – MP Keith Wolahan’s dark warning of the consequences of a cashless society as hundreds of bank branches close across Australia: ‘They could switch off your banking just like that’
• Canada – A salute to ATMs as they slowly fade into irrelevance.
• Canada – counterfeits
• Europe – ECB Pushes for Ban on Cash Exclusion Amid Declining Acceptance in Euro Zone
• Global Bitcoin ATM numbers sink to lowest level since 2021.
• Glory & Kinective Collaborate to Certify Core Integration for GLR-100 Teller Cash Recycler.
• Hong Kong Monetary Authority admits short-changing buyers of shredded banknote paperweights found to be light on cash content
• How coins are made
• India – RBI not re-introducing Rs 1000 note
• Indonesia – currency history
• Japan – currency history
• Latin America – counterfeit dollar notes
• Libya – central bank considering withdrawal of old notes
• Malaysia – currency history
• Nepal – new banknotes
• Nepal – counterfeits
• Netherlands – ATMs break down more often than agreed, cash is hard to come by
• Nigeria – Currency Redesign: CBN Only Printed N402bn New Naira Notes
• Nigeria’s Currency Designs.
• Rare coins give a glimpse into chemical industry history
• Researchers help study and catalog museum’s ancient Greek coins
• Russia – Syuyumbike Tower on new 1.000 banknote
• Russia halts circulation of new ruble note after complaints from priests.
• Scotland – An Archaeology Student Has Uncovered a Rare Cache of 17th-Century Coins Hidden Under a Fireplace
• Singapore – Gojek to implement transaction fee up to 60 cents for cashless payments starting Nov 1
• South Africa – R2000 notes are safe to accept
• Tanzania – BoT cautions banks, forex bureaux on counterfeit US dollar notes.
• Thailand – Money mishap: Thai woman’s 20 baht note goes ‘choo-choo’ in the frying pan.
• The move to a cashless society isn’t just a possibility, it’s well underway.
• UK – Shiny new coins to teach numeracy? I doubt kids will give a toss
• UK – Sheffield drug dealer filmed himself covered in banknotes.
• US -Most Valuable Wheat Pennies
• US – Fort Worth prints over half the nation’s currency.
• US/Florida – Pair turned $1 bills into fake $100 bills with help of bleach and a printer, feds say
• US/West Virginia – counterfeits
• Wales – Discovery of buried coins in Wales turns out to be Roman treasure: “Huge surprise”
• Zambia – counterfeits

October 8 – 15, 2023

• Air Canada sued for ‘negligence’ after thieves stole $17 million in gold & cash by merely showing fraudulent documents to pick up the cargo
• Australia’s demonetized mutilated currency found its way back into circulation as counterfeits.
• Borneo – toward cashless
• Canada – A salute to ATMs as they slowly fade into irrelevance
• Cash is the only payments system that works.
• De La Rue lifts profit expectations as demand recovers
• De La Rue – WorldRemit founder challenges De La Rue’s $9.6m Somaliland contract
• Democracy & Cash: The Tool Against Authoritarianism
• Egypt – cashless transactions
• Europe – 30 billion banknotes are printed in Europe but 80% have been hidden & never used
• Flipped coins found not to be as fair as thought
• How will the cashless society affect ATMs
• India – These Cities Print Currency Notes & Mint Coins In India
• India – counterfeits
• India – Irate customers throw torn banknotes in air at RBI office in Bhubaneswar
• Kyrgyzstan – National Bank exchanges shabby banknotes
• Liberia – The Price of Printing Currencies
• Mongolia – currency history
• Netherlands – 4 arrested for allegedly blowing up German ATMs
• Oumolat, SICPA to Print Enhanced Tax Stamps
• Pakistan – Both blue, green colour Rs75 banknotes legal tender
• Portugal – Alves Reis & the banknote crisis of 1925
• South Africa – cash in transit heists & the cashless society
• South Africa Reserve Bank pioneers accessibility measures on banknotes for disabled individuals
• Spectra Systems wins large order from central bank customer
• Teaching Kids About Money in a Cashless Economy.
• Thailand – Convenience store’s refusal to accept taped banknotes sparks online controversy
• Uganda – Survey records drop in bank branches, ATMs
• UK – Rare £5 bank note issued in Leeds sells for £32k at auction
• UK – removing ATMs
• US – is US currency waterproof?
• US – N.C. man, woman plead guilty to roles in counterfeit currency conspiracy in W.Va.
• US/Connecticut – Man Who Found Bag of Cash & Claimed Finders-Keepers Pays Back Town, Felony Charge Dropped
• Venezuela – counterfeit dollars

October 1 – 8, 2023

• Afghanistan – new notes
• Australia – Charles III on coins
• Australia – RBA note printing arm posts a surplus
• Bangladesh – toward cashless
• Bangladesh – What happens when the Taka note ends its journey?
• Brazil – Rediscovering Brazilian hyperinflation banknotes
• Bulgaria – 700-year-old coin depicting Jesus and medieval king discovered
• De La Rue upgrades full-year guidance
• Demand for cash under uncertainty: a global update
• France – Stunning Ultra-Rare 1894 French Gold Coin from Coveted KJR Collection Rocks Heritage’s World Coins Event
• Germany – Coins Reminder of Unsuccessful Revolt
• India – cost of note printing
• India – The curious case of govt-owned Bank Note Paper Mill’s private status
• India – Deadline to exchange Rs 2000 banknotes over; what are the options left?
• India – Why Do Indian Banknotes Feature Mahatma Gandhi & How Did the Practice Start
• India – 5 arrested in fake currency case
• Iraq Asked for $1 Billion in Cash. This Time, Washington Said No
• Iraq to end all dollar cash withdrawals by Jan. 1, 2024, central-bank official says
• Ireland – Killing cash will make us all poorer
• JCM Global Establishes Strategic Partnership With Giesecke+Devrient
• Koenig & Bauer & BIRKAN Strengthen Commitment to the Consumables Segment & Introduces New Printing Blanket
• Liberia – Central Bank of Liberia to End Legal Tender Status of Old Banknotes as of March 31, 2024
• Mexico – Estos billetes con la imagen de Cuauhtémoc se venden juntos en más de 680 mil pesos en línea
• Nigeria – 10 times Nigeria has changed currencies since independence
• No cash, no more
• Northern Ireland – polymer notes
• Pakistan – transitioning away from the cash economy
• Roman Empire – How plundered Gaulish silver ended up in Roman coins
• Scotland – counterfeits
• South Africa – R200 notes are safe to accept as payment
• South Africa – ATM bombings on the rise as gangs carry off bags of dye-stained banknotes
• Syria – Denominations of Syrian pound are out of circulation; Waiting for 10,000 banknote
• The 11 Most Beautiful World Currencies
• UK – Going Cashless: My Experience of a Week Without Physical Currency
• UK – When the banks leave town – a banking desert in North Wales
• UK – Link annual report, 2022-2023, protecting access to cash
• UK – Rare 123-year old £5 note goes up for auction
• UK – 3 arrested in dawn crackdown of suspected counterfeit notes production and circulation in Greater Manchester
• US falls in new ‘financial inclusion’ ranking, a global measure of access to financial services
• US – How cashless payments are transforming the shopping experience
• US – High denomination notes reaching higher prices in auctions
• US – Why American Currency Can Only Feature Images of Dead People
• US/California – LA & cashless retail
• US/DC – ban on cashless retail
• US/Kansas – Wild West era cash once considered worthless finds new value with collectors
• Zimbabwe – Informal Traders, Kombis Reject ZWL$50 Banknotes

September 24 – 30, 2023

• Australia – outrage as KFC outlets go cashless
• Australia – New South Wales hands out invitations to help draft cashless regulations
• Cameroon – counterfeits
• Greece – Rare early Greek bank notes at MDC Monaco
• India – banknote history
• Indians have 5 days to deposit $3 billion in soon-to-be-withdrawn banknotes
• India – RBI extends deadline to exchange Rs 2,000 banknotes to October 7
• India – counterfeits
• Koenig & Bauer Banknote Solutions S.A. partners with friSense Technologies Limited to Innovate the Cash Cycle
• Latvia – “Payment Radar”: the ratio of non-cash to cash payments in Latvia is 73% to 27%
• Malawi – woman arrested for destroying notes
• Malaysia – Canteen Staff Washes Money After Sales, Showcases Just How Dirty Money Really Is
• Meta Materials Receives $6.2 Million in New Purchase Orders from Its G10 Central Bank Customer
• Nigeria – the human story behind Nigeria’s notes
• Norway – He needed a hobby. A metal detector led him to ancient Norwegian gold
• Philippines – BSP cites key role of informal sector for a cashless society
• Scotland – financial inclusion & cash
• Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale Bank and Bank of Scotland are all pulling the paper £100 from circulation
• Spectra Systems Pretax Profit Rises on Higher Banknote Demand
• The future of payments, charting the course to a cashless future?
• UK – Cash is still king for independent retailers
• UK – Regulation Tomorrow Plus: Access To Cash (Podcast)
• UK is ripe for cashless payments with more than 50% of consumers already paying with digital wallets
• UK – Fraudsters steal £700,000 from Royal Mint in online heist as Labour warns ‘the parasites are going unpunished’
• Ukraine – The exchange of small coins and old hryvnia banknotes continued until the end of the war
• US – Money Matters: Revealing Who Is Holding Billions of US Banknotes
• US/DC – cashless retail
• US/Georgia – cashless retail

September 17 – 23, 2023

• Artist who pocketed banknotes from his own artwork loses court case
• Australia – toward cashless
• Australia – why banknotes are changing
• Bitbuy Technologies partners with Localcoin for crypto ATMs
• CBDCs & financial inclusion
• Euro banknote redesign slated for 2024
• India – Encourage non-bank ATMs to boost financial inclusion
• India – Rs 2,000 notes no longer accepted as payment on Amazon
• India – 10 year term for counterfeiting
• Jamaica – Hayles urges Gov’t to withdraw ‘confusing’ banknotes
• Kosovo so awash with fake euro coins they are accepted as payment
• Libya floods: why cash is the best way to help get humanitarian aid to people affected by disasters
• Meta Materials revolutionizes authentication with NanoOptic Banknote security products
• Nigeria – going cashless?
• Pakistan – counterfeiting
• Philippine banknotes resilient to forgery
• Philippines – Airport security officer tried to swallow S$410 she stole from passenger
• Philippines – Consumers split between cashless & cash payments
• Poland – Customs officials find pensioner with stash of gold coins worth 1.5million zł hidden inside her clothing
• South Africa – crypto ATMs
• Sweden – toward cashless
• Synergy Between Cashless Payments & Seamless Mobile Coverage
• UK – A note of caution about the withdrawal of cash
• UK – ‘It’s easier to budget’: people on why they swapped cards for cash
• US – What’s behind the most expensive US coin? It was auctioned for $18.9 million in 2021
• US Mint Produces 1 Billion Coins in August; Highest Kennedy Mintages Since 2001
• US – 1934 $10,000 Bill Sells for $480,000
• US – 60% of Americans expect all payments to become digital
• US/North Carolina – $100k falls off armored truck
• Vietnam – Damaged money collectors profit on broken bills

September 12 – 17, 2023

• Argentina – Paintings on pesos illustrate Argentina’s currency and inflation woes
• ATM population in the US shows strong growth over the past year
• Australia – Macquarie Bank phasing out cash in 2024
• Australia – Money expert predicts ‘ATM rationing’ is coming to Australia as the banks go cashless.
• Capgemini – Global Non-Cash Transaction Volumes Set to Reach 1.3 Trillion in 2023
• Cash is here to stay
• Cryptocurrency ATM market to grow by $2.37b from 2021 to 2026
• Denmark – reduced access to ATMs
• Forget cashless – cash is the only payment system that works
• India – UPI-ATMs: Is it the beginning of the end for debit cards?
• Isle of Man – redesign of banknotes & coins
• Jamaica – Scotiabank ATMs to be ready to accept & dispense polymer substate notes
• Nigeria – How Acting Central Bank Governor, Shonubi’s Report Justified Naira Swap Policy Under Suspended Gov
• Nine currencies that no longer exist
• Sweden – Cash for Transactions or Store-of-Value? A comparative study on Sweden & peer countries
• UK – Cash payments rise for first time in 10 years
• UK – Old £5 banknote set to sell for eye-watering price at 3,200 times its original value
• US – The Continental Dollar – How the American Revolution Was Financed with Paper Money

September 3 – 12, 2023

• Austria lags behind European counterparts on cashless payment
• Banknote Market Trends Report 2023-2030
• “Banknote money remains the currency of trust” Interview with Éric Boissonnas, Koenig & Bauer Banknote Solutions (KBBS)
• Coal mining & toll scrip
• Cuba – new notes
• Cuba begins program for gradual elimination of cash payments at service centers.
• De La Rue Currency Now on the Brink of Collapse?
• Euro banknotes as we know them will disappear, Europe wants to replace them
• Europe – Forecasting banknote circulation during the COVID-19 pandemic using structural time series models
• France – is it illegal to refuse cash?
• G20 policy recommendations for advancing financial inclusion through digital financial infrastructure
• Germany – Rare Celtic Gold Coin
• Heart of England Co-op endorses the Volumatic CCi
• India – counterfeits
• India’s Financial Inclusion Rate Rose By 80% In 6 Years
• India – Bank Of Baroda Enables UPI ATM Facility At Over 6,000 ATMs
• Is it true photocopy machines cannot detect banknotes?
• Jamaica – cashless payments.
• Meta Materials Launches World’s First Fully Animated Nano-Optic Banknote Security Product
• Nigeria – ‘N400b new notes, N2.2tr old notes in circulation’
• Northern Ireland £50 and £100 paper banknotes being withdrawn from circulation this month
• Norway – Amateur Archaeologist Uncovers Historic Gold
• Pakistan – Govt rejects reports of ban on Rs5000 banknote
• Payments trends: Are we moving towards a cashless society?
• Qatar – toward cashless
• Slovakia adds right to cash payments in constitution over digital euro fears
• Small change vs the environment.
• South Korea – toward cashless
• Sri Lanka – Rs. 207.3 bn worth of defaced banknotes destroyed in 2022
• UK Finance, Cash industry environmental work.
• UK – ‘I will rue the day’: Southend shoppers weigh in on the cash vs card debate.
• UK – Majority of free-to-use ATMs at risk.
• US – ATM fees
• US – BEP & bees
• US – The $1,000 Bill Worth $250,000
• US/Georgia – on cashless retail in Atlanta
• US/New York – cashless tolling
• US/Ohio – counterfeits in Toledo
• US/Texas – Thousands of dollars stolen from Texas ATMs using Raspberry Pi
• US/Washington – making retailers take cash
• Vietnam – cashless payments

August 29 – September 3, 2023

• ATM fees hit high of $4.73.
• Canada – CBDCs To Usher In A Cashless Future, Overthrowing Traditional Banking
• De La Rue braces for backlash over boss
• Egypt – financial inclusion
• Germany Is hopelessly addicted to cash – Why Europe’s biggest economy won’t make the switch to paying with cards.
• History of the gold standard
• India – 93% of Rs2000 notes have been returned since withdrawal announcement
• India – counterfeit seizure
• Jordan – new notes
• Kenya – financial inclusion
• Meta Materials Receives New Purchase Order from its G10 Central Bank Customer
• Nigeria – financial inclusion
• Nigeria – CBN, banks investigate suspected $1b currency counterfeiting
• South African police say 18 suspected robbers killed in shootout – Police say suspects were planning a cash truck heist & were responsible for similar crimes elsewhere in the country.
• South Africa -financial inclusion
• Switzerland – Ancient Roman walls & coins discovered in Swiss Alps are an ‘archaeological sensation’
• Switzerland – cash as a constitutional right
• The Global State of Financial Inclusion & Consumer Protection
• Turkmenistan reveals latest data on number of ATMs countrywide
• UK – No 2p coins were produced last year
• UK – London turning cashless faster than rest of UK
• UK – Tory government will not force retailers to take cash
• UK – Roman coins find in Buckinghamshire declared treasure
• US Mint drops ‘in God we trust’ on new liberty coin
• US – Ultra-Rare $1,000 Bank Note From 1918 Could Fetch Over $250,000 at Auction
• US – Average out-of-network ATM fees up by a penny
• US/Missouri – ATM bombing
• US/South Dakota – ATM larceny
• When & Why Did Paper Currency Begin to Be Highly Used in the United States?

August 20 – 29, 2023

• A lucrative crime’: Cyber thieves trick ATMs into giving them cash
• Africa – cashless payments
• ATM Slide Rails Market size to grow by USD 283.15 million from 2022 to 2027 | Self-service cash recycling will drive growth
• Australia’s transition to a cashless society raises concerns about financial exclusion, privacy & safety
• Bangladesh – 4 counterfeiters arrested
• China – Former Banknote Printing Corp board director under investigation for corruption
• Diebold Nixdorf Expands DN Series Offerings to Address Enduring Use of Cash
• Germany – 8-year-old unearths Roman-era silver coin in school sandbox
• Global Cardless ATM Market Soars to $5.2 Billion by 2031, Driven by Increased Smartphone Penetration and Convenience
• Health benefits of financial inclusion
• India – 3 counterfeiters arrested
• Jamaica – BoJ developing protocols to handle faulty bank notes
• Jamaica – ATMs & the new notes
• Kuwait – history of the dinar
• Looney Tunes – We’re in the Money
• Looney Tunes – Milk & Money
• Looney Tunes – The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
• PaymentVision advocates for consumer choice: launches campaign urging billers to offer “Pay by Cash: Walk-in Payments” options
• Philippines – BSP beefs up drive on unfit bills, mutilated coins
• Philippines – new, more durable notes
• Poland – Archaeologists Discover 1,000-Year-Old Silver Coins at Medieval Fortress
• Rise in Next-Generation ATMs & Distribution on Bank Premises Sparks Globak Cardless ATM Market Growth to 2031
• Scotland – counterfeits
• Seigniorage: The last roll of the dice for cash
• The concept of Underbanked in Developed countries
• UK – proof we need our cash machines
• UK – Can taxi drivers accept & reject old banknotes as payment?
• UK – Digesting the Digits – UK Treasury sets out ‘3-mile cash rule.’
• US – counterfeit collectable coins
• US – toward cashless.
• US/California – LA may ban cashless businesses
• What makes a good banknote?
• Zambia-Egypt plane seizure: The cash and fake gold that no-one is claiming

August 13 – 19, 2023

• Analysis of cashless economy, demand for money & price determination : A possibility for implementation in Nigeria.
• Ancient Gold Coins Minted 1,400 Years Apart Unearthed in Same Field
• Armenia – $4.2 Million Stolen from Armenian Bank’s ATMs
• Australia – going cashless?
• Australia – ATM skimming
• Bangladesh – ATM assembly plant
• Cash logistics market size to grow by $20.26 billion from 2022 to 2027; Growing preference for outsourcing cash management services by financial institutions to boost market growth
• Europe – farcical redesign of the euro
• Hungary – Will the smallest Hungarian coin be phased out and replaced by a new banknote?
• India – fintechs & financial inclusion
• Indonesia – BI Claims Rupiah Banknotes Have World’s Best Design
• Ireland – People rush to ATMs after windfall from Bank of Ireland app glitch
• Jordan – new banknote
• Malawi – counterfeits
• New Zealand – counterfeits
• Nigeria – redenomination of the naira?
• South Africa – spelling error on banknote rectified
• South Korea – automated vault at BOK
• Spain – fake euros
• Tunisia – Five 2,300-Year-Old Gold Coins and Infant Remains Found at Ancient Cemetery
• UK – Financial Services & Markets Act 2023 gives FCA new powers to protect access to cash
• UK – Don’t Kill Cash campaign hits massive 300,000 signature goal as GB News to deliver letter to Parliament
• UK – Metal detectorists find 2,000-year-old Iron Age gold treasure in Welsh first.
• UK – How banks & shops joined the conspiracy against cash.
• UK – cash crusaders trying to save money one pint at a time.
• UK – Fears UK’s cashless society will leave more than just the vulnerable behind.
• UK three historic British coins showing Henry VII on a throne, a 20-year-old Queen Victoria and Charles I holding a sword and olive branch are tipped to sell for nearly £1million altogether
• Uncertainty, politics, & crises: The case for cash.
• US Mint coin production through July 2023
• US – Modernizing the cash supply chain with the FedCash E-Manifest Service.
• US – 1 in 5 Americans say, “Cash is king.”
• US – High-fee crypto ATMs center around low-income parts of Kansas City
• US – Cash operations at FRB Richmond
• US/Alaska alleges ‘widespread fraud’ by Anchorage ATM business serving villages and small businesses
• Wales – Metal Detectorists Discover 2,000-Year-Old Gold Coins in Wales – The 15 artifacts are the first Iron Age gold coins ever found in the country

August 6 – 12, 2023

• Afghanistan – collecting worn out notes
• Archeology: Eight-year-old boy finds 1,800-year-old Roman coin in Bremen while playing
• Argentina will move from importing to exporting banknotes around the world
• Argentina considers dollarization
• Armenia – shortage of notes
• Australia – Backlash grows over banks’ push to turn Australia into a cashless society as branches close and more restrictions are placed on how you can access your cash
• Australia – the war on cash
• Bureau of Engraving & Printing – bees found at new print site are rehomed
• Cash Depot Announces the Future of Retail Cash Management & Consumer Financial Services
• CEO of World’s Largest Bitcoin ATM Operator Sees Industry Ripe for Consolidation
• Cubans wary of banks as government cracks down on cash
• Europe – design themes for new euros
• India – currency in circulation
• India – RBI’s user friend technology focus on UPI in move towards cashless economy
• India1 Payments to look beyond white label ATMs
• Iran – Money Printing Soared by 83%, Liquidity 73% during Raisi’s Tenure
• Jamaica – music about the new polymer substrate notes
• Kazakhstan – cashless payments
• Laundries – Payment Trends: What are the Options?
• Nagorno-Karabakh experiences cash shortage
• NCR expands ATM network in Portugal
• Nigeria – 60% of bank customers unsatisfied with ATM cash dispense error
• Q&A with Helena Müller from Diebold Nixdorf
• Royal Canadian Mint’s 5 oz. pure silver coin – Canadian ghost ship wins coin of the year award in the most innovative category
• Turkey – Smallest denomination banknote cannot buy one loaf of bread
• UK – The Great Train Robbery 60 years on – what actually happened and where are the robbers now?
• UK – NatWest imposes new cash limits in latest de-banking row
• UK – Norfolk businesses overwhelmingly reject cashless model
• UK – negative impact of decline in branches & ATMs
• US – More scammers are targeting bank-owned ATMs: FICO
• What cash discounts tell us about payment defaults

July 26 – August 6, 2023

• Austria – Paying in cash may become constitutional right for Austrians
• Automatic note detector market
• Barbados – toward cashless
• BEP  – More than 25 thousand honeybees found at Bureau of Engraving and Printing demo project re-homed in Baltimore
• Challenges in a cashless society
• Cuba bans company access to ATMs, limits cash transactions
• Cyprus – counterfeits
• DeLaRue – leadership changes
• DeLaRue – history
• Estonia – coins in circulation
• Evolution of ATMs
• History of money
• Independent ATM operators receive approval to move ahead with antitrust case against Visa, Mastercard
• India – health ATMs
• India – 88% of Rs2000 notes returned to banks, RBI.
• India – This artist’s hyperrealistic artwork of Indian banknotes stuns netizens
• India – counterfeits
• Israel – banknotes flyring out a window
• Jamaica – notes for the blind
• Japan considering restricting senior citizens’ access to ATMs
• Meeting the changing needs of underbanked populations
• Myanmar – new note
• Nigeria – notes in circulation
• Norway – toward cashless
• Portuguese street artist rolls out ‘banknote’ carpet to protest pope’s visit
• Security paper market
• Sweden – toward cashless
• UK – King Charles on the banknotes
• US – These $100 bills are worth way more than a standard Benjamin
• Vietnam – toward cashless

July 21 – 25, 2023

• Australia – toward cashless
• Azerbaijan – cashless street parking
• Bangladesh – BB’s clean note policy
• Canada – cashless convenience store in Edmonton
• Counterfeit Coin Detection Market Projected to Gain Significant Value by 2030
• Czech Republic – 2,300-year-old glass workshop littered with Celtic coins is oldest known north of the Alps
• Eastern Caribbean – central bank dropping Queen Elizabeth II from notes
• Egypt – digital banking & the cashless future
• Germany – ATM bombings
• Germany – 500-Year-Old Gold Coins Hidden by Monk in German Monastery Just Discovered by Archaeologists
• Hyosung Innovue announces New Cajera Pivot Recycling ATM Series
• India – more note demonetization to come?
• India – water ATMs
• India – counterfeit bust
• Isle of Man coins
• Israel – Half-shekel coin from revolt against Romans 2 millennia ago uncovered in desert cave
• ‘It’s the only way it fits in my wallet though’: Cashier blasts customers who hand her crumpled-up money when paying
• Myanmar junta’s new banknote causes gold prices, currency value to fluctuate
• Switzerland – explaining the images on notes
• The importance of cash – Natalie Ceeney: protecting cash is pointless if it can’t be spent
• There’s a Weird Link Between Bees And Money, And It Goes Back Thousands of Years
• UK – closing the gaps in the cashless economy
• UK – Survey suggests 15% of UK cash use is due to payment method limits
• US/Maine’s oldest credit union will stop taking coins
• US/NY – cashless tolling systems in Manhattan

July 16 – 21, 2023

• Australia – checking for counterfeits
• Australia – NSW cashless gambling card
• Australia – Karl Stefanovic calls out Commonwealth Bank as it scraps over-the-counter cash withdrawals and deposits at new ‘cashless’ branches
• Australia – Telstra customer’s fury over $2.50 fee for paying with cash
• Banknote banding machine market
• Banknote counting market
• Belize – possible change in note design
• BEP – Director Len Olijar retiring after 30 years
• Bureau of Engraving and Printing Awards Electrosoft $37.8M Cybersecurity Support Contract
• Coin Counting Machines: Top Choices for Accuracy and Efficiency
• DeLaRue & Overton Mill
• Germany – Bombs, car chases and ‘free money’: Dutch gangs blow up German cash machines
• German police find melted-down gold after theft of Celtic coins, seek rest of treasure
• Greek court sentences ATM skimmers to 10 years
• How Benjamin Franklin fought money counterfeiters – Blue threads and muscovite, a reflective mineral, were incorporated into paper bills
• Multiscale analysis of Benjamin Franklin’s innovations in American paper money
• Hyosung’s Cajera Series brings Multifunctionality to Cash Management Devices, Creating Additional Revenue Stream Possibilities
• India – currency in circulation declines due to note withdrawal
• India – Aware of concerns of visually impaired but issuing new banknotes huge task: RBI to HC
• Malaysia – cash is better than cashless
• Nepal – Indian among two arrested in Nepal for dealing with fake gold & banknotes
• Nigeria – currency changes
• Nigeria – toward cashless
• Oman – counterfeit dollars
• Perhaps its time to ditch coin before it drags cash down
• Philippines – checking for counterfeits
• Philippines – counterfeits
• Portugal – can shops refuse cash payments
• Red Link Extends Its Partnership with Diebold Nixdorf to Migrate Entire ATM Network to DN Series
• Romania – medieval coins unearthed
• Scotland one of the most cashless societies in Europe? Why cash is still king in countries like Germany
• Self-Checkout Systems Market Size To Hit USD 8.13 Billion By 2028
• Spain – La historia del billete de 25 pesetas que terminó replicado en otros países por un error garrafal
• Switzerland to Lock in Coins as Cash
• The future of ATM & self-service branch automation
• Uganda replacing 1000 shilling notes with coins
• US – Don’t count out cash just yet
• US Mint Produces Over 7.4 Billion Coins in First Half of 2023
• US Senate Bill Tackles Money Laundering via DeFi, Crypto ATMs
• US/Florida – Ex-ATM Technician Sentenced To Federal Prison For Armed Bank Robbery In Tallahassee

July 8 – 16, 2023

• Barbados – central bank not aware of counterfeited polymer notes
• Canada – design of the $5
• Egypt – new banknote
• Europe – July 16 1661, the first paper banknotes issues in Europe, in Sweden
• Europe – future of banknotes 1
• Europe – future of banknotes 2
• Georgia – counterfeit US dollars
• Increased Focus on Outsourcing Printing of Currencies Drives Growth in Global Banknote Market
• Jamaica – longer lifespan for banknotes
• Japan – coin use
• Luxembourg, Germany, & Netherlands – ATM explosions become ongoing concern
• Macau – counterfeits
• New Zealand – counterfeits
• Number Of ATMs Falling, Number Of Reverse ATMs Rising
• Pakistan – new note
• Serbia – central bank against imposing all cashless payments
• South Korea – counterfeit stats
• UAE – Don’t have your ATM card? Here’s how you can still withdraw money from an ATM
• UK – do you live in one of the UK’s most cashless communities
• UK – cashless society sparks outrage
• UK – Dubai cash mules who smuggled millions in suitcases sentenced
• UK down to 10 crypto ATMs after financial watchdog’s latest cull
• UK – Areas with biggest and smallest falls in ATM withdrawals since 2019 revealed
• US – cash or credit, is there a difference in cost
• US – small businesses & digital payments
• US – 1902 national bank note from Kansas
• US/Illinois – Evanston considers banning cashless retail
• US/Kentucky – hundreds of Civil War era coins unearthed

July 1 – 7, 2023

• Australians are against a cashless society
• Australia – Queensland bank tells customer she can’t withdraw cash (because there was no cash at the branch)
• Azerbaijan – banknote exchange, old for new
• CCL Secure has succeeded for a 2^nd time in opposing a patent application by DeLaRue
• El Salvador – financial inclusion
• GLORY Confirmed as EMEA Leader in Retail Cash Recycling Solutions
• India – With cash mafias back in business, demonetization comes full circle
• India – banknote exhibition
• India – 4 bank managers booked for depositing fake notes
• India – Rs 2,000 was transitory note to fill in value lost due to demonetisation
• India – status of the withdrawal of the Rs2000
• India – counterfeiter arrest
• Ireland – cash will survive the introduction of a digital euro
• Kenya – toward cashless
• Meta Materials Signs Alan Newman, a World-Renowned Expert in Banknote Innovation from De La Rue
• NCR explains ATM unit spinoff strategy
• Nigeria – PalmPay boosts financial inclusion
• Nigeria – toward cashless
• Pakistan – commemorative note
• Philippines – banknotes fly out from security guard’s pack
• Philippines – BSP exchanges dirty notes for clean notes
• Portugal – can you last 7 days without using cash
• Samoa – commemorative note
• South Korean bank rolls out ATM withdrawals with Alchera facial recognition
• The Cashless Society: A paradigm shift in financial transactions
• The future of ATMs: adapting to the digital age
• UK – retailers getting ready to handle King Charles III banknotes
• UK – Britons embracing cashless living, ‘the best thing I ever did.”
• US – does it make sense to get rid of the penny
• US – Civil War era currency
• US – Why are Federal Reserve Banks on US currency?
• US – trends in the number of bank tellers
• US/Michigan – armored carrier dumps coins on I-96
• Why Did Teddy Roosevelt Remove “In God We Trust” from US Currency?

June 24 – 30, 2023

• ATMs & touchless interfaces
• Australia – Westpac restricting customers to A$1000 in ATM withdrawals per day
• Australia – Queensland fights cashless
• Bangladesh – counterfeits
• Bangladesh – toward cashless
• Banking on World Heritage: Depicting Cultural Treasures through Banknotes
• Burundi – new note
• Cash, the long goodbye
• Cashless Society: A Paradigm Shift in Financial Transactions
• Cyprus – counterfeits
• De La Rue shares soar as banknote printer calms ‘going concern’ fears after slumping to near-£30m loss
• DNB – Uncovering the digital payment divide, understanding the importance of cash for groups at risk
• Exploring US consumer payment trends & the resilient demand for cash
• Jamaica – cashless ATMs
• Japan – new banknotes in July 2024
• NCR lays out a road map for its new ATM-specific spinoff
• Nigeria’s digital infrastructure inadequate for cashless economy
• Pakistan: Citizens in Karachi ‘cashless’ as ATMs go ‘out of order’ before Eid al-Adha celebrations
• Thailand – counterfeits
• UK – counterfeit money printers ordered to pay back profits
• UK – Welsh mining towns had alternative currencies 200 years ago – here’s what the crypto world could learn from them
• UK opts to pay with phones as the growth in value of banknotes diminishes
• US – series 2021 notes now in circulation
• US/Oklahoma – BOK Financial sues after insurer offers only $275K for ATM thefts totaling $7.3M

June 14 – 23, 2023

• 1st-century coins from Jewish revolt against the Romans discovered near the Black Sea
• A post-piggy bank world: what does money mean if you can’t hold it in your hand?
• Africa – Ucard drives Africa’s financial inclusion with retail solutions
• ATMs dwindle for the third straight year
• Azerbaijan – new banknote
• Canada – counterfeits in the Yukon
• Colombian police officer in hospital after swallowing extorted banknotes
• Congress members introduce bills to protect cash.
• Egypt – new polymer banknote
• Europe – The impact of war: extreme demand for euro cash in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
• Forecasting banknote circulation during the COVID-19 pandemic using structural time series models
• Gen Z using cash now more than ever, mostly in efforts to save money
• Greek Coin Smuggler, Dealer of ‘World’s Most Expensive Coin’ Arrested for Grand Larceny in New York
• India – Rs500 notes go missing
• India – 42% Faced Rejection Using Rs 2,000 Notes Despite September Deadline: Survey
• India – withdrawal of Rs2000 notes going well
• India – currency in circulation
• Indonesia – redenomination of the rupiah?
• Jamaica – woman exchanges flawed polymer substrate banknote
• Libyan Central Bank failed to account for billions of new banknotes,
• One in four self-checkout systems are now installed in non-food stores
• Pakistan – Is SBP all set to issue Rs10,000 banknote?
• Philippines – 82% of the population has tried cashless payments
• Physical cryptocurrency
• Roman Empire – the coins that killed Julius Caesar
• Roman Empire – the coins of Julius Caesar’s assassins
• Russian War Economy Is Awash With Bags of Cash Kept Out of Banks
• Somalia – QR codes & cashless payments
• Spectra Systems wins US$1.9mln central bank contract
• Ukraine – toward cashless
• UK – What are the rules on paying with cash in the UK? Why shops can refuse your cash
• UK – counterfeits
• UK – counterfeiting in Kent
• US Repatriates Ancient Coins to Greece
• US/Michigan – on Detroit’s prohibition of cashless retail
• US/South Dakota – counterfeiter to serve 21 months in prison
• Volumatic reminds businesses of the five key advantages of cash
• What if we could pick who appears on our dollar bills
• What if we could pick – report

June 5 – 13, 2023

• Afghanistan – new notes
• Australia – consumers want the opportunity to continue paying with cash at retail
• Azerbaijan – exchanging old notes for new notes
• Bangladesh – toward cashless
• Brazil – counterfeit bust
• Canada – history of the C$1000 note
• Cash Recyclers Market Comprehensive Analysis
• Cashless societies & financial inclusion
• China & Thailand – cashless smart vending
• Exploring the future of cashless payments
• Has the penny had its day – In terms of the coins in your pocket, it’s useless
• India – a cashless cautionary tale
• India – cash in circulation: Counterfeit & soiled notes
• India – Nearly half of Rs 2000 banknotes have been returned
• India – ATMs of multinational firm tampered in 18 states, Rs 2.53 crore withdrawn
• India – demonetization 2.0 or routine currency management
• Kenya – the demonitisation experience in 2019
• Jamaica – new notes
• Mobile payments & the future of cashless in emerging markets
• Most consumers now only carry cash out of habit
• Nigeria – cash vs the e-naira
• Rare 1937 Edward VIII Proof Set in $30 million Tyrant Collection Exhibit
• Seigniorage through Periodic Recoinage: When the Validity of Money Was Restricted in Time
• Singapore – cashless is eco-friendly
• Singapore – ATMs that dispense lessons instead of money among financial literacy initiatives for children by banks
• Tunisia – banknotes & coins in circulation
• Turkey seizes $1 billion of counterfeit money headed for Africa
• UK – Last banknotes featuring the image of HM Queen Elizabeth II
• UK – Billions worth of old UK banknotes still not cashed in – how to swap old notes for new ones
• UK – Thousands of pounds of counterfeit cash seized by police during raids in Radlett and Hemel Hempstead
• UK – Link chief John Howells on bank branch closures, payments and the battle for cash
• UK – A cashless society? Not yet – just 3% of us use only cards (but ATMs are disappearing at an alarming rate)
• US – Series Key $2 Legal Tender Expected to Realize Six Figures
• US/Alaska – Armed Transport Guard Steals $580,000 From Credit Union & Bank ATMs
• US/California – Ontario family finds 1 million copper pennies in the basement crawl space of 1900s-era home
• US/California – Romanians held in ATM fraud
• US/Michigan – ban on cashless retail in Detroit
• US/Pennsylvania – counterfeit seizures in Philadelphia
• US/Texas – 19 months for ATM larceny
• Vietnam – toward cashless

May 30 – June 4, 2023

• Afghanistan – new banknotes
• ATMs – passive ink not staining solution
• Bangladesh – BB cashless plan
• Coinhub Bitcoin ATMs: expanding Bitcoin ATM network across major US cities
• Diebold files for chapter 11
• Georgia – Archaeologists conducting excavations at the Roman Fort of Apsaros in Georgia, found evidence of the Legion X Fretensis
• India – banknotes in circulation, counterfeit stats
• India – counterfeit Rs500 notes in FY 2023
• India – RBI’s Rs2000 action explained
• Netherlands – Dutch Metal Detectorist Discovers a Medieval Hoard of Gold Jewelry & Silver Coins
• Pakistani Fintech recognised by WEF for pioneering financial inclusion
• Philippines – cashless begging with QR codes
• Scottish £100 banknote among the world’s ‘most beautiful’
• Swedish woman fined 13,800 for handing in lost 500 kronor banknote late
• Switzerland – cash usage
• The global pandemic – laboratory of the cashless economy
• Tunisia – coin history
• UK – Bank of England’s warning to anyone who uses £20 & £50 notes
• UK – TV show about 18^th century counterfeiter
• UK – £9bn in old UK banknotes and coins not cashed in
• US – NYC small businesses avoid carrying cash to deter crooks after string of break-ins
• US – who is on every US bill
• US – great ATM rip-off! How customers are slapped with 70% fees just to withdraw cash from another bank – as the number of available machines plummets
• US/Texas – 8 arrested in ATM theft ring
• US Secret Service Strategic Plan Prioritizes Investments to Stay Ahead of Evolving Threats
• Vietnam – central bank & cashless payments
• Viking coins of Harald Bluetooth

May 23 – 29, 2023

• Cash is king for emergency funds & queen for short-term savings
• China – Vietnamese students in China get used to cashless lifestyle
• Ghana – toward cashless
• Hong Kong – counterfeits
• IMF – Measurement & Use of Cash by Half the World’s Population
• India – counterfeits
• India – the life & death of the Rs2000
• India – RBI update on the Rs1000 note
• India – water ATMs
• Lebanon’s central bank to issue large-denomination banknotes
• North Korea allows regional commercial banks to issue cashless bank slips
• South Africa – banknotes & coins
• South Africa – future of ATMs
• The man who invented the trillion dollar coin
• UK – New powers to protect access to cash
• UK – Views on cash vs card in Nottingham – and fears for a cashless society
• UK – new report shows a cashless society is a long way off
• US – BEP has fallen for the myth of Ben Franklin & the kite/electricity experiment on a $2 note
• US/Connecticut – Bitcoin ATM giant forced to cease operations after statewide scam
• What is holding back the cashless society
• Younger generations prefer to pay in cash
• Zimbabwe – small change crisis

May 17 – 22, 2023

• 2,000-year-old hoard of Roman coins may have been hidden by a soldier during a bloody civil war in Italy
• 2,000-year-old financial record uncovered on Pilgrimage Road in the City of David, Jerusalem
• A coin of Queen Fastrada and Charlemagne found
• Ancient coins surface with Lake Iznik’s withdrawal in Türkiye
• Cash is king, Bitcoin is god
• Cash vs cashless retail
• De La Rue picks turnaround expert Whiley as chair
• Ghana – toward cashless
• Highest-denomination bill in Argentina is now the 2,000-peso note, worth $4
• IMF – Measurement & Use of Cash by Half the World’s Population
• India – Why did RBI decide to withdraw the Rs 2,000 banknote from circulation
• India – RBI’s website crashes after Rs2000 announcement
• India – effects of the Rs2000 announcement
• India – what is the clean note policy
• India – no extra cost to reconfigure ATMs
• Ireland – do businesses want to go cashless
• Jamaica – toward cashless
• Liberia – financial inclusion
• Philippines – 1000 peso polymer note named banknote of the year
• Singapore – toward cashless
• Singapore – cashless payments
• South Korea – counterfeit US dollars
• Tanzania – toward cashless
• The efficiencies of ATM-as-a-service
• The polymer banknote controversy, or the irrationality of “everything plastic”
• Why cash is king for emergency funds & queen for short-term savings
• World-first black nickel-plated coin wins top honour
• Zimbabwe has a small change crisis

May 12 – 17, 2023

• Another nail in the cash coffin: Businesses can now take payments on their iPhones
• Canada – Did the mastermind behind the massive gold & currency heist in Pearson get away with it?
• Cash or card? Consumers pay strategically to forget guilty purchases, study shows
• Cashless Economy: Evolution and Execution in Nigeria
• Cuba Faces a Money Shortage at ATM’s & Unpaid Salaries
• Currency change surprises
• De La Rue authentication insights
• De La Rue investors push billionaire Rothschild as chairman
• Deutsche Bank Research – The Future of Payments, Series 4, Part III, Bye bye cash, hello digital payments
• Fire ravaged this Spanish building over a millennia ago. See the coins that survived
• Has the penny had its day?
• India – counterfeits
• India – Preventive healthcare in India gets shot in arm with ‘Health ATMs’
• Ireland – Gardaí launch crackdown on crypto ATMs used by criminal gangs to launder money
• Ireland – 1 in 5 Limerick businesses want to go cashless
• Jamaica – toward cashless
• Koenig & Bauer : Strategic partnership between Koenig & Bauer Banknote Solutions and GIETZ
• Kyrgyz Republic to introduce a new series of banknotes
• Netherlands – Dutch central bank moves €14.9 billion in cash and gold to new vault complex
• Newfangled coins and mercenaries may have brought about democracy
• Nigeria – The implications of the CBN’s directives on the new naira notes, cash withdrawal limits & cash swap program
• Nigeria – it is illegal to “abuse” naira notes
• Nigeria – CBN proposes ATM upgrades for loan disbursements
• Pakistan – OICCI recommends demonetization of Rs5,000 banknote to curb cash dealings
• Switzerland – 1,000-Franc Bills Account for Half of All Swiss Cash, SNB Says
• Swiss gov’t supports cash referendum amid digital payment concerns
• The Economist on cashless developments around the world
• UK’s cashless transition under the microscope as Payments Choice Alliance pushes back
• UK – the Payments Choice Alliance
• UK – navigating the transition to a cashless society
• US – Dollar dollar bill y’all: Gen Z is using cash more than ever in the face of inflation

May 6 – 12, 2023

• Argentina banknotes crisis
• Australia – Joey’s search for fee-free ATMs sometimes means the difference between skipping a meal or not
• Australia & New Zealand – toward cashless
• Authentix completes development of the banknote industry’s first CDI2 compliant detector
• Bangladesh – toward cashless
• Canada – the life expectancy of banknotes, polymer vs paper
• Canada – King Charles III will be on the $20.
• China – the history of money
• Croatia Mint Sees Opportunity
• Croatia’s Love Affair with the Kuna: Billions Still in Circulation Despite Euro Adoption
• Federal Reserve notes of 2021 Series heading to circulation
• Financial inclusion in the US: how to fulfil the unbanked, underbanked & unserved
• India – fintechs vs cash
• Is self service killing cash?
• Jamaica – toward cashless
• Kyrgyzstan – banknote history
• New bipartisan bill would let the U.S. Mint alter the metal content of coins to save money
• Nigeria – cashless policy
• Nigeria – financial inclusion
• Nigeria – counterfeits of the newly issued banknotes
• No cash, no touch: Go green with online money movement
• Portugal – toward cashless
• SEC orders crypto ATM operator to pay $3.9 million for selling unregistered tokens
• Should banknotes be abolished as we become an increasingly cashless society?
• South Africa – spelling error on new R100 note
• South Africa – Cutting banknotes for nail art is illegal – SARB
• Thailand – counterfeits
• The cashless society – a roadmap
• UK – Cash has a secret power — it’s really, really hard to spend
• UK – Survey says a third of Wexford businesses would like to go fully cashless
• UK – FCA crackdown on unregistered crypto ATMs
• UK – counterfeits
• US Mint coin production in April 2023

May 1 – 5, 2023

• AI is setting a future course for ATMs
• Australia – 110,000 Australians have signed petitions against cashless retail
• Banknote printing machine market – surge in the adoption of durable solutions for printing
• Consumers’ financial concerns could disrupt yearslong cash use trend
• DeLaRue – new banknote production line
• DeLaRue – update on recruiting new chairman
• Double hoard of Viking treasure discovered near Harald Bluetooth’s fort in Denmark
• India – what to do with soiled/mutilated banknotes
• Iran – banknote history
• Jamaica – bank customers struggle with cashless ATMs where service providers have failed to replenish supplies
• Japan – 3 new banknotes
• Japan – new notes feature 3D holograms
• Kyrgyzstan Som Banknote History & New 2023 Release
• Nepal – financial inclusion
• Philippines – P1000 note wins international award
• Romania – bank fooled by 100s of counterfeit notes
• SICPA – Banknote security business to pay $90 million Swiss foreign bribery penalty
• South Africa upgrades note to thwart counterfeiting
• These Ninth-Century Coins Change Our Understanding of Alfred the Great
• Ukraine – new note
• UK Authorities Dismantle Cash Carrier Criminal Ring
• UK – Woke technocrats are erasing cash to seize control over our financial lives – It’s terrible for the elderly, and risks giving authorities the power to monitor every single transactions
• UK – FCA & crypto ATMs
• US Mint failing to maintain coin production levels to meet public demand
• US – Gen Z & cash
• US Mint lost $171 million minting coins last year

April 26 – 30, 2023

• A Trove of 175 Roman Coins, Hidden for 2,000 Years, Was Found in an Italian Forest
• Bangladesh – new note
• Bosnia & Herzegovina Banknote History
• Buying banknotes to survive Zimbabwe’s sky-high inflation
• Cameroon – counterfeits
• Cash-Loving or Cashless Society.
• India – toward cashless
• Nepal – financial inclusion
• Pakistan – SBP clears air about demonetisation of Rs75 commemorative banknote
• UK – Brits reject cashless & boycott bank branches
• UK – should a card replace cash permanently?
• UK – The rogue Chester Mint official who went to war with Sir Isaac Newton
• US – Legislation again seeks cost-saving policy change to allow Mint choice
• US/Michigan – toward cashless

April 22 – 26, 2023

• Anglo-Saxon coins: Illegally held hoard rewrites English history
• Are Cashless Payment Policies The Start Of A Cashless Society?
• Authentix closes takeover of Dutch security printer
• Azerbaijan – central bank on counterfeits
• Bahrain – toward cashless.
• Cash mules guilty of transporting millions to Dubai in suitcases
• Colombia – counterfeit domestic currency & dollars
• Crane Currency and the Royal Canadian Mint to supply Caribbean Guilder currency
• Global Sorting Cash Machine (Banknote Sorter, Coin Sorter) Market Analysis Report, 2022-2023 & 2028
• Japan – cashless payments
• Nigeria – cash shortages in IQ will slow economic growth in 2023
• Nigeria – 3234 jailed for currency offenses in three years
• Nigeria – Currency outside banks rises 66% to N1.4 trn
• Reverse ATMs bridge the gap in cashless stores
• Security inks market 2023-2033
• SICPA acknowledges the Swiss Office of the Attorney General’s (OAG) conviction for “organisational deficiencies,” but disagrees with its grounds
• Spectra Systems gets additional US$885,000 from central bank contract
• UK – Decline of cash payments sparks fears of UK becoming a ‘big brother society’
• UK – 2/3 of over-55s don’t want cashless Britain despite the majority of them using physical money far less often than five years ago.
• UK – Time to check down the back of the sofa! 400-year-old Charles I gold coin hidden amid pile of loose change from foreign holidays will sell for £2,500
• US – coins cost more to produce & distribution than their face value
• US – cost of making a nickel
• US – 110-Year-Old Nickels Are Worth Millions
• US/North Carolina – cash acceptance at retail.
• Venezuela – Bolivars converted to dollars, with ‘Tumbe’ counterfeit money that the United States Secret Service helped find

April 15 – 22, 2023

• Amateur Archaeologist Finds Ancient Silver Coins Near Viking Castle in Denmark
• Apple Pay vs cash
• Argentina – Malta airlifting 180 million peso banknotes to Argentina ahead of election
• ATM scam masquerading as an act of kindness
• Australians among the lowest users of cash in the world
• Bahrain – banknote shortage
• Bangladesh – toward cashless
• Bangladesh – Buying new banknotes: An Eid tradition
• Brunei – counterfeits
• Canada – gold & banknotes stolen at Toronto airport
• CCAC to Review Designs for Greatest Generation and Harriet Tubman Coins
• DeLaRue’s chair quits after turnaround plans criticized
• Estonia – banknote history
• Ghana – financial inclusion
• Gold Roman coin found near Pompeii fetches eye-opening amount at auction
• India – Does going cashless make you tax-rich? Evidence from India’s demonetization experiment
• India – toward cashless
• Ireland – man arrested after trying to steal 3 ATMs in one day
• Japan – new cutting edge notes
• Laos – new notes
• Lebanon – Proposed legislation seeks to grant Lebanon’s Finance Ministry greater control over banknote printing
• Namibia – respect your currency & coin
• Nigeria – cashless policy
• Pakistan – 2 legal tenders
• Portugal – multi-bank machines
• Portugal – 186.4 million banknotes produced
• Security paper market
• Serbia – counterfeits
• The World Goes Cashless, But Not Everyone Can Join The Party
• Time to abolish the US penny
• UAE – cash vs digital payments
• Ukraine – cash in circulation
• UK – Charles III notes in production
• UK government is not planning to eliminate all forms of cash in the next three years
• UK – Cash will become ‘less useable’ as high street goes contactless, says Bank of England
• US – counterfeit coin in colonial America
• US/Michigan – fighting cashless retail in Detroit
• US/Ohio – counterfeits
• Vietnam – cash usage
• Waterborne film for enhancing banknote durability
• What would happen if paper currency became obsolete?
• Whiskey Once a Substitute for Coins

April 5 – 14, 2023

• Australia – cashless society conspiracy theory debunked
• Cashless Society? Not During National Coin Week, Declares American Numismatic Association
• Cashless Machines: Convenient or Exclusionary?
• Crane = business prospects
• DeLaRue – new finance chief
• DeLaRue – activist investor says the company is failing on every measure
• DeLaRue – Banknote printer De La Rue’s chairman steps down
• Demand for banknotes at lowest level in 20 years, says De La Rue
• Egypt – new banknote
• Germany – cash-loving Germans fret over ATM bombings
• Global Bitcoin ATM count is dropping
• India – counterfeits
• India – How savvy shoppers undermined India’s great cash swap
• India – How savvy shoppers undermined India’s great cash swap, the paper
• Kuwait – new note process
• Namibia – Cameroon national arrested for counterfeiting
• Nigeria – 3 arrested for counterfeiting
• Nigeria – impact of cashless policy on market women
• Nigeria – dollar counterfeiting
• Pakistan – paper continues to dominate payments
• Roman coins found on island in baltic sea
• South Korea – BOK replaces 9 million won scorched in a wildfire
• Spain – cash vs payment cards.
• Turkish State Mint Shrinks Lira Coins To Cut Minting Costs
• UAE – new note
• UK – production begins on new King Charles III note
• UK – Two men accused of trying to sell rare Anglo-Saxon coins to undercover police
• US – repercussions of slipping into a cashless society
• US – I tried to pay my taxes in cash – here’s what happened, and why the IRS should make it easier to do so
• US/North Carolina – Brinks truck dumps coins on a highway
• US/Pennsylvania – Dropping Dimes: Hundreds of Thousands in Coins from US Mint Stolen from Parked Truck
• Why Is Early Mint Information so Hard to Find? Part 1
• Why Is Early Mint Information so Hard to Find? Part 2

March 31 – April 4, 2023

• Afghanistan – Balkh residents want to get rid of worn-out banknotes
• Africa – cashless payments
• Australia – ANZ screwing over older customers with cashless branches
• Australia – Thousands of residents revolt against Aussie council plan to go cashless
• Coinhub Bitcoin ATMs Places Over 1000 Bitcoin ATMs In Retail Stores
• Croatia – ATMs start to distribute E50s & E100s
• Easy Money: American Puritans & the Invention of Modern Currency, Dror Goldberg, University of Chicago Press, 2023
• Ghana warns against the use of banknotes as hampers
• Guernsey – new notes
• India – Five sacks of fake notes of banned currencies found in Kasaragod house
• India – counterfeit statistics
• Jamaica – toward cashless
• Jordan – new note
• Latvia – the ratio between non-cash & cash payments is 67% to 33%
• Latvia – counterfeits
• Lazarus Heist: The intercontinental ATM theft that netted $14m in two hours
• Malawi – new note
• More than 3,600 Bitcoin ATMs went offline to record largest monthly decline
• Nigeria – Banks push out dirty, mutilated notes as new naira scarcity persists
• Nigeria – Cash availability forces PoS operators to slash charges
• Pakistan – From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1948: Seventy-five years ago: Pakistan’s new currency
• Reconnaissance International – Cash & Payment Sustainability Forum: End of life for unfit cotton banknotes, 4/5/2023
• The Best Political Cartoon In History Is This Fake Banknote from the Panic of 1837
• Troubled banknote printer DeLaRue faces new campaign to oust chairman
• UK – Millions of drivers are stuck in parking app hell: More councils banish pay & display machines for hated cashless alternatives
• US – The American Stamp – Postal Iconography, Democratic Citizenship, & Consumerism in the United States, Laura Goldblatt & Richard Handler. Columbia University Press
• US – 2022 BEP report cites facilities upgrades, Maryland site acquisition
• US/Kentucky – retailers & the acceptance of cash
• Will cash withdrawals ever be replaced? How far away are we from a cashless society?

March 24 – 30, 2023

• Azerbaijan – toward cashless
• Banknote Market on the Rise as Polymer Substrates Gain Popularity, While Electronic Payments Continue to Expand Globally
• Canada – Post-COVID, Canadian Merchants Stay Committed to Cash
• Canada – campaign to redesign the $20
• Cash, ATMs get a second wind as inflation rises, pandemic habits fade
• Crane Currency reveals new bank note security thread
• Crane – Rapid Vision meets high demand for intelligent banknote security
• India – 2 counterfeiters arrested
• Ireland – toward cashless
• Jamaica – use dye on currency to deter thieves
• Malaysia – currency in circulation
• Nigeria – Naira redesign: A torturous vanity project comes to an end
• Pakistan – counterfeits
• Pakistan – digital banking & financial inclusion
• Reconnaissance International – Cash & Payment Sustainability Forum: End of life for unfit cotton banknotes, 4/5/2023
• Southeast Asia – toward cashless
• Sorting Cash Machine Global Market Report 2023: Sector to Reach $1.91 Billion in 2027 at a CAGR of 4.4%
• Spain – Costa gang that distributed counterfeit 500 euro banknotes is smashed
• Threats rising against ATMs
• Ukraine – counterfeiting
• UK – Weak-willed Essex cash van driver jailed after faking £920k armed heist
• UK – 45% of people ‘have visited places where cash was discouraged or not accepted’
• UK government drops plans for NFT made by Royal Mint
• US – are banknotes magnetic?
• US Seizes 18 Crypto ATMs Purchased Using Fraudulent SBA Loans — Arrests Owner
• Why we still need cash (and the choice to use it).
• Zimbabwe – after Z$100 billion note shocker, a new state of dysfunction

March 20 – 24, 2023

• Acceptance is key to cash remaining viable
• Argentina – new 2000 peso banknote
• Cash Payment Limits disempower citizens
• China – when cash is no longer king
• Europe – banknote counterfeiting in 2022
• Fed holds a 16-year surplus of dollar coins
• GetGo Café+Market to install Bitcoin ATMs
• Hackers drain bitcoin ATMs of $1.5 million by exploiting 0-day bug
• Highest denomination notes in the US
• India – notes in circulation
• India – only 15% of ATMs dispense the Rs2000 note
• India – counterfeits in Gujarat
• Is a fully cashless world inevitable?
• Lebanon – central bank buying up domestic banknotes & distributing dollars in their place
• Liberia – banknote of the year
• Malaysia – toward cashless
• Malta – counterfeits
• Nigeria’s central bank made critical mistakes that doomed the country’s currency redesign
• Nigeria: Banker-Customer Relationship In Nigeria: A Case Study Of The Currency Scarcity & Its Legal Implications
• Pakistan – Fake $1 mn note sold for PKR 100 mn in cash-strapped Pakistan
• Rare 120+ Year Old Coin Collection to be Auctioned For The First Time Ever
• Security inks market ($)
• Spectra – financial results
• UK – How much money can you withdraw from an ATM? Maximum cash withdrawals for UK banks revealed
• UK – Royal Mint uses patented chemistry from Rockwell Automation to recover gold from electronic waste
• US/New York – counterfeits in Buffalo
• What’s the deal with cash recycling?
• Where is the ATM industry headed?
• World’s Most Expensive Gold Coin, Minted by Brutus to Honor Caesar’s Murder, Returned to Greece
• Zimbabwe – The Country Behind the $100,000,000,000,000 Bill Hits a New Stage of Dysfunction

March 15 – 20, 2023

• Africa – financial inclusion
• ATM safety market ($)
• Germany arrests 42 in ATM bombing cases
• Germany – museum preserve WW2 bunker that stored counterfeits from Operation Bernhard
• Ghana – digital commerce, banking, payments
• IMF – Measurement and Use of Cash by Half the World’s Population
• India – counterfeits
• India – 9 members of a counterfeiting gang arrested
• India – meteoric rise of cash in circulation
• India – grain-dispensing ATM
• Keesing Technologies warns of proliferation of euro counterfeiting
• Netherlands – 1,000-year-old gold earrings & silver coins unearthed
• Nigeria – banknote circulation improves, new notes rare
• Nigeria’s central bank made critical mistakes that doomed the country’s currency redesign
• Northern Ireland – 12 ATMs targeted by thieves
• Oman – counterfeiter arrests
• Pakistan – new commemorative coin
• Singapore – cashless payments & special-needs adults
• South Korea – backlash against cashless buses
• Spectra Systems – business performance
• Tajikistan puts new banknotes into circulation
• Trinidad & Tobago – cash automation
• Uganda – 3 arrested with counterfeits
• Ukraine – new commemorative banknote
• US – Crane & US banknote paper
• US – coins during the Articles of Confederation period
• US – Kellogg & Humbert Ingot Brings $138,000

March 8 – 15, 2023

• Afghanistan – New Banknotes Printed in France to Arrive in May
• American Council of the Blind and Supporters Rally to Demand Accessible and Inclusive Currency
• Are there really any cashless economies?
• Argentina banknote celebrates work of two medical pioneers
• Australia – Americans’ reactions to plastic substrate notes documented in video clips
• Banknote recycler market
• Banknote themes in motion
• Canada – Royal Canadian Mint still foresees vital role as demand for coins declines
• Dubai – new note
• Fewer ATMs may force cash-heavy establishments to reconsider digital wallets
• India – counterfeits
• India – counterfeit Rs500 notes
• India – currency in circulation stats
• Intelligent Cash Counter Industry to See Huge Growth by 2030
• Ireland – cashless & the elderly
• Kenya – M-Pesa & financial inclusion
• Nepal – counterfeits
• Netherlands – Dutch historian strikes centuries-old treasure with stash of gold & silver
• Nigeria – cashless policy
• Norway – cash usage in decline
• One of the World’s Most Expensive Coins Was Sold Using Fake Provenance & the Seller Has Been Arrested
• Security inks marketplace
• Shelves Full of Bread: On Joan Ramon Resina’s Cultures of Currencies
• Spain – what to do with a damaged banknote
• Sri Lanka – counterfeits
• Switzerland – Roman coin find
• UAE Central Bank wins award for new Dh1,000 banknote
• UK – counterfeits
• UK – FCA takes action against crypto ATMs
• UK – ATM tracker
• US Mint coin production in February 2023
• US – George Santos may have been involved in ATM skimming scheme
• US Mint, 1868, an explosion in the coiners vault

March 2 – 8, 2023

• Bangladesh – trade bodies want a smooth transition to cashless economy
• Canada – Toronto artist designs coins for Royal Canadian Mint
• Cash logistics market
• Cashless – 5 reasons to go cashless in 2023
• Cashless banking could be a mistake for you
• Coinme Expands Cash Network, Adding Over 22,000 ATMs For Instant Cash Pick Up
• De La Rue seeks pension deferral as banknote printer’s woes continue
• Global Banknote Market Sees Increase in Polymer Substrates Adoption, While Digital Payments Rise in Key Economies
• Guinea Replacing Some Bank Notes to Root Out Counterfeits
• India – on the paper used to make banknotes
• Is a cashless society likely?
• Lebanon – Two LBP 100,000 banknote versions are in circulation
• Malaysia – arrests in ATM bombing & robbery
• Mass transit payment innovations
• New Zealand – the cyclone & the cashless society
• Newfangled coins and mercenaries may have brought about democracy
• Nigeria: Naira Redesign And Cashless Policy: Wither The Role Of Bank Neutral Cash Hubs?
• Nigeria – banknote chaos continues
• Poland – 17th-century century hoard brimming with 1,000 coins discovered
• Singapore – cards vs cash
• South Africa – cash vs cards
• UK – Royal Mint reveals 10 rarest 50p coins in circulation
• UK – FCA takes further action against unregistered crypto ATMs in East London
• UK cash usage patterns
• UK’s Financial Inclusion Gap Means 11 Million Women Are Denied Access to Mainstream Products
• US – ATM count on decline as people use less cash
• US/Connecticut – state police warn you to steer clear of cryptocurrency ATMs

February 22 – March 1, 2023

• ATM statistics to understand its expansion worldwide in the banking sector
• Bangladesh – first & only unicorn used “human ATMs” to promote financial inclusion
• Bangladesh – currency printing cost
• Bitcoin ATM decline: Over 400 machines went off the grid in under 60 days
• Cash Transfers and Digital Financial Inclusion: Regional evidence from the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Nepal
• Counterfeit Money Detection Market 2023-2030
• Croatia – cash vs electronic payments
• DeLaRue stock price is low, should I buy
• Europe – cash or cashless
• France – banks’ shared ATM network to modestly improve profitability
• Gambia – central bank calls for proper handling of banknotes
• HYOSUNG Chairman Hyun-Joon Cho, “Customer Obsession Management” in the US ATM market
• India – does scribbling on a banknote make it invalid
• India – toward cashless
• India – counterfeits
• India – digital payments vs cash
• India – RBI’s new pilot project on coin vending machines
• Ireland – cards vs cash
• Latvia – cashless payments
• Malawi – counterfeits
• Namibia – central bank note destruction
• New Zealand – Cyclone-Hit New Zealand Exposes the Risks of a Cashless Society
• Nigeria – Naira Swap: Over N500bn Yet to Be Returned to CBN
• Nigeria – cashless policy: A significant opportunity for growth
• Nigeria – cashless policy reduced vote buying & selling
• Pakistan – 81% of Pakistanis do not have bank accounts
• Persuasive reasons to stop using cash
• Rwanda – government to scrap fee on low value cashless transactions
• South Africa – counterfeits
• Sweden – ditching cash, wait for the fallout
• The cashless con was never about hygiene
• Ukraine – new banknote
• UK – £500 banknote fetches £24,000 at auction
• UK – New King Charles III Polymer Banknotes for 2024
• UK – Christopher Wren and the £50 Banknote
• UK – Scrapping traditional pay & display parking meters will isolate elderly & disabled people, critics say
• US – How to print money
• US – BEP confirms 2026 date for a $10 with tactile features
• US – what makes a coin important?
• US/Wisconsin – counterfeits

February 15 – 21, 2023

• Ancient coin collecting is at risk – Ever increasing numbers of import restrictions are making coin collecting a more difficult hobby
• Appetite for cash remains strong: Behind Green Dot & Paymentus’ cash bill pay partnership
• Bahrain – cashless transactions
• Banknote market size to grow at a CAGR 2.97% by 2027: Driven by the implementation of central bank policies for clean banknotes
• Banknote strapping machine market
• Caribbean – ECCB thinks notes with Charles III may be in doubt
• Cayman Islands – banknote design
• Coins of the Medieval Ottoman Sultans of Turkey
• Global cashless payment volumes continue to grow
• India – digital transactions will soon exceed cash transactions, PM Modi
• India – counterfeits
• Ireland – 90% of people want the choice to pay by cash or by card
• Jordan – counterfeits
• Kenya – my cashless week
• Malawi – counterfeiting
• Namibia – modified banknotes
• NCR, Walgreens, ATMs
• Nigeria reissues old banknote as cash fiasco threatens to disrupt election
• Nigeria – cashless policy is reducing trust in banks
• Poland hands over Romanian wanted for ATM scams in Mexico
• Serial Dependence Bias: Guessing Coins’ Value Quickly Demonstrates Cognitive Bias Mechanism
• Somalia – Revitalizing Somalia’s Economy: A Closer Look At Currency Reform
• Swiss may face a future referendum to enshrine status of cash
• UK – Metal detectorist who thought he had found ‘one lucky penny’ tells how he kept digging to unearth hoard of 570 coins dubbed ‘England’s worst ever money’ that could be worth £200,000
• UK – bank branches where you can’t deposit cash
• UK – Essex cash-in-transit driver guilty of being ‘inside man’ in faked £920k armed heist
• UK – cashless vending
• Ulster Bank note up for international award
• US – $2, or more? How much rare bills could be worth beyond their printed value
• US Mint coin production in January 2023
• US – National Bank of Rondout 19^th century notes

February 6 – 15, 2023

• African countries turn to currency redesign to tackle counterfeits, corruption, inflation
• Argentina – Inflation hits a staggering 99% in Argentina even after spiraling food prices sparked street protests, central bank plans 2000 peso note
• Argentina – Lionel Messi on the currency?
• Australia – RBA will consult with First Australians on banknote design
• Australia – King Charles representative not warned about $5 note change: ‘Gross lack of courtesy’
• Bangladesh – new 1000 taka note
• Barbados – cashless transport system
• Canada – more people in Ontario are going cashless
• In an increasingly cashless world what do kids think about money?
• India – plans to install 17,000 ATMs
• Iraq – counterfeits
• Latin America – fintechs & financial inclusion
• Malaysia – central bank & financial inclusion
• Mexico – currency reform
• Netherlands – Four men caught red-handed at border after cashpoint raid in Germany
• Nigeria – EFCC arrests bank manager for failing to load new banknotes into ATMs
• Nigeria’s naira crisis: Supreme Court suspends banknote deadline
• Nigeria – CBN destroying old N500 & N1000 notes as they come in
• Nigeria – banknote exchange chaos
• Northern Ireland – Ulster Bank note shortlisted in world banknote competition
• Pakistan – University professor in Pakistan thrashed by bus conductor for giving old banknote
• Reasons to go cashless in 2023
• Sri Lanka – ATM theft
• Switzerland – Cashless society? Not in Switzerland where people will vote on keeping banknotes & coins forever
• Switzerland – 7 things about Swiss money
• Thailand – banknote history
• Uganda – central bank warns against using banknotes for bouquets
• Uganda: Plans to Have Museveni’s Picture On Ugandan Currency Notes Commence
• UK – FCA takes action against unregistered crypto ATM operators in Leeds
• UK – Rare £500 Leeds banknote could fetch £22,000 at auction
• UK – Brits can’t ‘unsee hidden image’ on new King Charles III coins
• UK – Biggest Coin Hoard in a Decade Worth £150,000 Discovered During “Metal Detecting Rally” In British Countryside
• US – Pauli Murray Will Be First Black Queer Person on US Currency
• US/New Jersey – cashless cafes & businesses are breaking the law
• US/North Carolina – Cash from bank heist tossed out of escape car after dye packs explode
• US/Virginia – Dulles CBP Officers Seize over $350k during 14 Currency Reporting Violations Since New Year’s Eve
• USPS aims to stamp out counterfeit postage
• Women on Banknotes Remain Rare

February 1 – 5, 2023

• Afghanistan – Kabul residents call for better care of banknotes
• Argentina – Artist Making Paintings on Devalued Currency
• Argentina – new banknote
• Australia won’t put King Charles II on the $5
• Australia – It’s tradition: Indigenous designs have been on Australian money since decimalisation
• Australia – NSW government to ensure all poker machines go cashless within five years
• Bangladesh – counterfeit dollar gang
• Belgium – 2022 counterfeits
• Bitcoin ATM companies are preying on the poor – Bitcoin Depot has admitted to its investors that it relies on demographic data to strategically place its machines.
• Bulgaria removing 2005 banknote series from circulation
• Canada – counterfeits in Winnepeg
• Cash is not dead — it’s in transition.
• Croatia – counterfeit euros
• DeLaRue CFO stepping down
• Europe – history of the euro coin
• Ghana – water ATMs
• How cashless spending has grown since 2015.
• India – counterfeits
• India – counterfeit coins
• Jordan – new note
• LRB – When Money Talks, A History of Coins & Numismatics
• Nepal – counterfeits
• Netherlands – 47% rise in number of counterfeit euro banknotes discovered
• Netherlands – counterfeits of very low quality
• Nigeria – cash shortages
• Nigeria – ATMs running out of new notes
• Pakistan – time to retire the Rs5000 note
• Swiss libertarians push for vote to guarantee the survival of cash
• UK – medieval coin find
• UK – Royal Mint’s diversification means all change for IT & security
• UK – Working for cash in hand can be a vital career step and a way out of poverty
• UK – fake 1801 coins found by metal detectorists
• US Mint research study
• US – first American ATM was on Long Island
• What is the cost of businesses going cashless?
• Women on banknotes remain rare

January 25 – 31, 2023

• Australia – Commuter collected more than $10,000 worth of banknotes during Roe Highway cash splash
• Bitcoin ATMs, a thing of the past?
• Cash for disaster recovery
• Counterfeit Banknote Listings on Dark Web Spike by 91%
• Croatia/Euro – what does it take the change a currency
• Cyprus – counterfeit euros in 2022
• Europe ‘a new generation of bank robbers’ target ATMs with explosives, stealing millions
• Europe – counterfeit banknotes in 2022
• Examining Cleopatra through ancient coinage
• Finland – counterfeit euros in 2022
• Germany – ATM crime wave
• How do sensors impact ATMs
• Illusory Wealth – Victor Dubreuil’s Cryptic Currencies
• India – Boy snatches money garland off groom’s neck, makes off with 329 ₹500 notes
• India – counterfeits
• India – new banknote paper mill in Odisha
• India – fintech & the cashless economy
• India – Number of micro ATMs go up in 2022, but cash withdrawals slow down
• Kenya – toward cashless
• Malaysia – digital banking & financial inclusion
• Mexico – ATM fees
• Nigeria – Lawyer sues CBN, seeks extension of deadline for old banknotes
• Nigeria – toward cashless
• Not exactly an Indian rhapsody for banknote manufacturer De La Rue
• Philippines – BSP: P1K polymer bills available in more ATMs nationwide
• Poland – Copernicus commemorative note
• Singapore – girl was 16 when recruited as an ATM theft runner
• South Korea – Sweet dreams: Korean bank entices customers with banknote-stuffed pillows
• South Korea – coins from the Song dynasty unearthed
• UK – 51 coins from famous shipwrecks at auction
• US – Treasury Looks for New Tech to Prove Physical Money is Legit
• US – 1888 Liberty head nickel
• US/California – ATM bombers sentenced to 11 years in prison
• US/Michigan – Detroit proposal would ban cashless retail
• US/North Carolina – proposal in state legislature to ban cashless retail
• Whaddya mean you don’t accept cash?

January 19 – 25, 2023

• Canada – Royal Mint wins 2 coin of the year awards
• Cash Logistics Market set to grow as cashless transactions continue to rise, but security concerns remain a key challenge
• Central African States – new currency
• Crane – When Will Crane Holdings Take Flight?
• Decline in consumer use of cash is offset by criminal usage of Benjamins.
• DeLaRue aware of India probe
• DeLaRue refutes corruption allegations
• DeLaRue Suspends Banknote Printing Activities in Kenya; Shares Fall 7%
• Ghana – counterfeits
• India – counterfeits
• India – why currency is still in demand.
• Iraqi PM replaces governor after fraud drives currency fall
• Jordan – new note
• Lebanon – Credit Libanais facilitates trading in Fresh Lebanese Pounds via electronic instruments
• Mexico – replacing 20 peso note with a 20 peso coin
• Nigeria’s currency redesign & withdrawal limits: questionable policy & bad timing
• Odd Denominations We’ve Used – & Those We Haven’t
• Oman – security features of 6^th series banknotes
• Oman – counterfeits
• Pakistan – counterfeits
• Philippines – Euronet & ATMs
• South Korea supplies 3.4 bln USD banknotes ahead of Lunar New Year’s holiday
• Scotland – toward cashless
• The Global Pandemic, Laboratory of the Cashless Economy?
• UK – Why are ATM cash machine withdrawals rising in a ‘cashless’ era?
• UK – The Royal Mint appoints new King’s Assay Master to serve the reigning monarch
• US – Chase ATMs in NYC closing early over ‘rising crime’ & ‘vagrancy’
• US/Illinois – Evanston cashless ban rejected
• US/Massachusetts – counterfeiter sentenced to 41 months in prison
• Vietnam – growth in cashless payments

January 13 – 19, 2023

• Accessibility to cash is still king.
• Afghanistan – damaged notes
• Argentina – banks need a lot more space to store peso notes
• Australians who cannot remember using cash
• Australia could be just two years away from officially becoming a cashless society – research predicts when the era of banknotes & coins will end
• Australia – gold, forensics & banknotes
• Bangladesh – toward cashless
• Canada – why is the monarch on coins & banknotes
• Czech Republic – Exhibit and special banknote to mark 30 years of Czechoslovak currency split
• DeLaRue in India
• Greece – In Era of Plastic Money, Digital Spending, Many Greeks Like Cash
• Here’s What Happens if You Deposit More Than $10,000 in Cash Into Your Bank Account
• Is a Cashless Society as Good as Everyone Thinks? Some Disadvantages Stand Out
• India – counterfeits
• Italy – for right-wing parties, cash is still king.
• Italy Reshapes Pro-Cash Strategy Amid Surge in Digital Payment Adoption
• Malaysia – Get Your Crisp New Ringgit Hassle-Free At These ATMs
• Massive Roman Gold Medallion Sells for Record $2.3 million
• Nigeria – cashless payments
• Northern Ireland – cash usage
• Scotland – ATMs disappearing
• Scotland – top 10 places to go cashless, absent ATMs
• Somalia – new banknote
• South Africa – cashless payments
• South Korea – counterfeits
• Taiwan – counterfeits
• Ukraine – cash in circulation
• UK – Banking customers withdrew £83bn from ATMs in 2022, says Link network
• US – history of presidents on coins

January 8 – 12, 2023

• Banknote printing machine market analysis ($)
• Belgian Competition Authority opens investigation into the agreement between the four largest Belgian banks and the company Batopin
• Bulgaria – euro adoption
• Cashless payments & marijuana dispensaries
• Croatia – euro changeover going smoothly
• Crypto ATMs – countries with the highest numbers
• Digital Payment Growth Threatens EU Consumers’ Cash Usage
• Europe – cash usage
• Europe – ECB study shows frequent cash usage at POS
• India – cash is king after the note ban
• Jordan – new banknotes
• Less than 100 Bitcoin ATMs added worldwide in the second half of 2022.
• Malawi – 2 arrested for decorating a cake with banknotes
• Nigeria – why are new Naira notes so scarce
• Nigeria – CBN warns banks to stop putting old banknotes into ATMs
• Nigeria – cashless policy will disrupt SMEs
• Nigeria – 2 bankers jailed for ATM fraud
• Portugal – flood-damaged banknotes
• Scotland – ATM count reductions in Edinburgh
• South Africa – cashless transactions spur innovation
• Sri Lanka – ATM scammers arrested
• Taiwan – counterfeits
• UK – Nationwide reports increase in cash withdrawals
• US – 1870 Gold Coin Breaks Record At Heritage, Sells For $5.52 Million
• US – how the US Mint jumped 153 places in the ranking of best places to work in government
• US – Rite Aid introduces cash bill payment service
• US Rare Coin Market Continued to Soar in 2022
• US – NYC Collector Dies Before Rare Pennies Sell for $100,000+ Each
• Venezuela – a dress made out of worthless notes
• What To Do when Cash Isn’t Accepted

January 4 – 8, 2023

• Azerbaijan – promotion of contactless payments to move to cashless
• BIS – The pandemic, cash & retail payment behavior
• Currency Sorter Market – A Comprehensive Study by Key Players: Glory, Laurel, Delarue, Toshiba ($)
• Denmark – where have the bank robbers gone?
• Hong Kong – brisk holiday demand for new banknotes
• India – was demonitisation right or wrong?
• India – does writing on a banknote make it invalid?
• India – counterfeits
• India – counterfeits 2
• Israel – Silver coins were used as money in Israel 3,600 years ago – study
• Jordan – new notes
• National Culture & the Demand for Physical Money During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
• New Zealand – bank branches, ATMs, cash usage
• Nigeria – Ink stains from new naira notes are security features: Minting company
• Nigeria -don’t subject the new notes to futile experiments
• Nigeria – CBN bans banks from paying out new notes over the counter
• Nigeria – all government payments to go cashless in March 2023
• Philippines – Doctored video claims the Philippines has ‘new 5,000-peso banknote’
• Singapore – long lines at ATMs as customers demand fresh notes for gifts
• UK – Brits turn to bank branches to help manage rising cost of living – Depositing & withdrawing cash key drivers for visiting a branch more often
• US – the cashless future is here, so is “Big Brother”
• US – misprinted dollar bills
• US With Highest Number of Closed Bitcoin ATMs in Negative Growth Year
• US – Fort Knox securely stores billions of dollars of gold ‘just in case we need it.’ But the vault is home to other priceless treasures — & secrets
• US/New York – Thieves steal bag of $300,000 cash by distracting armored truck guard outside Brooklyn bank

January 1 – 4, 2023

• Argentinian Artist Paints Celebrities on Banknotes to Boost the Currency’s Value
• Australians are hoarding more banknotes but how far away is a cashless society in a digital world?
• Australia’s 219 crypto ATMs overtake El Salvador’s 212
• Bulgaria – withdrawing a note from circulation
• China – police question forger of US notes
• Contactless acceptance – a natural consequence of ATM evolution
• Denmark – country goes mostly cashless & bank robberies decline
• Germany – in Berlin, cash payments on mass transit will soon be possible again
• India – ACI & India1 Payments expand ATM access in rural areas
• India – counterfeits
• India – currency in circulation has grown by 83% since demonitization
• India – supreme court validates demonitization
• India – how to exchange damaged notes
• Indonesia – toward cashless
• Italy, India & the bumpy road to cashless payments
• InventHelp Inventor Develops Sanitary Product for ATMs
• Nepal – NRB selling 275,000 kg briquettes made up of old banknotes
• Nigeria – scarcity of Naira notes persists
• Nigeria – 50 years ago, Naira introduced as the national currency
• Nigeria – CBN will reduce cash-based transactions by 2025
• Pakistan – financial inclusion
• UK – the right to cash access will soon be enshrined in law
• US – why the US Mint dominates the platinum coin market

December 27 – 31, 2022

• Cameroon – new banknotes
• Canada – black money scam
• Cashless Payments Are Here To Stay. Here’s How To Determine Which Method Is Right For You
• Central African franc note 2022
• Dominican Republic – counterfeits
• India – counterfeits
• Japan Banknotes in Year-End Circulation Hit Another Record High
• Jordan – The JD1 bill got a makeover, what is in store for the rest?
• Kuwait – new method to identify counterfeits
• Liberia – banknote shortages
• Nigeria – customers lament the poor circulation of new banknotes
• Nigeria – update on cash withdrawal limits
• Pakistan – new banknotes
• Post-Colonial Africa Prints Money Overseas, Raising Questions About Self-Sufficiency
• Ukraine – commemorative note

December 21 – 27, 2022

• Antigua – counterfeits
• Argentina – putting Messi on a banknote?
• Central African states – new notes
• Croatia – cash machines moving from Kuna to the Euro
• Ghana – e-levy is inhibiting the move a cashless society
• Greece – cash is king
• Hong Kong – counterfeits
• India – a less-cash society is more feasible than a cashless one
• India – Supreme Court’s constitution bench verdict on demonetisation on January 2
• Jordan – new banknote
• Nepal – counterfeits
• Nigeria – CBN Orders 500 Million Pieces Of Currency For Redesigned Naira Notes
• Nigeria – CBN reconsidering cash withdrawal limit
• Nigeria – CBN spends N800bn on currency production, destruction
• Pakistan – Old design large size banknotes can’t be exchanged post December 31: SBP
• Portugal – cash usage
• Should we force retailers to accept cash? Or anything else? No!
• Syria – Loaded in trucks, pound’s transactions annoy Syrians amid lack of solutions
• Tajikistan – toward cashless
• UK – digital wallet use is low, cash use is persistent
• UK – Cash in crisis as half of bank branches disappear in seven years
• UK – More than 5,000 bank and building society branches closed since 2015
• US – Blind or visually impaired Michiganders can now apply to receive an audible currency reader
• US – 2023 coinage in production at US Mint facilities
• US/New Mexico – ATM skimmer scheme

December 15 – 20, 2022

• ATM Outsourcing Remains a Critical Cost-Cutting Solution for Deployers
• Australia – cash hoarding, where have all the banknotes gone?
• Banknote recycling study 2022
• Cash loses top spot to electronic card payments in eurozone for first time
• DeLaRue – stock falls after profit warning
• Europe – Cash remains the most frequently used means of payment in stores but electronic payments grow further, ECB study shows
• How Paper Money Led to the Mongol Conquest: Money and the Collapse of Song China
• India – counterfeit stats
• Ireland – toward cashless
• Italy waters down plan to promote cash payments after EU criticism
• Jamaica – new notes
• Liberia – new notes & coins
• Moving cash in the digital world
• Nepal – counterfeits
• Nigeria – Banks reconfigure ATMs, new naira enters circulation
• Nigeria – understanding CBNs cash withdrawal limit policy
• Nigeria – counterfeits
• Philippines – BSP – ample supplies of notes & coins available for gifting
• Philippines – polymer notes
• Taiwan – toward cashless
• Turkish tailor irons banknotes believing it kills germs
• UAE – new note
• UK – should or will it become a cashless society
• UK – BoE plan for the decline of cash usage
• When Santa Claus appeared on US currency

December 10 – 15, 2022

• Afghanistan – Deliveries of millions in hard cash prompts concern over financial transparency
• Azerbaijan – toward cashless
• Barbados issues new series of bank notes with updated designs
• Belgium – Qatargate:over 1.5 million euro found with Kaili & Panzeri
• Cameroon – new notes
• Cash Remains Popular Across the UK & Europe Despite Cashless Initiatives & Innovations
• Cash retains its value for small businesses
• Coin laundries & cashless payments
• Currency Sorters Market to Witness Astonishing Growth by 2028
• Europe – EU to put a 10,000-euro limit on cash payments; Transactions over €1,000 in crypto will be scrutinized
• How to Spot a ‘Short Snorter’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower & Marlene Dietrich both belonged to this unusual club
• India – Demonetisation: Cash is not king – Expansion of absolute cash in circulation has to be seen holistically with growth in GDP & uptick in digital transactions
• India – Rs2000 banknotes should be phased out
• India – counterfeits
• Israel – 2,200-year-old coin hoard gives hard proof of Book of Maccabees, say archaeologists
• Italy – In a world of e-payments, Italians defiantly cling to cash
• Nigeria – Cashless Policy: Paternalistic & Out Of Touch
• Nigeria – toward cashless
• Pakistan – deadline for old banknotes to be turned in
• Sudan – new banknote
• Switzerland – on the fr 1000 banknote
• Turkey Prints its Highest-Value Banknote at Record Rate Amid Runaway Inflation
• Ukraine – toward cashless
• UK – 50% of UK’s SMBs say cash is essential
• UK – Shoppers prefer notes & coins to mobile payment apps – Cash remains the second most popular form of payment
• UK – BoE – Bank’s consultation on supervisory approach to wholesale cash distribution – December 2022
• UK – Dirty money rules hit Post Office cash service: Dispute that undermines ability of some small businesses to bank their cash takings
• UK – counterfeits in Yorkshire
• US – toward cashless
• Why Cash is Essential in the 21st Century

December 4 – 10, 2022

• Afghanistan – Herat moneychangers eager for new notes
• ATM at Art Basel has a twist: It posts a picture of you with your bank balance
• ATMIA – Offences Involving ATMs: Insights into How Offenders See ATMs as Targets ($)
• Croatia – 60% of ATMs will not be working in December as the country cuts over to the euro
• Illegal Tender, Richard Phillips, 2022
• India – counterfeits flowing in over the Bangladesh border
• Italian central bank raises concerns over government’s pro-cash plans
• Italy – allowing larger cash payments despite central bank objections
• Jamaica – old notes to be withdrawn gradually as new notes are introduced
• Liberia – the cost of printing one’s currency in another country
• Malta’s excess banknotes sign of heightened economic activity
• Nigeria – CBN cash withdrawal policy
• Nigeria – cashless transactions
• Pakistan – the deadline for exchanging old notes for new notes
• Philippines – Marcos happy with new note, says its smarter & more hygienic
• Security Paper Market Giants Spending Is Going To Boom
• The cutting edge solution to rising debt? Paying in cash
• Uganda – toward cashless
• UK – BRC survey – cash usage halved in 2021
• UK – digital banking with the decline of cash machines
• UK – coins of Charles III
• US Mint directors give behind the scenes insights into the dollar coin\
• US – Diamond and Dybvig and the Panic of 1907
• US – Weed Shops Switch to Cash After Cashless ATM Crackdown
• US – Yellen signed notes
• US – banknotes from the SS Central America auctioned off
• US – Coins found in New England help solve mystery of murderous 1600s pirate: “One of the greatest crimes of the 17th century”

December 1 – 4, 2022

• Africa – cashless payments systems conference
• Barbados – new banknotes
• Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group & Digimarc Corporation Extend Agreement
• China – tons of old coins found in the east
• Croatia – Upgrades on ATMs for an Easier Transition
• De La Rue chairman survives major showdown with investors: Bid to oust Kevin Loosemore fails
• De La Rue profit declines 58 per cent on reduced demand for banknotes
• Financial Inclusion Compass, 2022
• Germany – ATM bombings
• Gold dispensing ATM
• Mexico’s most beautiful notes
• Philippines – BSP exchanging fit for unfit notes
• UAE – new banknote
• UK – counterfeits in Plymouth
• UK – Union questions BoE over cash shortage fears as G4S staff to strike
• US – the security features In US money
• US – Traffic jam as Ohio drivers rush after mystery cash
• US – Yellen to Colbert: ‘I practiced & I practiced’ signature for US currency
• US/NY – counterfeits
• US/Oregon – 2 idiots stole an ATM then accidentally set their van on fire while trying to rob a store

November 26 – 30, 2022

• Cambodia – new notes
• Canada – How a cashless society is fuelling higher tips & profits
• China – financial inclusion
• DeLaRue bracing for a backlash
• Federal Reserve’s 2023 banknote order
• GLORY launches the GLR Series of next generation Teller Cash Recyclers
• India – Fake Currency & Black Money Were Extricated From The System Due To Demonetisation : Attorney General Tells Supreme Court
• India – Doctors discover 187 coins in man’s stomach after he complained he was ‘bloated’
• Indonesia – toward cashless
• Installation of crypto ATMs at a record low
• Ireland – Banks to be told to maintain cash services under proposed law
• Italy – cash as king?
• Nigeria – Naira redesign: 85% of currency in circulation outside banking system – Emefiele
• Romania – commemorative coin
• Serbia – Will the new Nikola Tesla euro coins help Serbia and Croatia value their shared history?
• Switzerland – cash in the digital age
• Turkey – Ottomon coin exhibit
• UK – The tyranny of card-only payments – Why has it become impossible to pay with cash?
• UK – Ealing man fumes as ‘more and more restaurants take cash only’ leaving West London shoppers divided
• US banknotes & in-God-we-trust

November 21 – 26, 2022

• ABA pushes back at new accessibility rules for ATMs & self-service terminals
• Canada – over 1b Canadian coins went out of circulation during Covid lockdown
• Crypto’s Brutal Slump Has Finally Caught Up With Bitcoin ATMs
• De La Rue auditor report
• De La Rue chairman told to quit: Top investor brands latest profit warning a ‘Liz Truss moment’ for banknote boss
• Germany – Celtic gold coins worth ‘several million euros’ stolen from German museum
• Germany Amasses Cash In The Event Blackouts Take Down Payment Systems
• Gold coin proves ‘fake’ Roman emperor was real
• India – Did Cash Get Stuck In A Bank ATM? Here’s How To Solve The Problem
• Jamaica – are the new banknotes really necessary?
• Japan – Bank of Japan, companies test new cutting-edge banknotes in machines
• Liberia: Sarpo Tribe Expresses Dissatisfaction Over being Left Out in the Design of New Liberian dollars Banknotes
• Looted coin of Hanukkah villain found during bust of suspected artifact thief
• Malaysia – toward cashless
• Nepal – Flush with cash, Mr. Pachyderm? Two rhinos spotted at ATM in Nepal
• Nigeria – cash system overripe for disruption
• Pakistan – world’s highest ATM
• Philippines – first QR-operated teller machine
• Scotland – ATM closures in Glasgow
• UK – G4S strike prompts fears of festive cash shortages at banks & shops
• UK – Lorry driver’s left furious after Costa Coffee worker refuses Scottish banknote
• US – “Goldback” bills are accepted in 4 states, but are they a good idea for consumers?
• US/South Dakota – counterfeits

November 15 – 21, 2022

• Afghanistan – Contract Signed to Print 390 Million Afghani Banknotes
• As the world goes cashless, how are our spending habits changing?
• Benefits of going cashless
• Cambodia – Does Cambodia’s 500 Riel banknote have a Nissan Juke & Toyota Camry on it?
• Canada – Amateur historian discovers 600-year-old English coin in Newfoundland
• Cash, resilient or redundant?
• India – Demonetisation a ‘well-considered’ decision to combat black money, terror financing
• India – counterfeiter arrests
• Indonesia – women on banknotes
• Ireland – toward cashless
• Ireland – new banknote
• Kyrgyzstan has 41.8 ATMs per 100,000 people
• Liberia – CBL governor files legal complaint against his deputy over “forged” banknotes
• Nigeria – currency redesign
• Nigeria – counterfeits
• Pakistan – soiled notes
• Scotland – 8,000 silver coins discovered in Scottish field
• Should we all go cashless?
• Thailand – toward cashless
• Uganda – counterfeits
• Ukraine – new coins & notes
• UK – Most Britons still use cash machines as cost of living crisis bites
• UK – old notes that are still in circulation
• UK – Gang who carried out ‘violent’ Bedfordshire robbery raids collectively jailed for more than 100 years
• Using Image Recognition for Banknote Serial Numbers

November 8 – 14, 2022

• Algeria – commemorative note
• Afghanistan – Worn-Out Banknotes Will Be Collected Systematically from Markets
• Afghanistan – new banknotes
• Australian bank notes do not depict Steve Irwin
• Bangladesh – toward cashless
• Bank of Central Africa States – new banknotes
• Banknote volumes & values rose among most responding central banks
• Cambodia – new banknotes
• Canada – 9 things about the $100 bill
• Canada – RCMP investigation leads to arrest warrants for individuals involved in counterfeit money passing ring
• Canada – counterfeit $20s
• Canada – Gold Coin Found on Island of Newfoundland’s South Coast May be Oldest Ever Found in Canada
• CBDC and cash in the euro area: Crowding out or co-circulation?
• Coins of the British/Palestine mandate
• Counterfeiting & the death penalty
• Croatia – euro coins
• DeLaRue – pressure on the chairman
• Egypt – new note
• Gambia – toward cashless
• India – where are all the Rs2000 notes?
• India – PM Modi must release white paper on impact of demonetisation: TNCC chief Alagiri
• India – the disastrous demonitization
• India – what to do if an ATM dispenses mutilated notes
• Introducing Cashless Transaction Index based on the Effective Medium Approximation.
• Japan has stopped printing its current yen bills; Mt Fuji only element to be retained in new set
• Laos – new banknotes
• Malawi – police training on banknotes & counterfeits
• Nigeria – counterfeits
• Portugal – counterfeit US dollar notes
• Research of an optimization model for servicing a network of ATMs and information payment terminals
• Rumor: Has The US Government Banned Dollar Notes Printed Before 2021?
• The authentication technology boom
• The cost of going cashless
• UK – ATM use jumps as cost-of-living payments land in bank accounts
• UK – Britain develops a lead in scrapping cash in everyday payments.
• US – Here’s why cash is still important & necessary when paying, according to consumer advocates
• US/Colorado – counterfeits
• Zimbabwe – $5, $10, $20 Notes Still Legal Tender

November 4 – 8, 2022

• Afghan Banknotes, Like The Economy, Are Crumbling
• Algeria’s newly issued banknotes with English irk French politicians, media
• Australia – counterfeits
• Canada – Bitcoin ATMs
• Central bank boards make most decisions on banknote imagery
• CONTROLTEK Launches First-Ever 90% Post-Consumer Recycled Tamper-Evident Cash Deposit Bag
• Germany to Close Bank Foyers at Night After ATM Bombing Spree
• Global Security Ink Market Analysis till 2027
• India – Failed objectives: Six years after demonetisation, cash is still king, black money is very much around and counterfeit notes are on the rise
• India – Ingredient used in ink for currency note printing developed in Kerala; will cut cost of printing currency by 70%
• India – counterfeits
• India – no new Rs2000 notes printed between 2019 & 2022
• Ireland – Central Bank publishes research examining ATM withdrawals and use of cash before and after the pandemic
• Japan Ends Printing of “Yukichi Fukuzawa” Banknote
• Japan – breaking the cash habit
• Japan – cash habit
• Liberia – new coins
• Nigeria – hoarding of banknotes
• Nigerian governor says redenomination will lessen cash hoarding
• North Koreans turn their backs on the country’s cash vouchers
• Norway Considers Forcing Businesses to Accept Cash
• Philippines – counterfeits
• Saudi Arabia – toward cashless
• Scotland – ATMs & tax exemptions
• South Africa – EC Man jailed for possession of stained bank notes, explosives
• The future of ATMs & branches
• UK – Man found with £1,000 in fake banknotes after trying to buy drink
• UK – Could ditching your card and using cash help you budget?
• US – on the design of banknotes
• US/Arkansas – movie money
• US/New York – antebellum banknotes
• Why we cannot let cash die

November 1 – 4, 2022

• Albania – counterfeits
• ATM Skimmers: Fear Mongering Or A Real Threat?
• Australia – banknote demand rising as people hoard cash
• Banknotes generally have at least one aid for visually impaired
• Bitcoin ATM Operator Indicted in New York Allegedly Running Illegal Business Attracting Criminals
• Cardless ATM market size to grow by $2.11b, 53% of market growth to originate from North America.
• Cash logistics market study
• Collecting counterfeit currency
• India – government seeks 3 color shift security thread for banknotes
• Laos – new notes
• Latvia – ATM access agreement
• Nigeria’s Central Bank Doubles Down on Plans to Introduce Newly Designed Naira Banknotes
• Nigeria – CBN destroys over N6tn banknotes under Buhari
• Nigeria – currency design
• Pakistan – counterfeits
• Philippines – BSP defaces 520 MT of coins unfit for circulation
• Portable & low-cost hologram verification module using a snapshot-based hyperspectral imaging algorithm
• Portugal – €156 million in expired escudos
• Researchers unveil secrets of the largest stash of Roman coins ever found in Spain
• South Africa – multilingual coins
• South Africa – how to spot counterfeit notes
• UK – Charles III on the L5 note?
• UK – toward cashless
• UK – Bank branches are closing down in the UK as a part of the transition into a cashless society and to restrict people’s free will.
• US – Unique New Jersey $3 Bank Note Surfaces From S.S. Central America Sunken Treasure
• US – proposed federal legislation to protect ATMs
• US/Tennessee – toward cashless
• Will ITMs Replace ATMs as the Main Self-Service Branch Channel?
• Zambia – toward cashless

October 26 – 31, 2022

• Africa – mobile tech & financial inclusion
• Argentina – Tourists Pay With Wads of Cash as Argentina Inflation Nears 100%
• Australia – floods damage $10 million in banknotes
• Australia – the price to be paid for cashless convenience
• Banknote contagion measures reduced in 2022
• Europe – Use of cash by companies in the euro area
• Jordan – $1 million in counterfeit US dollar notes seized
• Liberia – new notes
• Nigeria – new notes
• Nigeria – banknote history
• Nigeria – new notes
• Paper-based banknotes still outnumber polymer substrates
• Philippines – polymer notes in ATMs
• Philippines – cashless payments & financial inclusion
• Philippines – ATM hacking
• The number of Bitcoin ATMs
• UK – coins with King Charles III
• US – cashless payments & tipping
• US – 1795 Half Dollar Speaks Volumes of US Mint History
• US – who makes our coins & bills
• Zimbabwe – IMF Believes Zimbabwe’s Gold Coins are a Missed Chance to Build the Nation’s Gold Reserves

October 20 – 26, 2022

• Afghanistan – new notes
• ATM Marketplace – 2022 ATM & Self-Service Software Trends
• Australia – Counterfeit cash featuring Ray Meagher and Steve Irwin stolen in bizarre NT burglary
• Brazil – crypto ATMs
• Burundi – new note
• Cash Logistics Market Is Likely To Witness Substantial Increase In Demand & Growth
• China arrests Tian Huiyu, disgraced former CMB president, following Xi Jinping’s pledge of zero tolerance for corruption
• Diebold Nixdorf announces agreement with key financial stakeholders to support debt refinancing
• Digital currencies & financial inclusion
• Europe – which countries are going cashless
• Europe – ATM bombings
• India – RBI note printing units to explore feasibility of minting foreign currency
• India – Demonetisation behind Buoyancy in Tax Collections says RBI MPC Member Ashima Goyal
• India – Gandhi & the notes of the country
• India – ATM disgorges counterfeit notes
• Indonesia – Governor urges people to handle physical currency properly
• Indonesia – new notes
• Indonesia – banknote history
• Japan – cashless convenience stores
• J.S.G. Boggs’s estate has minted the late artist’s drawings of banknotes, which questioned the value of money, as NFTs
• Kazakhstan – new note
• Malta – One in three Maltese find it ‘difficult’ to access ATMs & bank branches
• Most central banks have no near term new note issuance plans
• Most central banks do not own their own note printing facilities
• Nigeria – counterfeits
• Nigeria – new notes
• Pakistan – SBP establishes deadline for turning old style notes
• Philippines – Use of polymer to save BSP up to P2.4 B in costs
• Philippines – toward cashless
• Philippines – BSP urges public to make use of coins for payment
• Scotland – Obituary: Bob Maiden, former managing director of RBS whose signature graced 350 million banknotes
• Thailand – counterfeits
• UK – A cash-free society only benefits well-off shoppers & faceless financial companies
• US/New York – Cash or Card for a Cone? Van Leeuwen Must Take Both, NYC Says.
• US – toward cashless
• US/NYC & the cashless ban
• What the Payment Choice Act means for cash.

October 14 – 19, 2022

• Are gold coins pure gold?
• Australian banks close hundreds of branches and ATMs as services move online
• Bahrain – toward cashless
• Canada – 36-year old $5 note rejected at a coffee shop
• Canada – Royal Mint, new gold coin
• Cashless – the shifting landscape of ticketing
• China’s cashless revolution
• Demand for ATMs
• Demand for cash in turbulent times
• Federal Reserve of Cleveland highlights the Negro Leagues with ‘Triple Play’ exhibit
• Germany – card payments vs cash payments
• Heroes & villains on banknotes & coins
• India – ATM fraud
• India – counterfeits
• India – banknote press adding staff
• Iran – new note
• Kenya – Why Joseph Kinyua’s Signature Was On the Old Ksh1000 Note
• Malaysia – cashless parking stalls seniors
• Malaysia – banking on old banknotes
• Pakistan – Total number of new currency notes printed by SBP from 2018-2022
• Pakistan – Fact-check: Does new Pakistan banknote omit anti-corruption message?
• Philippines – BSP & cashless payments
• Philippines – abaca for banknotes
• Philippines – polymer notes
• Putting King Charles III on British currency bucks a global trend to honor diverse national heroes on coins & bills
• Rising demand for cashless & contactless payments ($)
• South Africa – ATM bombings
• South Africa – ATM attackers abandoning angle-grinders for bombs
• Spain – What to do if an automatic cash machine does not correctly dispense your money
• Thai ATMs no longer accept cardless cash deposits
• Turkey – damaged notes
• Uganda – is physical money destined to disappear?
• UK – Knocked down during lockdown: the return of cash
• What Types of People Appear Most on International Currencies?

October 10 – 14, 2022

• Abu Dhabi – toward cashless
• ATMIA – webinar – Cash Recycling: Managing Net Pay Cash Instead of Dispensed Cash, 10/26/2022.
• Australia – RBA – portraits of value
• Ecuador and Venezuela Face Differing Invasions of Fake US Dollars
• Enhancing banknote authentication by guiding attention to security features & prevalence expectancy.
• Finnish households urged to hoard cash in case of disruptions
• India – who profited from demonetization?
• India – what are rupees made of?
• Ireland – ATM use
• Liberia – counterfeits
• Meta Materials (MMAT) Stock Heats Up on Partnership Hopes
• Nigeria – growth of the cashless economy
• NPR Fresh Air podcast – 10/12/2022 – exploring the history of money
• Pakistan – counterfeit dispensed by an ATM in Karachi
• Paraguay – new currency series in 2023
• SICPA, UbiQD Develop QD-Based Anti-Counterfeit Security Inks
• Singapore – ATM use
• South Africa – street vendors & the cashless world
• Thailand – seizure of fake US currency
• This is how many Americans never use cash
• Ukraine – withdrawal of 2003-2007 banknotes
• UK – Royal Mint record profits
• US – Delaware retailers must accept cash under new law
• US/Wisconsin – movie money turning up in Green Bay
• Zimbabwe – deteriorated US currency
• Zimbabwe – government minister says tattered US currency is “not our problem.”

October 4 – 10, 2022

• As more consumers go cashless, here’s why you may still want to have some money handy
• Bangladesh – cash-on-delivery still dominates ecommerce payments
• Barbados – polymer notes
• Cameroon – new notes & coins
• Canada – US counterfeits
• Cash decline looks very different across demographics
• Croatia – banknote history
• Diebold Nixdorf: Cash Machine Maker Out Of Cash
• G&D – Showtime for a new design – Both fascinating & forgery-proof
• IMF – 2022 financial access survey results
• India – counterfeits
• Liberia – CBL exchanging old notes for new
• Namibia – counterfeits
• North America – toward cashless
• Pakistan – counterfeits
• Pox on the cashless society
• Spain – counterfeit seizure
• Spain – going cashless?
• Switzerland – 1000 franc note is unnecessary
• The future of sustainable banknotes
• UK – exhibition of defaced banknotes
• US – military payment certificates
• US – more Americans are joining the cashless economy
• US/Massachusetts – Man Used Mr. Clean Magic Erasers To Change $1 Bills Into $100: Officials
• Zimbabwe – surviving on tattered USD notes

September 30 – October 4, 2022

• Australia’s complicated history with the faces on its banknotes
• BOK Financial alleges defective ATMs made by Texas company cost bank $7.3 million in cash
• Brink’s Acquires NoteMachine for Approximately $179 Million to Accelerate ATM Managed Services Strategy
• Canada – 5c coin might disappear next
• Cashless Consumer Creates Need for Secure Connectivity
• China – The Rise & Fall of Paper Money in Yuan China, 1260-1368
• Cuba – ATM problems
• De La Rue activist Crystal Amber seeks board seat at banknote printer
• Egypt – polymer note
• Euronet Worldwide Expands ATM Network Into Southeast Asia
• Finland – ATM network swamped by Russian withdrawals
• India – why is Gandhi on the currency
• India – counterfeits
• India – counterfeits 2
• Israel – Dozens of pure gold coins discovered in secret cache dating from Muslim conquest
• Japan – cash in circulation declines for the first time since 2012
• Kazakhstan replaces ex-leader with eagle on banknote
• Malaysia – counterfeiting is low
• Net Bitcoin ATMs growth drops globally for the first time ever
• Pakistan – world’s highest ATM
• Pakistan – new note
• Spectra Systems amends central bank contract upwards
• UK – New coin designs for King Charles III released by the UK’s Royal Mint
• UK – Scottish note rejected at McDonalds
• US – Digital money might be coming, but should cash go away? New bill addresses issue
• US – enhanced $10 note anticipated in 2026
• US – Sen Lankford moves to save folding money
• Where cash is hiding inside your washing machine
• Why a large number of businesses are not cashless

September 24 – 30, 2022

• Afghanistan – banknotes are falling apart, like the economy
• ASEAN – a common currency?
• ATMIA – webinar – Cash Recycling: Managing Net Pay Cash Instead of Dispensed Cash, 10/26/2022
• Australia – no Charles III on the $5
• Australia – merchant cash acceptance falls
• Australia – 2022 payments system trends report
• Brazil – bank tests ATMs & sign language
• Burundi – new notes
• DeLaRue Currency Report IIIQ 2022
• Factors to Consider When Buying a Money Counter Machine for Small Business
• Greece – crypto ATMs
• Indonesia – new banknotes
• Ireland – cashless society would discriminate against the elderly
• Meta Materials secures $4.3M purchase for anti-counterfeiting nano technology
• Nepal – banknote exchange
• Next-Generation ATMs: Innovations & Updates
• Pakistan – commemorative note
• Philippines – Senators prefer banknotes made of abaca not polymer
• Philippines – counterfeits
• Philippines – BSP urged to stop changing banknote design
• Russians empty Finnish ATMs with Chinese bank cards
• Security Papers Ltd
• Singapore – Man jailed in 2019 for making fake banknotes gets another 5 years for repeating offence, using same templates
• Somalia – counterfeits
• Switzerland needs to scrap the F1000 note
• Thailand – printing error on a lot of notes
• UK – Can plastic banknotes be recycled & does the Royal Mint do it?
• UK – King Charles III will not appear on banknotes until mid 2024
• US – 1882 $100 Gold Certificate Now Worth Over $700,000
• US – history of the New Orleans Mint, part 1
• US – history of the New Orleans Mint, part 2

September 18 – 23, 2022

• ATM Marketplace – webinar – 2022 ATM & Self-service Software Trends & Analysis, 10/11/2022
• ATMs, recyclers help meet cash management challenges
• Australia – Coin minting & note printing make wild profits but they could be at risk
• Canada – Cash, COVID-19 & the Prospects for a Canadian Digital Dollar
• Continuous improvement at the cash factory
• Costly truth for banks – cash payments are down but not out
• Federal Reserve & cash visibility
• Financial Inclusion Index
• Financial inclusion may be out of the reach of CBDC
• G&D – BPS M5: unsurpassed productivity for the commercial high speed world
• Ghana – financial inclusion
• Greece – banks want to sell off money-losing remote ATMs
• Hungary – new banknote?
• India – counterfeiter arrest
• India – banknotes & the visually impaired
• Indonesia – South Sulawesi: BI helps resident exchange money damaged in fire.
• Japan – toward cashless
• More performance venues going cashless for concessions
• Nepal – Pakistani ISI agent who funneled counterfeits to India is shot
• Nigeria – counterfeits
• Nigeria – CBN Begins Arrest of Nigerians Selling New Naira Notes at Weddings, Other Event Centres, Lists Punishments
• Sierra Leone – cash shortages
• UbiQD & SICPA Expand Partnership On Anti-Counterfeit Security Links
• UK – the future of cash
• Using Thin Film Sensors in Anti-Counterfeiting Efforts
• US – proposed caps on card fees would shift card costs to cash users
• US/Michigan – counterfeits in Detroit

September 12 – 18, 2022

• Argentina – Inflation effect: the printing of the $1000 bill multiplied almost sixfold in the last two years
• Australians are campaigning for national icons like Steve Irwin and Evonne Goolagong to become the new face of the $5 bill
• Australia’s best $5 bank note suggestions
• Bangladesh- new notes
• Bangladesh – ATM fraud ring arrests
• Canadians Do Not Want This Man on Their Money
• Canada – counterfeits in New Brunswick
• Cost of the makeover of currency & coin upon Elizabeth II’s death
• Egypt – new coin
• Foreign coins struck by the US Mint during World War II
• Gabon government opponent arrested with 1.8 million euros on his return from the Republic of Congo
• GLORY Announces Next Generation Retail Cash Recycling Solutions
• India – counterfeits
• India – nothing can stop the flow of fake currency
• Irish central bank will still exchange old banknotes & coins
• India – convenience fees on digital payment transactions will reduce cashless payments
• India – counterfeits
• India – Kingpin of interstate ATM robbers gang nabbed
• Israel – Rare, stolen 2,000-year-old silver coin returned to Israeli authorities in US
• Lack of Transparency is Hindering Access to Services & Financial Inclusion
• Netherlands – ATM bombings in 2022
• Philippines – toward cashless
• Say Hello to Crazy Thin ‘Deep Insert’ ATM Skimmers
• Spain – man has 9 million pesetas of old notes in jars
• UK – People race to exchange paper banknotes before deadline
• UK – counterfeits in Yorkshire
• US – BEP criticized
• US – its times to start paying with $2 bills
• US – how to detect fake currency
• Yellen banknotes are finally coming

September 5 – 12, 2022

• Australia – cash-in-transit firms
• Australia – What happens to Australia’s money now the Queen has died? And why are leaders’ faces on coins anyway?
• Azerbaijan – toward cashless
• Bitcoin ATMs are spreading They’re legal but can be tools for cyber crooks.
• Canada – will be getting new note & coin designs after death of Queen Elizabeth II
• Cash Management Myths that May Be Holding Your Business Back
• China – Genghis Khan’s grandson introduced paper money—and inadvertently tanked the Mongol Empire
• Egypt – Archaeologists discover Islamic coin haul
• Extra Star On Byzantine Coin Could Be “Heretical” Depiction Of A Supernova
• Fluorescent Pigments Market 2030 – An analysis of emerging markets through 2030, including company profiles, historical data & growth factors
• Hungary – 100,000,000 billion Hungarian pengő: the world’s highest denomination ever
• India – RBI & a currency paper mill
• Is Cash Still King for Restaurant Goers? Exploring the Trend of Cashless Payments
• Japan – is a cashless society desirable?
• Kuwait – CBK suspends establishment of company to manage cash
• Nigeria – toward cashless
• Philippines – BSP sues 5 people for mutilating banknotes
• Rare Byzantine coin may show a ‘forbidden’ supernova explosion from A.D. 1054
• UK – Bank of England says banknotes featuring Queen’s image remain legal tender
• UK – high denomination paper banknotes will be out of circulation by the end of September
• UK – the copper coinage of George III
• UK – Why King Charles’s profile may face left on British coins, & why it matters.
• UK – Could automation stem UK branch & ATM closures?
• US – No, there isn’t a federal law that requires businesses to accept cash
• US Mint suspends production of 2022 Kennedy 50c coins
• US – is there still a national coin shortage
• Welcome to the post-cash retail world
• What can ATMs learn from kiosks?

September 1 – 5, 2022

• America needs a civic group to oppose a cashless society
• Cash Money as a Saving Mode.
• Global Cash Logistics Market Report 2022: A $25+ Billion Industry by 2026 – Mobile ATMs Trend Gaining Popularity ($)
• How money was born: The small seashell & the fierce Maldivian queen that made the modern world.
• Indonesia – new notes
• Ireland – toward cashless
• Ireland – the unbanked, cash & cashless
• Japan – Man disguised as cop steals 22 million yen in cash & gold
• Latvia – Exchange of hryvnia to euro
• Liberia – CBL launches an awareness campaign on currency reform
• Malaysia – cash vs cashless
• Market Assessment of Automated Teller Machine Industry ($)
• Netherlands – Amsterdam could ban many ATMs to stop explosive robberies
• Nigeria – 17 ATMs for every 100,000 Nigerians
• Scotland – toward cashless
• September 2, 1969 – first ATM in the United States.
• This is What a Crumbling Cash Infrastructure Looks Like
• UK – Coins worth up to $290,000 found under kitchen floorboards
• UK – is it time we became a cashless society.
• UK – Two-thirds of free cash machines in UK could vanish, experts warn
• UK – first tri-colored Scottish note sold at auction
• US – crypto ATMs in California

August 25 – 31, 2022

• Cyprus – cashless benefits have unintended consequences
• G&D firm claims exclusive new security device
• GLORY Launches Next Generation Teller Cash Recyclers
• India – 8 labourers steal 86 gold coins of archaeological importance found while digging house in MP
• India – man arrested for stealing from 140 ATMs
• India – counterfeits
• India – ATM withdrawal rules of top banks
• Indonesia – the cashless society & GDP
• Liberia – CBL withdrawing low denomination banknotes from circulation
• Nepal – new banknotes
• NYC banks shutting doors overnight to ATM users to keep out homeless
• Philippines – Anti-cybercrime group busts vloggers, social media influencers for viral videos defacing banknotes
• Russians Getting Cash from Finnish ATMs via Chinese Cards
• Scotland – pubs and chippies are being ‘destroyed’ by cashless society
• Smart safes deliver retail success
• Tanzania – toward cashless
• UK – Cash has just five years left, warns ATM boss
• UK – the end of paper substrate banknotes
• US – toward cashless

August 17 – 25, 2022

• Americans Using Cash Less Often; Foresee Cashless Society
• ATMs & cashless
• Australia – Crime increased in areas trialling cashless debit card programs, government analysis suggests
• Australia – Review of Banknote Distribution Arrangements: Conclusions Paper
• Bangladesh -cash recycling machines
• Bangladesh – toward cashless
• Cayman Islands – counterfeits
• Compact Banknote Sorter market valuation to surge at healthy CAGR through 2028
• Facts about paper money
• India – counterfeits
• India – counterfeits 2
• Iran – new banknotes
• Nigeria – CBN’s cashless policy
• Nigeria – CBDC vs cash
• On the persistent demand for cash
• Philippines – BSP introduces coin deposit machines
• Profiting from authentication technology
• The Dollar’s Primacy
• UK – Tesco store in Bicester has not had cash for six weeks
• UK – is cash dead? Yes & No.
• UK – Free to use ATMs decline by 25% as more people turn to cash in cost of living crisis
• UK – Eight reasons why cash is king in Britain -In a world of online banking, notes and coins chime with our libertarian sensibilities
• UK’s Currency Is Going To Look A Lot Different After Charles Becomes King
• UK – Scottish counterfeits
• US – Death to Pennies: A Majority of Voters Support Stopping the Production of New Pennies
• US – Mint coin production through July 2022
• US – history of the 20 cent piece
• US – 1907 Saint-Gaudens high relief double eagle
• US – Treasury OIG report offers Denver Mint theft details
• What comes after cashless

August 13 – 17, 2022

• Afghanistan – Businessmen in trouble as banks deny fractional banknotes
• Bosnia & Herzegovina – Central Bank of BiH sends Notice about Additional Banknotes
• Countries most reliant on cash
• Europe – demand for banknotes is diminishing
• Fighting poverty with direct cash payments
• G&D on cash operations in casinos
• Ghana – CBDC & financial inclusion
• How common has private currency been?
• Ireland – Circulating fake €2 coins seized
• Morocco – the world’s most cash-reliant country
• Next-Gen ATMs Are a Key Part of Banks’ Digital Strategy
• Nigeria – toward cashless
• Norway, Finland and New Zealand top list of countries closest to becoming cashless
• Oman – toward cashless
• On the stabilizing role of cash for societies
• Pakistan – When Pakistan did not have the ability to print its notes and was fighting a war with India
• South Africa – counterfeits
• Spectra gets first order for banknote disinfection system
• Spectra Systems books additional US$4mln from bank note contract
• Top 5 services used at ATMs
• UK – fake Scottish L50 note
• Wales – Money launderer who used home as a ‘cash house’ had £250,000 stuffed under his bed
• Which countries use the euro as a currency
• Will ITMs Replace ATMs As the Main Self-Service Branch Technology?

August 7 – 13, 2022

• Australia has moved beyond the need for money. That’s not to say we should ditch it yet, though
• China – noncash payments trends
• Colombia – how to authenticate notes
• Cyprus – counterfeits
• Germany – why cash is still so popular
• Ghana – currency history
• Hungary – cash in circulation
• I saw the future of cashless payments— & it’s expensive
• India – counterfeit stats
• Iran – new note
• Malta – excess demand for banknotes
• Mexico – cashless payments
• No, there’s no federal law requiring businesses accept cash payments – However, Washington DC is one of a growing number of localities to enact local laws preventing “cash discrimination.”
• Pakistan – commemorative banknote
• Philippines – BSP, PNP ramp up campaign vs counterfeiters
• Philippines – cashless payments
• Portals, De La Rue reach settlement over paper contract
• Qatar – ban on cash transactions to tackle money laundering
• South Africa – counterfeits
• UK – cashless retail
• UK – People are using cash to budget as July sees record number of withdrawals, Post Office says
• UK – Post Office & cash withdrawals
• UK Finance – Cash crisis, what crisis
• UK – Co-op pledges free ATMs in every store to save communities from becoming ‘cash deserts’
• Understanding the war on cash
• US/Massachusetts – local currency in the Berkshires is going digital
• Vietnam – toward cashless

August 1 – 6, 2022

• Canada – what is the cost of the cashless society
• Canada – counterfeit currency
• France building new euro note printing plant
• Germany – counterfeit euro notes in decline
• Global crypto ATM market
• Guaranteeing freedom of payment choice: access to cash in the euro area
• How ATMs deliver remittances
• India – cash usage in the aftermath of demonitization
• India Bank Note Use Shifts
• India – Decrease in circulation of fake ₹2000 notes from 2018-19: Centre to Lok Sabha
• Indonesia – counterfeit bust
• Ireland – Gardaí warn public to be aware of fake €2 coins
• Is cashless culture killing tips?
• Kenya – central bank denies there is a shortage of low denom bills
• Liberia – coin use
• Luxembourg – cash is no longer king but its holding its own
• Malawi – central bank denies it is planning to issue a new note
• Malaysia – cashless & digital government
• Morocco – MAD 1.1 Million Fake Banknotes Were in Circulation in Morocco in 2021
• Northern Ireland – counterfeit notes
• Qatar imposes ban on cash transactions to tackle fraud
• Satan’s Bank Note – In the early 19th century ‘filthy rags’ – or banknotes – became a common form of currency. A surge in forgery followed, accompanied by a surge in harsh prosecutions. How did we get from gold to paper?
• Time to say goodbye to cash? How fintech is shaking up payments
• Tritec’s ATMs Continue to Streamline Business Operations With Smoother Transactions and Cash Flow for All
• UK – Norwich detectorists describe Roman gold coin hoard find
• UK – What you need to know about cash stuffing as the money-saving trend takes off
• US – warning about fentanyl exposure from found notes is totally bogus
• Uzbekistan – new note
• What’s on the horizon for retail ATMs.
• With Covid now in year two, some consumers return to cash payments

July 28 – 31, 2022

• Bank of New Zealand partners NCR for ATM-as-a-Service
• India – counterfeits
• India – financial inclusion
• Ireland – AIB regrets cashless outlets plan
• Israel will ban cash payments over $4,400 on Monday
• Italy – He hides the money in the photocopier, forgets it and takes it to the landfill: shredding one million euro banknotes
• Jamaica – currency history
• Kuwait – central bank asks public not to mutilate banknotes
• Ukraine – cash in circulation
• UK – cashless society, how can charities benefit

July 23 – 28, 2022

• Australia – cashless debit cards to be abolished
• Australia – counterfeits
• Bangladesh – drive against dollar hoarders
• Canada – consumers leaving cash behind
• De La Rue ends supply agreement with Portals Paper
• Ghana – counterfeits
• Going for gold: How the Confederacy hatched an audacious plan to finance their war
• Gold Weights & Wind Scales in the Asante Empire
• India – SBI ATM withdrawal rules
• India – counterfeit bust
• India – ‘Mountain of cash’ recovered from Arpita Mukherjee’s flat, read how note counting machine works!
• Ireland – Why banks need to maintain cash services for customers
• Ireland – cashless impersonal banks
• Israel – 1850 year-old coin featuring a zodiac found off Israeli coast
• Jamaica – banknote history
• Kenya – shortage of low denom banknotes
• Kenya – CBK on note shortage
• Kyrgyzstan: Where have all the dollars gone?
• Multispectral camera detects defects both on and under the surface
• Portals announces Overton Mill closure
• Protecting access to cash
• Scotland – Why greater financial inclusion is crucial amid the accelerating decline of cash
• Sierra Leone Limits Cash Withdrawal After Currency Reboot
• Solomon Islands – counterfeits
• ‘This Is Very Dangerous’: If You See Folded Money on the Floor Like This, Do Not Pick It Up—Here’s Why
• UK – 1 in 10 attempting to save money are making fewer contactless payments
• UK – Emirati kingpin smuggled L100m in banknotes out of Britain on commercial flights
• US/Michigan – ‘Nearly impossible to trace’ – Michigan couple loses $350,000 in bitcoin ATM scam
• Uzbekistan Introduces New 200,000 Soum Banknotes
• World Bank on financial inclusion around the world
• Worldwide Crypto ATM Industry is Projected to Reach $472 Million by 2027

July 15 – 23, 2022

• Afghanistan – problem of worn out banknotes
• Bahrain – counterfeits
• Crane Currency promotes paper over polymer
• Croatia – euro coins
• Evaluation Central Bank Survey ‘Recycling of Banknotes’ by BIN
• Germany – counterfeit stats
• History of banknotes
• How soon will the world be cashless
• Hyosung America Launches Four New Products Set to Empower Cash Management and Enable Cash-to-Digital Experiences
• India – counterfeits
• Ireland – AIB to turn 70 branches cashless as it expands An Post services deal
• Ireland – toward cashless
• Israel – addiction to credit cards
• Mobile wallets & financial inclusion in the developing world
• Netherlands – Aldi opens Dutch cashless Shop&Go
• Netherlands – more ATMs will be out of service this summer
• Nigeria – toward cashless
• Nina Otero-Warren – Latina champion of women’s voting rights and education in New Mexico – will soon grace US quarters
• Philippines – Stapled banknotes still acceptable – BSP
• Rwanda – toward cashless
• Sierra Leone – new banknote
• Study reveals the Pantone references of banknotes around the world
• Ukraine – How Medieval Money Shaped Ukraine’s Modern Identity
• UK – Bank of England & the preservation of cash
• UK – cash is fundamental to human life
• UK – Queen’s signature to appear on coins for the first time
• UK – Hidden detail on Queen’s neck in £5 note – that can only be seen with a laser
• US – BEP & the Harriett Tubman note
• US – How a small change to U.S. quarters is part of a big trend in logo design
• US – Policy Updates Help Independent ATM Operators and Cash Users
• Uzbekistan Introduces 200,000-Som Banknote To Ease Cash Payments
• Vietnam – toward cashless
• West Africa – the changing landscape of payments
• Zimbabwe – gold coins & inflation

July 5 – 15, 2022

• Argentina – Banks request permission to destroy Argentine peso bills: why is this?
• Bitcoin ATMs are Vexing Rulemakers
• Cashless payment in vending reduces your total cost of ownership
• Cashless future: Can big data change how we pay?
• Crane Currency promotes Motion Surface security device on notes
• Cyprus – counterfeit dollars
• Egypt – issuance of notes & coins
• FinCEN Issues Statement on BSA Due Diligence for Independent ATM Owners & Operators
• Germany – love & dependence on cash is diminishing
• Hyosung America makes Bitcoin purchasing app available to 175,000 ATMs
• India – counterfeits
• Louisenthal – green banknote
• Pakistan – toward cashless
• Philippines – Will folded P1,000 polymer banknote be accepted for payment?
• South Korea – toward cashless
• Sudan – new banknote
• UK – Cash machine comeback: 100 community ATMs have now been installed to provide free access to cash
• UK – counterfeits
• UK – Ancient hoard of gold Roman coins discovered in plowed UK field
• Unattended retail & cashless payments
• US – toward cashless
• US/NY – cupcake ATM

June 30 – July 5, 2022

• Afghanistan – counterfeit US dollars
• Canada – why would anyone counterfeit the lowly toonie?
• China – the e-CNY & ATMs
• Chinese central bank to patent its digital renminbi ATM/CDM
• Croatia – on loading ATMs with new notes
• Egypt – ATM fees2
• Egypt – polymer notes
• Germany – arrests in ATM attacks
• India – cash in circulation
• India – counterfeits
• India – RBI norms on banknote authentication
• India – RBI & mutilated currency
• Keeping employees, technicians safe during ATM crime wave
• Nepal – counterfeits
• Nigeria – electronic payments vs cash & cheques
• Pakistan – ATM fees
• Philippines – Public reminded: Stapling new polymer bills is against the law
• Russia’s new 100 rouble banknote is impossible to withdraw from ATMs after Western firms that program cash machine quit the country following Ukraine invasion
• Sierra Leone – new banknotes
• UK – behind the scenes at the Royal Mint
• UK – Cash or card? Shoppers confused as some retailers refuse to take ‘real’ money… but a minority still prefer it
• UK – ‘Exceptional’ Roman gold coin hoard found near Norwich
• UK – The Royal Mint reveals its 10 rarest 50p coins – see how much they are worth
• US – Harriett Tubman $20
• US – why the government replaces damaged banknotes
• US – redesigning the dollar
• Zimbabwe – gold bullion coins to fight inflation

June 26 – 30, 2022

• Canadian Banknote – webinar – latest banknote technologies & developments, 7/5-6/2022.
• India – RBI ask banks to test note sorting machines on quarterly basis
• Sierra Leone slashes ‘zeros of shame’ from banknotes
• UK – Teesside defies the ‘death of the wallet’ as it is revealed 92 per cent of residents still use cash while Cardiff sees the UK’s lowest level of people who carry cash

June 22 – 26, 2022

• ATMIA Announces a New President of the ATM Security Association
• Australia – Banks Are Closing ATMs Like It’s Going Out Of Fashion So Sorry Dad, Cash Is No Longer King
• Crises keep demand for cash high, banknote machine company says
• DeLaRue – banking on a turnaround
• Do ancient coins record the supernova of 1054?
• India – Cash deposit machines turn unfriendly towards ₹2,000 notes
• India – why is currency in circulation growing rapidly, as digital payments are soaring
• Israel – how much cash do Israelis carry in their wallets
• Nigeria – ATMs dispensing dirty & mutilated notes
• Pakistan – new banknote
• Philippines – toward cashless
• Philippines – BSP, new currency production facility
• Spain – Construction ends on euro bank note printing plant
• Taiwan – Chiang Kai-shek to be removed from banknotes
• Ultra-thin film creates vivid 3D images with large field of view
• UK – just 100 days left to spend your L100 & L50 paper notes
• UK – ATM origins
• UK – why paper banknotes are finally on their way out
• US – the first ATM in the country
• US – the first ATM, a video
• US Mint is rethinking 2 centuries of coin design
• Vietnam – toward cashless

June 18 – 22, 2022

• Afghanistan – production of new banknotes
• America & paper currency
• Argentina Keeps Redesigning Its Currency, Solving Nothing
• ATMs & the sounds they make
• Bahrain – toward cashless
• Belgium – toward cashless
• Coal company scrip paid to miners often left them deep in debt
• India – banknote substrate
• India – RBI spending on currency production
• Ireland – counterfeiting
• Japan – Going Cashless: Governments Point Reward Program vs. COVID-19
• Liberia – coin shortage being investigated
• NCR & crypto ATMs
• Nigeria – Guidelines for the registration and operation of bank neutral cash hubs
• North Korea – new high denomination note
• Northern Ireland –  polymer note
• Philippines – BSP reviews local currencies with low demand,
• The war on cash
• UK – financial inclusion
• UK – Hybrid working behind fraud spike as Britain becomes more cashless – A new report reveals that fraud has risen on the back of the pandemic, but so has the push towards turning societies cashless
• US – digital currency & the unbanked
• US – First Native American woman set to be US treasurer
• US – Yellen’s signature on the dollar
• US/NY – Brazen NYC bank thief makes off with $200,000 from ‘unlocked’ ATM
• Why Bitcoin ATMs are now everywhere: The real story

June 11 – 18, 2022

• Australia – What Can You Do With Your Damaged Banknotes?
• Australia – recent trends in counterfeiting
• Banks & the cashless society
• Canada – counterfeit coins
• Czech Republic – old series banknotes to be demonetized at yearend
• Europe – on going cashless
• India – counterfeits
• Ireland – on exchanging old notes for new notes
• Is cash obsolete
• Is cash still king? Examining physical money in a digital world
• Is the ATM still relevant?
• Jamaica – new banknotes
• Kenya – penalties for defacing Kenyan currency
• North Korea – cybercrime
• Pakistan – old style banknotes must be returned for new by 12/31/2022
• Philippines – how to handle polymer notes
• Philippines – financial inclusion & the digital transformation of the financial sector
• Portugal – on the swapping of unfit notes for fit
• Say goodbye to paper money — banks are quietly working to get rid of cash
• South Africa – not introducing R500 note
• Taiwan – polymer notes
• UK – fake Scottish notes
• UK – toward cashless
• UK – not leaving people behind as the country moves toward cashless
• UK – One in five would struggle to cope in a cashless UK
• UK – RSA cash census
• UK – RSA cash census report
• US – coin shortage continues
• US – continental coins & currency
• US/Connecticut – ATM skimming
• US/NYC – ATM theft gang

June 5 -10, 2022

• ATMIA launches nationwide effort to help consumers recognize typical cryptocurrency fraud schemes
• Australia – the move to cashless & the impact on tips
• Canada -on the elimination of low denomination coins
• Central America – Mastercard & financial inclusion
• Czech Republic – Rare 17th century coin sold for €4 million in Prague
• Financial inclusion in emerging markets
• Germany – Gold Swindler: Cops Bust Crooks Selling Thousands Of Dollars In Fake QE II Gold Coins
• Germany – toward cashless
• India – micro ATMs
• India – how RBI creates & distributes currency
• India – counterfeit currency gang members arrested
• India – history of the Rs10,000 note
• Ireland – businesses divided on going cashless within a decade
• Malaya -colonial banknotes
• Mobile payments are driving the cashless revolution
• Nigeria – digital currency & financial inclusion
• Offences Involving ATMs: Insights into How Offenders See ATMs as Targets ($)
• Philippines – counterfeiter arrest
• Producing & securing banknotes: A niche market that requires a certain know-how
• South Africans have ‘no appetite’ for R10 coin or R500 note
• Sudan – new banknote amid accelerating inflation
• Thailand – toward cashless
• UAE – toward cashless
• UK – polymer notes
• UK – 42 per cent of consumers reliant on cash to help them budget during cost of living crisis
• UK – beware the dangers of a cashless society
• UK – Royal Mint & the cashless society

June 1 – 5, 2022

• ATMIA announces New CEO for its Next Level Future
• Australia – Is it illegal for businesses not to accept cash?
• Bitcoin ATM installations record low in May, biggest drop since 2019
• Canada – Withdrawal not available. ATMs, why does this happen so often?
• Cashless restaurants are bad for humanity
• Coins from Pompeii’s ruins hint at finances of the dead
• Croatia – currency history
• G&D – touts a greener bank note as replacement
• India – RBI rules on mutilated notes
• India – Violation of RBI Notification Prohibiting Deposit Of Demonetized Notes Does not attract Addition On Account of Unexplained Cash Credits
• Jamaica – Bunting hopes digital currency usage will curb cash heists
• Liberia – CBL Clarifies Shortage of Smaller Liberian Dollar
• Luminescent gels for a multitude of applications from counterfeiting to bio-sensing
• The cashless generation
• The case for cash
• Tracking liquid savings at Pompeii: the coin hoard data
• Tunisia – new banknote
• UK – insights into the use of cash
• UK – is paying with hand-drawn notes artistry or forgery, the case of JSG Boggs
• UK – Penny savings: taking the measure of money at the Ashmolean museum
• US – NYC sidewalk ATMs swindling cash-strapped customers

May 25 – 31, 2022

• Australia – sign at Woolworths about not accepting cash is obsolete
• Australia – secret images hidden on your cash
• Azerbaijan – new note
• Bermuda – banknote/coin history
• Deployers Are Driving Growth in the US, But Overall the ATM Count Is Sliding
• Honduras – new note to honor murdered activist.
• India – RBI reports increase in counterfeit notes
• India – Rs 100 currency notes, Rs 5 coin most preferred
• India – Colour-shifting ink, security fibres: New features to make fresh banknotes counterfeit-proof
• Jamaica – banknote redesign
• Liberia – banknote shortage
• Namibia – contactless ATMs
• Nigeria – financial inclusion
• Nigeria – mobile money & financial inclusion
• Taiwan – commission recommends removal of Chang Kai-shek from currency
• UAE – new notes
• US – The Denomination Effect: Why You Are More Likely to Hang Onto a $100 Bill Than Five $20s
• US/Florida – toward cashless
• Vulnerable populations and the case for cash

May 19 – 25, 2022

• Afghanistan – Circulation Of Old Banknotes On The Rise In Ghor
• Argentina – redesigning banknotes
• Argentina – banknote developments
• Argentina – amid inflation, small denomination banknotes strain wallets
• Canada – Royal Canadian Mint posts $14.4-million earnings in Q1 2022
• China – Less Cash, Less Theft? Evidence from Fintech Development in the People’s Republic of China
• DeLaRue – turnaround to profitability?
• DeLaRue – earnings warning
• Egypt – notes stored in the stove go up in smoke
• FRB St Louis – expanded money museum
• Germany – Police called after 50.000 euros in cash rains from the sky in Mainz
• India – cardless transactions at ATMs
• India – Cardless cash withdrawal soon: Why it will curb frauds like cloning & skimming.
• India – counterfeits
• Indonesia – financial inclusion
• Netherlands – Dutch Police Arrest Three Linked to ATM Bombing Spree
• Nigeria – cashless transactions on the rise
• Pakistan – bank staff instructed to keep minimal cash in ATMs
• Philippines – polymer notes
• Philippines – boy pictured in old P500 note design is now a nurse in NYC
• Rare British/Palestine banknote sold at auction to benefit Oxfam
• South Africa – cash vs cashless
• Spectra Systems – leadership changes
• Three Vintage Chinese Coins Realize Over $1 Million Each
• Top 6 digital payments countries about to go cashless.
• UK – 6 men jailed for ATM theft spree
• UK – financial inclusion & government policy
• UK – Strapped for cash: New rules introduced to give customers access to cash transactions
• UK – Government should be applauded for plans on ensuring nationwide access to cash, but let’s not get too carried away
• UK – Tourists visiting Scotland warned to only accept plastic notes when exchanging money
• UK – Royal Mint Unveils Largest-Ever 15kg Gold Coin For Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
• US Mint coin production through April 2022
• US/Delaware – cashless retail?
• US – Kansas & Missouri increase penalty for ATM theft
• Vulnerable populations & the case for cash
• WEF – on improving financial inclusion with new technologies

May 11 – 18, 2022

• Barbados – polymer notes
• Canada – counterfeits
• CMS – webinar – Global Cash Trends & The Question of Cashless Societies, 5/25/2022
• Ghana – mobile money tax
• Global Cashless Society Markets Report 2022: Micropayment Platforms to Minimize the Dependency on Cash for Small Transactions ($)
• Importance of Cash Handling For The Retail Industry
• India – ATMs & UPI apps
• Ireland – Serial fraudster who put card-trapping devices in ATMs to steal bank cards avoids jail
• Is it extinction or evolution for the cash machine?
• Judge Poised To Bless $66.7M Deal In ATM Fee Antitrust Row ($)
• Malaysia – contactless ATMs
• Nigeria – counterfeits
• Presence and stability of SARS-CoV-2 on environmental currency and money cards in Utah reveals a lack of live virus
• Rare Palestinian Bank Note Found In Charity Shop Sold For 140,000 Pounds In Auction
• Study finds the SARS-CoV-2 virus is not viable on cash banknotes
• The history of private bank notes in 1800s may hint at the future for stablecoins: Not a good one, says Goldman Sachs
• UK = Roman coins found in Pewsey sell for £81k at auction
• UK -You will never be too far from a cashpoint…by law: No one will have to travel an ‘unreasonable’ distance to deposit or withdraw money under new legislation
• US/Washington – 2 men arrested in connection to nearly 60 ATM burglaries make first court appearances
• Why cash will be around for longer than some consumers and brands may want

May 5 – 10, 2022

• Afghans complain of worn out banknotes
• Bangladesh – BB has not made a decision to demonetize any notes
• Belgium – Puppy rips 1,500 euros worth of paper from Belgium owner: ‘I wasn’t mad at him’
• Canada – demand for cash remains strong.
• Canada – fake toonies
• China – residents flock to river bank in search of ancient coins
• Ghana – how to detect fake notes
• India – ATM fraud gang busted
• Israel – Bloodstained banknotes led security forces to Elad killers
• Israel – banknote history
• Jamaica – the cost of new banknotes
• Japan – Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Ordered to Report on System Glitch
• Recent Roman coin find was not “small change”
• South Africa – 100 years of banknotes
• South Africa – Standard Bank says all services have been restored after earlier outage
• Tesla on banknotes
• Treasury Department to Build $1.4B Facility in Maryland to Print U.S. Currency
• UK – cash facts, May 2022
• UK – Iron Age coins found in 1990s declared treasure trove
• UK – Collection of 180 English silver crown coins dating from reign of Edward VI in the 1550s sells for £331,000 after bidding war
• US – Selma Burke & The Dime
• US/Michigan – Brink’s driver snuck out $1M from Michigan ATMs through his lunch box, feds say
• US – a blunder at the Treasury Department in 1864
• Vietnam – ATMs using chip-based cards
• What it is like to sell Bitcoin at a Bitcoin ATM
• Zimbabwe – new banknote

April 30 – May 5, 2022

• 5 things you should always pay for with cash
• ATM software standards aim to transform the industry
• Barbados – new banknotes
• Bitcoin ATM installation slowdown continues for 4th month in 2022
• Brazil – Who is Tiradentes Found On the Cruzeiro Banknote?
• Cambodia’s 15,000-riel note wins award
• CMS Analytics – webinar – Global Cash Trends & The Question of Cashless Societies, 5/25/2022.
• Diebold-Nixdorf – webinar – Cash automation: Top trends & tips for a successful cash recycling strategy, 5/12/2022
• G&D – green banknote
• Ghana – E-Levy: Longer queues, more withdrawals at banks, ATMs
• IBNS Best Rated Banknote Of 2021
• India – ATM card cloning
• India – counterfeit seizure
• Iraq – What Are The Origins Of The Swiss Dinar?
• Jamaica – on the cost of new banknotes
• Kenya – fraudsters focus on cashless payment platforms
• Malaysia – cash vs cashless
• Namibia – toward cashless
• Paper Money Stashed Away Since the 1960s
• Scotland – polymer note
• South Africa – ATM bombings
• Thailand – fake banknotes
• The importance of cash
• UAE – new banknote
• UK – How to exchange old banknotes before they expire as warning issued to shoppers
• UK – Face-to-face banking & cash users are at risk of “being cut adrift”
• UK – Three metal detectorist friends who stumbled upon a hoard of more than 150 Roman coins dating back to 340 AD are set to make £40,000
• UK – ready for cashless?
• US/Pennsylvania – early national banknotes
• When cash ceases to be king

April 26 – 30, 2022

• 82.9% Believe that Fully Cashless Transaction is the Future of Payments: GoodFirms Survey 2022
• Bangladesh – Banks asked to ensure smooth ATM, MFS services during Eid
• Barbados – polymer substrate banknotes
• Bulgaria – 63% of Transactions in Bulgaria are made in Cash
• Cashless Payments – Benefits, Challenges, Trends, & Opportunities
• Changing customer preference for cashless transactions at retail stores, convenience of paper-less billing, & reduced need for manual effort are driving growth of the global retail point of sale system market
• India – ATM tampering & theft costs SBI Rs4.5 crore over 7 months
• India – White Label ATM operators seek establishment of fund to support ATM roll outs in hinterland
• Malaysia – cash shortages in ATMs
• Mexico – Bitcoin ATMs
• New Zealand – cashless not in the future, survey.
• Nigeria – cashless policy
• Pot brimming with Roman coins discovered in Switzerland
• Scotland – elderly vulnerable to counterfeit scams
• Syria – cash shortages in ATMs affect state-employees’ ability to be paid
• Tunisia – new banknotes
• UK faces a fee-free ATM shortage
• UK – Fourth crook in gang behind Britain’s biggest ever fake cash-printing operation is jailed for six years
• US – BEP – Governor Hogan Announces U.S. Bureau Of Engraving & Printing Moves Forward With New Production Facility In Maryland

April 20 – 26, 2022

• ATM Marketplace – webinar – Cash automation: Top trends and tips for a successful cash recycling strategy, 5/12/2022
• Australia – A new $2 coin features the introduced honeybee. Is this really the species we should celebrate?
• Australia – pensioners targeted in cashless scare campaign
• Azerbaijan – new note
• Canada – counterfeit toonies
• Canada – major seizure of counterfeits by RCMP
• Cryptocurrency ATMs: Risks, rewards and getting to know your customers
• Dry cleaners – making the move away from cash
• Evolution of the Spanish piece of eight
• India – 5 arrested for counterfeiting
• India – counterfeit coins
• India, Bangladesh coordinate to dismantle ISI-backed syndicate pumping fake currency notes
• Kazakhstan – toward cashless
• Malaysia – counterfeits
• Nigeria – ATMs vs POS terminals
• Offences Involving ATMs: Insights into How Offenders See ATMs as Targets
• Philippines – banknote burner arrested
• Philippines – Twitter reacts to new 1000 peso bill
• Philippines – old style P1000 note will not be demonitized
• Revolutionizing the ATM
• Seychelles – toward cashless
• UAE – new notes
• UK – It is now or never to halt the cash crisis, says Which?
• UK – ATM shortage
• US – Coin Shortage: What To Do With Your Old Coins
• US – counterfeit collectable notes
• Will crypto replace cash?
• Zambia – banknote history

April 14 – 19, 2022

• Bahrain – cashless payments up 45%
• Bitcoin ATM Operator Indicted in New York Allegedly Running Illegal Business Attracting Criminals
• How vending machines detect fake coins
• India – ATM robbery arrests
• Indonesia – toward cashless
• Jamaica – banks responsible for ATM malfunctions
• KOMSCO to expand cooperation with Uzbekistan in minting technology
• Kuwait – new notes
• Philippines – polymer note
• Rwanda – why it doesn’t print its own currency
• Shredded money as a decoration
• South Africa – SARB celebrates 100 years after issuing of first banknote
• South Africa – why the currency is called the rand
• Turkey – Financial Literacy & Cash Holdings in Turkey
• UK – Banknote warning as money experts explain how to spot a fake as millions to expire
• UK – Cashing Out: Assessing the risk of localised financial exclusion as the UK moves towards a cashless society
• US Mint – coin production in IQ 2022
• US – 1922 in coin history
• US – 3 cent silver coins from the 19^th century
• US – dry cleaners & cash vs digital payments
• US – theft at the Carson City Mint, 1895
• US/Connecticut – ATM thefts
• US/Massachusetts – Retailers can’t discriminate against cash payments, state law says
• Vietnam – toward cashless
• Zimbabwe – banknote history

April 8 – 13, 2022

• Australia – what happened to the cashless society
• Bangladesh – toward cashless
• Cambodia – banknote wins international currency award
• Coin acceptors are higher-tech than you think
• Collecting coins from shipwrecks
• Defending ATMs from jackpotting
• Finland – new regulation on cash services
• India – seizure of demonetized notes
• India – how contact image sensor has enhanced the accuracy of fake banknote detection
• India – Cash is still king in India but how much are you actually allowed to pay in cash?
• India – counterfeits
• Malaysia – toward cashless
• Nepal – banknote shortage
• Outsourcing your ATM program: How to find the right solution, webinar, 4/20/2022
• Philippines – toward cashless
• Spain – counterfeits
• Sudan – banknote history
• Survey Shows Swing Towards Universal Cash Deposits for ATMs
• The displacement of cash by alternative payments is not a new thing
• Ukrainians struggle to convert national currency in the EU
• UK – What happens when you try to deposit counterfeit money at an ATM – and the message you’ll get in return
• UK – is Britain ready to go cashless?
• US – Big Things Happened at the United States Mint in the Month of April
• US – Covid & the coin shortage
• US – Building an Economy on Paper Money – A shortage of coined currency led Pennsylvania to begin using paper money in the 1720s. The British didn’t like it, but the colonists did.
• US – America’s First Economic Stimulus Package: Paper Money and the Body Politic in Colonial Pennsylvania, 1715–1730
• US – the most rare $20 gold pieces
• US – Former Special Agent Reviews Counterfeit Money in TV & Film
• US/NY – NFT vending machine
• Vietnam – toward cashless
• Who is in your wallet (on banknotes)

April 4 – 8, 2022

• Almost 90% of the world’s Bitcoin ATMs are in the US
• Analysis of Roman coins uncovers evidence of financial crisis
• ATM Transactions: Post Covid Lockdowns
• Australia – cost of production of some coins outstrips face value
• Biafra – banknote history
• Cash vs cashless
• Crane Currency & Essentra Packaging
• Famous Females on Banknotes
• Fast & reliable authentication of banknotes
• G+D launches Green Banknote Initiative to make production & lifecycle of banknotes more sustainable
• Hong Kong – Bitcoin ATMs
• Hyosung Picks Advanced Fraud Solutions to Strengthen ATM Deposit Fraud Protections
• India – 2 arrested for counterfeitng
• India – cashless withdrawals from ATMs using UPI
• India – Micro ATMs usage tripled during pandemic
• Japan is in a cashless payment boom, so why is more cash ending up in lost-and-founds?
• Malaysia – toward cashless
• Nigeria – mixed reactions to CBNs guidance on depositing dirty notes
• Nigeria – currency in circulation has declined for 2 months
• Philippines – new note
• Portugal – banknote production
• Sculpture made from 1m Euro 1-cent coins goes on display
• Study Seeks Source of Silver For Roman Coins
• The Rise of Cashless Economies & Governments’ Neglect
• UK – Medical pioneer Dr Flora Murray features on new bank note
• US – Foreign Coins Struck by the Mint: Cuba in the 20th Century
• Why did this $20 bill sell for $396,000? Because a Del Monte sticker got stuck on the paper before it was printed
• Yemen – banknote history
• Zaire – banknote history
• Zimbabwe – new banknote

March 31 – April 4, 2022

• Albania – new notes
• Cash logistics market, study ($)
• Cashless ATMS at cannabis dispensaries are the industry’s latest disguise against banks
• Chile – polymer note
• Crypto ATM installations around the world
• French farmer finds rare coin featuring Charlemagne just before his death
• Ghana – e-levy vs the cashless economy
• India – banks get until 2023 to comply with ATM cash replenishment regulations
• India – mobile banknote identifier for the visually impaired
• India – Why cash circulation in economy hit all-time high in March 2022 despite surge in digital payments
• Scotland – polymer note
• Nigeria – CBN warns banks against depositing ‘composed’ banknotes
• Thailand – polymer note
• Ukrainian tycoon and politician’s glamorous wife ‘carried $29m in cash through a refugee border crossing into the EU’
• UK – football player sucked on coins to avoid a drunk driving charge, urban myth
• UK – in 1836, a sewage worker broke into the BoE gold vault
• UK – the death of the bank branch & cashless vulnerabilities
• US – how fake bills have mostly been eliminated
• US Mint encourages public to get coins moving
• US Mint – strong gold bullion demand
• US/Oregon – movie money stolen & in circulation
• Venezuela – banknote history
• Where do discarded banknotes go?
• Why is there a coin shortage? Quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies are in short supply again
• Yugoslavia – banknote history

March 31, 2022

• Africa – More than Two-thirds of Africa’s 54 Countries Print their Money Overseas
• Africa – why countries have their banknotes printed in Europe
• India – RBI Governor opens banknote ink unit in Mysore
• Myanmar – plane carrying banknote paper expected to arrive soon

March 29 – 30, 2022

• ATM use recovers from lockdown impact
• Banknote processing machines market to witness stunning growth to generate massive revenue forecast to 2028 – Glory, Giesecke & Devrient, LAUREL ($)
• Consumers prepare for the cashless society
• Currency initiative: Central Bank of the Philippines’ Cash Service Alliance
• Currency manager – Bank of Costa Rica
• Malaysia – Automated Cash Centre processes up to three billion banknotes a year
• Philippines – toward cashless
• UK – The Cash Census – Britain’s relationship with cash & digital payments
• UK – How 11m people are being betrayed by the dash from cash: Fears for the vulnerable and elderly with banks set to close more branches this year
• UK – Britain being forced to go cashless against its will

March 24 – 29, 2022

• Are central banks ahead of banknote counterfeiters?
• Bangladesh – toward cashless
• Cambodia – banknote history
• Crane – a license to print
• E-commerce & cashless payments
• Fjii – new note
• Hong Kong – 8 arrested for counterfeiting
• India – Cash may have been king, but it’s clear that data is now wearing the crown
• India – how to exchange torn notes
• India – micro-ATMs & rural women
• India – on self sufficiency in banknote production
• Jamaica – on the need for new banknotes
• Japan’s regional lenders face glitches at ATMs
• Kenya – toward cashless
• Malawi – counterfeits
• Philippines – black money scam
• Philippines – toward cashless
• Rhodesia – banknote history
• Singapore – counterfeiting arrests
• Syria – banknote history
• The Cashless Revolution – China’s Reinvention of Money & the End of America’s Domination in Finance & Technology, Martin Chorzempa, Public Affairs, 2022.
• Thailand – polymer note
• UK -Shoppers in ‘race against time’ to use up £19billion worth of paper £20 & £50 notes by October 1 before shops start rejecting them
• UK – BoE – how to exchange your old banknotes
• US Mint coin production in February 2022
• US/Connecticut – Romanian national admits role in ATM skimming scheme
• We Need Digital Cash That is Actually Like Cash

March 20 – 24, 2022

• ATM jackpotting attacks getting clever
• Australia – counterfeit $50s
• Barbados – polymer notes
• Gambia – counterfeiting
• How refugees’ need for cash exposes the limits of Euro sovereignty
• India – counterfeiting
• India – how to return a soiled or torn banknote
• India – water ATMs
• Ireland – people warned to cash in their pound notes as thousands soon won’t be valid anymore
• Malaysia – Counterfeit fifty Ringgit Malaysian banknotes authentication using novel graph-based chemometrics method
• Moving ATMs Into the Future With Cash Recycling
• Nepal – old banknotes become heating material
• Philippines – BSP policy on exchanging mutilated coins
• Providing cash & paper check access is still important for banks
• Quontic Bank on the Role of ATMs in Digital-First Banking
• Scotland – polymer banknotes
• UK – huge change in banknotes
• UK – Teenager caught with stash of knock-off bank notes claimed fake cash was ‘just for fun’
• UK – The future of local banking services and access to cash
• UK – Old round £1 coins: £105m still uncashed
• US – Retail associations call on Treasury to help with coin circulation
• US/Connecticut – 2 Dominican nationals charged with drug trafficking & counterfeiting
• US/Michigan – toward cashless
• US/Pennsylvania – toward cashless
• Why African notes are printed in Europe

March 14 – 21, 2022

• ATMIA Next ATM User Interface & Metrics Best Practice Guide
• Backing cash payments can help retailers reduce card payment fees, says Volumatic
• Bahamas – best new banknote award
• Cambodia – banknote history
• Canada – counterfeits in Ontario
• Canada – Why paying with cash instead of credit can still make sense
• Cash is a challenge for challenger banks
• CBDC & the fragility of the cashless economy
• ECCB wins award for polymer notes
• Europe – counterfeits
• Hackers Target Bank Networks with new Rootkit to Steal Money from ATMs
• How money has changed through history
• IACA currency excellence awards
• India – fake Rs500 note stats
• India – counterfeit seizure
• Is physical money destined to disappear
• Myanmar – central bank dispels rumors of counterfeits
• Nickel & nickels
• Nigeria – Interswitch, biometrics, ATMs & POS
• Offering Bitcoin Account Access, Nixing Fees, Helps FIs Take ATM Tech Into the Future
• Philippines – counterfeits
• Philippines – BSP crackdown on counterfeiters
• Spain – Ancient Roman Coins Seized in Massive International Trafficking Bust
• Spectra Systems upbeat as central bank work increases
• The perils of going cashless & paperless
• UK – £19bn in old UK banknotes & coins not cashed in
• UK – Fake £20 Notes
• UK – Royal Mint to turn electronic waste into gold
• US – Biden Announces Treasury Will Print Other Countries’ Currencies
• US/Florida – Man used bleach, $1 bills & a little creativity to make $235K in fake cash, feds say
• US/New Hampshire – counterfeits in 1808
• US/Virginia – 5 year sentence for counterfeiting
• West Africa – history of the CFA franc.

March 9 – 13, 2022

• Australia – toward cashless
• Bitcoin ATMs becoming more mainstream, increasing by 4,200% worldwide
• Cashless society, exclusion of the underprivileged
• Debunked: Bronze Age Britons Did Not Use Gold Pieces as Currency
• Germany – inside Germany’s secret Cold War cash bunker
• How restaurants can manage cash in a digital world
• India – toward cashless
• India – Why Has RBI Scrapped Polymer Currency Notes Idea?
• Ireland – how Gardai caught the ATM robbery gang
• Jamaica – Circulation life of new banknotes will increase by at least 50%
• Jamaica – the portraits on new banknotes
• Lebanon – Cash or card? Confusion rages over Lebanon’s new payment system
• Liberia – toward cashless
• Nigerian Banks Stop Usage Of ATM, PoS Transactions Abroad Over Dollar Scarcity
• Pakistan – SBP money museum
• Philippines – polymerization of the P1000 note continues to be a concern
• Philippines – Accessibility features of bills seen to improve ease of use
• Portugal – on the installation of additional ATMs
• South Africa – fake US dollars
• Spain – fake E100 notes appear in Alicante area
• Spain – counterfeiting gang busted
• The Fascinating Stories Behind 5 of the World’s Big Currency Symbols
• UK – cash anytime of day, as easy as ABC
• UK – Cash’s reign fades as Covid accelerates high street switch to card-only
• UK’s financial regulator orders shutdown of all Bitcoin ATMs
• UK – Rare royal penny worth £200k generates buying frenzy
• US – impact of the cashless economy on airport skycaps, hotel maids & others dependent on tips
• US – will the US Mint change the composition of coins?

March 6 – 9, 2022

• ATMIA – webinar – next-gen ATMs & crypto, 3/29/2022.
• Australia – The money forger that was honored by becoming the face on a banknote, the convict who became a respected architect.
• Belarus banned from receiving euro notes
• Cash Is Critical in Times of Crisis
• Critical Bugs Expose Hundreds of Thousands of Medical Devices and ATMs
• India – counterfeiter arrest
• India – fake currency stats, 2020 & 2021
• India – Women prefer cash for retail payments; digital adoption high among younger gen
• Ireland – ATM robberies
• Jamaica – new note
• Pakistan – gang of Brazilian ATM skimmers busted
• Malaysia – toward cashless
• Malta – counterfeits
• Nigeria – no cash in 40% of ATMs
• Nigeria – currency in circulation
• Northern Ireland – New £50 banknote will celebrate women scientists
• Note design contest for excellence results in two-way tie
• Philippines – counterfeits
• Thailand – toward cashless
• The rise & fall of Docutel, the Dallas company that created early ATMs
• Ukrainian refugees boost demand for euro notes in Romania
• UK – Rare penny valued at £200k sold to the public – ‘500x more precious than gold!’
• UK – the drawbacks of a cashless society
• US – coin shortage & the Fed
• US – nickel coin is worth more than a dime due to metals surge
• US/Florida – Legislature shortchanges ban on no-cash businesses
• US/Georgia – new bill would require businesses to take cash & give change
• US/Tennessee – Nashville businesses seeing less crime after going cashless
• US/Texas – proliferation of cashless businesses in Austin
• US/Virginia – 30 months for Romanian national for ATM skimming
• Venezuela – battered bolivar
• Which countries feature women on banknotes, infographic.

March 3 – 6, 2022

• Authentication Times, February 2022
• Bangladesh – history of the Taka
• Can ATMs go cashless?
• Falling Use of Cash & Demand for Retail Central Bank Digital Currency
• Ghana – Cashless economy will rope in everyone to pay E-Levy
• History of money, from cowrie to Bitcoins
• India – counterfeits
• India – Digital wallets to overtake cash as India’s leading point-of sale payment method by 2023
• India – Does going cashless make you tax-rich? Evidence from India’s demonetization experiment.
• Irish brothers who stole ‘eye-watering’ amount of cash from ATMs as part of cross-border gang jailed
• Making money – antebellum & stablecoins compared
• Nigeria – how bank officials stole N874m by linking accounts to ATM cards
• The World’s First Coins were Minted in Ancient Lydia
• UK – cashless payments survey
• UK – Half of people ‘still using less cash than they were before pandemic’
• UK – How a royal disagreement over a penny revealed Edward VIII’s vanity
• UK – Rare 14th-century gold ‘leopard’ coin could sell for 140,000 British pounds
• UK – South Yorkshire Police issues warning over fake £20 notes
• UK – Weekly ATM value & volume figures 27 February 2022
• US – How Paper Money Saved the Union – Desperate for funds during the Civil War, the US government made ‘greenbacks’ legal tender & changed the future of finance.

February 28 – March 3, 2022

• Australia – ATM count is down significantly
• Bitcoin ATM installations slow down in early 2022, making a first in history
• Brunei – toward cashless
• Cash Recycling Module Market is Booming Worldwide with Hyosung, CMSI, Hitachi ($)
• Chinese mentally disabled man famous for buying noodles with hand-drawn banknotes in popular online videos dies
• Consumers prefer to pay digitally instead of using cash, select vendors who offer cashless payments
• Currency Sorting Machine Market has huge growth in industry ($)
• DeLaRue Says New Valuation Reduces Pension-Scheme Deficit
• Egypt – e-wallets vs cash
• EU bans euro-denominated banknotes in Russia
• Europe – all you need to know about euro banknotes
• Ghana – Man grabbed for possessing 656 ATM cards granted bail
• Guyana – Rare British Guiana note leads March currency auction
• How to protect ATMs from attack
• Hungary – Rare gold coin found in Hungary shows assassinated Roman emperor
• India – RBI banknote printing facility tender for a solar project
• India – cashless commuting
• India – counterfeiter arrests
• Malaysia – toward cashless
• Meta Materials To Preview New Kolouroptik Stripe At The Banknote & Currency Conference 2022
• Mexico – the art of banknotes
• Netherlands – Dutch banks reduce ATM count by 1/3
• Philippines – currency history
• Russia – ATM queues
• Russians hoard cash in the wake of Ukraine crisis
• Singapore – facial biometrics at ATMs
• Spain – RAMSES Implements GLORYs CASHINFINITY Solutions
• Unstable Coins: The Early History of Central Bank Analog Currencies.
• Vietnam – banknote history
• What is a Bitcoin ATM

February 24 – 28, 2022

• ATM pooling leads to branch transformation
• Cambodia – Funny Money: $1 million banknote ‘not genuine’ say police
• India – the value of counterfeits seized in 2021
• India – Bombay High Court Directs RBI To Replace Maharashtra Resident’s Demonetized Notes Worth ₹1.6L With New & Valid Currency
• India – 5 arrested for hacking into ATMs, withdrawing Rs 8.3 lakh
• Malaysia – After complaints, ministry delays expansion of cashless aid scheme for people with disabilities
• Malta – cpunterfeits
• Nigeria – NCC’s CSIRT Discovers Banking App-Targeting Malware
• Philippines – Banknote sharing saves banks P119M
• Spain – Artist Paints Famous Scenes On Banknotes So Her Work Can Travel The World
• Syria – Idlib weighs cashless economy to address hardship
• Thermochromatic Ink Market In 2022 : The Increasing use in Banknotes, Official Identity Documents, Tax Banderoles, Security Labels is driving the growth of the Industry across the globe ($)
• UK – Hampshire gang jailed for ‘audacious’ ATM explosion raids
• UK – Counterfeit £20 note fear after two found with identical numbers in Leicestershire
• US – It’s time to put Frederick Douglass’ face on US dollar, Henry Louis Gates Jr. says
• US/Louisiana – Cheaper with cash? Some local restaurants are charging customers more to pay with cards
• US/Pennsylvania – counterfeits in Westmoreland County
• Why 170-year old bank note printer Giesecke+Devrient has no fear of digital currencies
• World’s most beautiful banknotes

February 21 – 24, 2022

• Bangladesh – toward cashless
• Brink’s Is Reviewing Russia-Related Transactions to Comply With U.S. Sanctions, CFO Says
• Cashless Economies are Making Inequality & Poverty Perpetuate
• China’s Non-Virtual Banks Cannot Go Cashless
• China – Notes, coins hanging on with some demographics
• Currency demand at negative policy rates.
• Electronic payments now includes cash
• How digital payments are enabling a shift away from the cash economy.
• How we choose to pay has hidden costs for the planet
• India – Does going cashless make you tax-rich? Evidence from India’s demonetization experiment.
• India – HQ of bank note manufacturer declared prohibited place
• India – how to replace your damaged currency notes
• Liberia – counterfeits
• Malawi – new banknote
• Malaysia – mysterious disappearance of Rm50 & Rm100 notes
• Russia – in Moscow, Lines for ATMs Amid Fears of Withdrawal Limits
• Spectra Systems: Pioneer in Machine-Readable Covert Polymer Substrate
• Sri Lanka – counterfeits
• Ukrainians flood ATMs to withdraw cash as Russian invasion escalates
• UK – Fife fake £2 coin schemer caught out by ‘poor details’ in Queen’s hair
• UK – February 22, 2006 – Gang commits largest robbery in British history.
• UK – Securitas depot robbery
• US Mint coin production, January 2022
• US – 100-Note Pack of Series 1934A $500 Notes: Oldest-Surviving Intact Pack of US Banknotes
• US/California – how cashless is creating inequities in San Diego
• Venezuela – cryptocurrency ATMs
• What do banks need to work with Bitcoin ATMs?

February 17 – 21, 2022

• Austria – Man Who Allegedly Made Living by Stealing From Coin-Counting Machines Arrested
• Cash logistics market to reach $33.28 billion, globally, by 2030 at 6.9% CAGR: Allied Market Research ($)
• Croatia – counterfeits
• Gas station ATMs are a banking battleground
• Independent ATMs Struggle for Access to Banks
• India – history of the currency
• India – How to check authenticity of Rs 500 notes? Follow RBI’s 17-point checklist or face losses
• India – Even after a week, cops clueless in ATM loot case
• India – where have all the Rs2000 notes gone?
• Lesotho – new notes
• Nepal – counterfeits
• Nigeria – counterfeits
• Nigerian police seize 4.7-mln-USD counterfeit money
• Nigeria – currency in circulation reaches an all-time high
• Portugal – €187 million in unexchanged escudos
• South Korea – central bank limiting exchanges of used banknotes for new
• The state of cashless around the world
• Ukraine – banknote history
• UK – Banking Hub company will help maintain access to cash
• UK – Converted iPod used in skimming device on cash machine
• UK – currency exhibit in Leeds
• UK – little-known law could see your cash payments refused
• UK – toward cashless?
• US – early Massachusetts silver coins come up for auction
• US – portrait differences on recent $2 notes
• Uzbekistan – banknote history
• Vietnam – toward cashless
• What are the biggest ATM security issues
• Zimbabwe – economists caution government regarding cash limits

February 13 – 17, 2022

• Australia – money expert’s warning over ‘shrinking’ $5 notes revealed in TikTok video
• Cambodia – financial incl;usion
• EUIPO – Anti-Counterfeiting Technology Guide
• Europe – ECB Chief Lagarde says digital euro will not replace cash — but could offer convenient, cost-free means of payment
• Examining the current state of payments, labor for ATMs in 2022
• Foreign Coins Struck by the US Mint in the 19th Century
• Georgia – 2 arrested for counterfeiting
• India – counterfeits
• India – micro-ATMs & the digital economy
• India – will a digital rupee be more cost-effective than a paper rupee?
• Liberia: CBL, partners to implement currency changeover
• Louisenthal – security is the thread that binds us.
• Nepal – 4 arrested for counterfeiting
• Northern Ireland – counterfeit warning
• Philippines – Deposit accounts, e-money boost BSP’s financial inclusion bid
• Smarter, stronger currencies are stumping counterfeiters around the world
• Thailand – Competing to produce the Second Series, 1923, Siamese Banknotes
• UK – Can you still use old £20 notes? When the paper notes expire and what to do when they go out of circulation
• Ukraine – banknote history
• Uruguay – crypto ATMs
• US has the most crypto ATMs in the world
• US/Massachusetts – Romanian national sentenced to 2-years for ATM skimming
• US/Nebraska – 3-year sentence for counterfeiting
• Zimbabwe, the country with no coins, US$1 is more useful than US$100

February 8 – 13, 2022

• ATM managed services sourcing & procurement market will have an incremental spend of USD 0.79 billion: SpendEdge
• ATMs, the past & the future
• Azerbaijan puts into circulation renewed banknote symbolizing Karabakh
• Bahrain – toward cashless
• Baldwin heads to Banknote & Currency Conference
• Bangladesh – counterfeit India rupees smuggled in from Pakistan
• Egypt to enhance cooperation with UK in minting coins
• France – banknote factory fire
• Germany – Bundesbank dries out 1.5m notes damaged in Rhineland floods
• Gold & silver in cashless societies, the great reset in perspective
• Guyana – new banknote
• India – counterfeit seizure, counterfeiter arrests
• India – 9 arrested for counterfeiting
• Myths about making money
• Namibia – cash recycling ATMs
• Nigeria – Frustration mounts as bank customers allege excessive charges, battle fraudsters in cashless transactions
• Saudi Arabia – number of ATMs dropped by 1755 in 2021
• Saudi Arabia – toward cashless
• Spain – retail cashiers & suspect banknotes
• The history of wartime counterfeiting
• Turkey – rare 1927 banknote up for sale
• UAE – banknote history
• UK – how to spot fake banknotes
• UK – Man jailed after £1m of counterfeit notes found stashed in suitcases
• UK – Weekly ATM value and volume figures 6 February 2022.
• Uruguay – banknote history
• US Treasury confirms that Harriet Tubman US$20 is coming
• Why the Charlotte & Dahlonega Mints Were Built
• Yemen – Divergent currency values make life even harder

February 3 – 8, 2022

• Afghanistan – cash shortages
• Bahrain – 2 arrested for counterfeiting
• China’s fully cashless society a step closer after two private banks end services for banknotes and coins
• Coin counterfeiting
• Croatia – on the design of euro coins
• Croatia – design of euro coins is a scandal
• El Salvador – Bitcoin ATMs
• Europe – where are the E500 notes?
• India – digital approach to financial inclusion
• Liberia – second batch of L$100 notes has arrived at the central bank
• Namibia – new N$10 note
• Nigeria – 8 in ATM robbery gang arrested
• Northern Ireland – some notes losing legal tender status
• Pakistan – SBP guidance on exchanging old banknotes
• Pakistan – SBP & financial inclusion
• Scotland – toward cashless
• Turkey – banknote history
• Uganda – banknote history
• UK – Rare coin goes on sale for £200,000 – how you can own a stake in it
• UK – Bronington medieval coins declared as treasure by Welsh coroner
• UK – cashless society should not leave people behind
• UK – Independent ATM deployers expect to benefit as banks pull back on off-premise ATMs
• US – the 1804 quarter eagle
• US Mint looking for new vendor for ordering & fulfillment
• US/Arizona – Tempe Home Depot employee arrested, accused of passing nearly $400K in counterfeit currency
• Vietnam – collector owns every note issued by the country
• Zimbabwe’s inflation: The role of the digitalization of financial transactions

January 31 – February 3, 2022

• A new type of printing process switches materials from black to transparent – could be useful for printing banknotes & ID documents.
• Australia – Physical use of cash declines, but many Tasmanians ‘stick to cash’, argue against cashless society
• Costa Rica – cotton-substrate banknotes going out of circulation, but not demonitized
• DeLaRue contract with Oman
• Egypt – toward cashless
• El Salvador – Bitcoin ATMs
• Estonia – on the issuance of euro notes
• Europe – Leonardo da Vinci could be feature of future euro notes
• Ghana – Nigerian arrested with over 600 ATM Cards faces fresh probe
• India – Bank of Baroda & NCR ATM services
• India – counterfeit stats for 2021
• India – Fake currency smuggler from Uttar Pradesh nabbed in Kolkata
• Liberia burns old, mutilated Liberian dollar banknotes
• Liberia – the competitive process for sourcing banknotes & coins has yielded savings
• Littlejohn & Co. sells Tidel to Sesami, a GardaWorld entity
• Malaysia – issues with government cashless support payment project
• Namibia – new signature on banknotes
• Oman – on recycling worn banknotes
• Pakistan – toward cashless
• Philippines – 4 arrested for counterfeiting
• Philippines – arrests for counterfeit US dollars
• Portugal – counterfeit euro notes seized in 2021
• Qatar banknote wins international award
• Thailand – toward cashless
• Turkmenistan – banknote history
• Uganda – central bank assures the public that notes bearing the signature of a now-deceased official are still legal tender
• Ukraine – cash in circulation
• UK – The largest gold coin ever made weighing massive 10kg is produced in London & contains £700,000 worth of gold
• US – CCAC to review 2023 coin, medal designs
• Why are banknotes destroyed?

January 26 – 31, 2022

• Bangladesh – counterfeits
• Euro banknote counterfeiting at historically low level in 2021
• Examining the state of cash
• Harvey G. Stack, Leading Dealer in Rare Coins, Dies at 93
• India – counterfeits in Mumbai
• India – SPMCIL sets up new banknote printing lines at Nashik & Dewas
• Liberia – CBL destroys more than half-a-billion mutilated LRD banknotes
• Malaysia – Torn banknotes are the most common currency brought in for exchange
• Mexico – 2000 peso note
• Philippines – BSP fighting counterfeits
• Philippines – rollout of polymer substrate bills
• Thailand – polymer note
• Trinidad/Tobago – banknote history
• Tunisia – banknote history
• UK – Banks hand Post Office lifeline with new three-year cash access deal
• UK – Cash still has its place in a contactless world
• UK – Leeds link to Nazi bogus banknotes plot explored in new exhibition
• US – cash is no longer king in the US, but will it ever go away?
• US – how does the US Mint decide how many coins to produce?
• US – Indian doctor receives a US patent for Digitalised High-Value Paper Currency (DHVPC)
• US – Las Vegas man sells one of the world’s rarest coins for $12m
• US/Maine – Attempt to bail friend out of jail with fake money leads to major drug bust
• US/Texas & Louisiana – Police: ATM heists may be part of large crime organization
• Zimbabwe dollar, second death is only a matter of time

January 22 – 26, 2022

• ATMs pop up as bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies gain popularity
• Banknotes Design & CurrencGamma Printing Market Research Report Analysis by Competition ($)
• Canada – more charges laid in counterfeit currency investigation in Windsor
• Canada narrows its $5 note candidates to eight finalists
• China – story of going ‘cashless’ foretell the West’s digital future?
• DeLaRue warns on profits after Covid costs
• Federal Reserve banknote order for 2022
• Ghana – cost of producing coins
• India – counterfeits seized in Mumbai
• Ireland – is the ATM slowly dying?
• Liberia – new notes
• Nambia – counterfeits
• New Zealand – counterfeits
• Philippines – BSP warns consumers to check for counterfeit notes at ATMs
• Scottish consumers have highest cash and mobile payments usage in Britain
• Smart Safes or Armored Car Service: What Does Your Business Need?
• South Africa – counterfeits
• Spain – counterfeit bust in Andalucia
• Spectra Systems scores three new contract awards
• Sri Lanka – 2 arrested with counterfeit US$1 million note
• Switzerland – art with Swiss banknotes
• Thailand – improved banknotes on the way
• They love coins, just not Bitcoin
• UK – banks urge Londoners to turn in their old L20s & L50s before they expire
• UK – cash usage returns to pre-pandemic levels
• UK – Gold coin found in Devon field fetches £540k
• UK – Henry III Gold Coin Could Sell for Half a Million at Auction
• US – the story behind the new Maya Angelou quarter
• US – Parents, the national coin shortage is a chance to teach our kids about history, economics

January 19 – 22, 2022

• Canada – counterfeits in Windsor
• Crane Co.: Not Bad, But Not Great Either
• Dubai – counterfeits
• Europe – how to identify counterfeit euro coins
• Europe – secret lab sniffs out fake notes
• Kurz – webinar – New Dynamics for Safer Banknotes, 2/16/2022.
• Nigeria – cash shortages worry depositors
• Panama – Man Arrested For Stealing $1M in Cash That Was Going to Be Destroyed
• Physically unclonable functions taggant for universal steganographic prints
• Singapore – crypto ATMs deactivated amid crackdown
• Taiwan – cryptocurrency ATMs have to comply with money laundering rules
• Thailand – banknote history
• Thailand – new note
• The history of the gold standard
• UK – Do you still use cash? MPs probe into the impact of increasingly cashless society
• UK – cash machines face extinction as shoppers switch to plastic
• UK – LINK Consumer Council Annual Report 2021
• US Mint coin production through December 2021
• US Mint – Black employees feel marginalized & threatened
• US/Florida – Bradenton man printed over $10,000 in counterfeit money. Now he’s facing prison.
• US/Tennessee – counterfeits

January 16 – 19, 2022

• Albania – new banknotes
• Bulgaria – notes & coins in circulation, December 2021
• Counterfeit money detection market to witness growth acceleration – Cassida Corp, Royal Sovereign, Crane Payment Innovations ($)
• Ecuador – The Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE) announced that it will require anti-theft dyes to deter raids on stocks of cash.
• GLORY partners with FTPS to resell FTPS Red Carpet Software to provide cash automation for retailers & convenience stores
• How FIs are tapping ATMs to bridge the gap between digital & physical banking
• Ireland – The rare €5 banknotes that are worth a fortune due to small unique features
• Nepal – counterfeiter arrests
• Oman – toward cashless
• One in four consumers expect to switch to being cashless within two years
• Scotland – Experts say shops should be forced to accept cash as fears grow over dwindling access
• Serbia – toward cashless
• Solar-powered ATM market, report ($)
• South Korea – counterfeits at record low in 2021
• Taiwan – 700 ATMs dispensing new banknotes
• Timor – banknote history
• Tonga – banknote history
• Turkey – The Determinants of Consumer Cash Usage in Turkey
• UAE – Central bank guidance to financial institutions banking cash-intensive businesses
• US – penny cost 2.1c to make in 2021
• US/Illinois – thieves targeting ATMs in the Chicago area
• Worldwide cash logistics market to reach USD 15.84 billion between 2020 & 2025 ($)

January 13 – 16, 2022

• 5 reasons to make cash recycling a priority for your business in 2022
• Afghanistan – ATM services resumed in several Afghanistan provinces, first time after Taliban’s takeover
• Competition opens for the world’s top banknotes
• Exploring the growing list of countries which indicates that cash may become obsolete
• Germany – Archaeology breakthrough as ‘once in a lifetime’ hoard of 2,000-year-old gold coins found
• India – arrest in fake note smuggling from Bangladesh
• India & Bangladesh launch probe to establish ISI role in Pak-backed fake currency racket
• India – How to use SBI OTP-based cash withdrawal from ATMs?
• India – IPO-bound India1 Payments aims to deploy 20,000 ATMs in the next 5 years
• Israel – inside the central bank’s emergency cash supply exercise ($)
• Persia – ancient coins
• South Africa – police arrest 3 Zimbabwe nationals carrying explosives thought to be destined for ATM blasts
• Spain – crypto ATMs
• The evolution of ATMs in the digital age
• The Jetsons had it (mostly) right, with the glaring exception of payments
• UK – One of England’s ‘first ever gold coins’ is dug up in Devon field: Rare 1257 token bearing portrait of King Henry III is one of only 8 in existence & could earn its finder £400,000
• UK – Rare pierced Iron Age gold coin found in Acle declared treasure
• US – A 1907, $10 gold coin could sell for more than $500,000
• US/Massachusetts – January 17 1950, Boston thieves pull off historic Brink’s robbery
• Vietnam – Cashless payments account for over 70 percent of retail transactions in 2021

January 10 – 13, 2022

• ATM Market revenue to cross US$25 Bn by 2027: Global market insights ($)
• Australia – toward cashless
• Canada – counterfeit C$100s in Ontario
• Canada – fake toonies circulating in Ontario
• Cash usage declines by country
• Cash still looms large for merchants. Brink’s is signing processors to tackle the issue
• Costa Rica – new notes
• Even in the digital economy cash is king
• France – cashless & the homeless
• GAO report suggests tightening regulations on crypto ATMs
• India – counterfeiting gang busted
• Malaysia – toward cashless
• Mauritania – new note
• Metamaterials unveils an expanding array of optical applications, including for banknotes
• Philippines – BSP says unauthorized reproduction of Philippine banknotes ‘prohibited’
• Singapore – long queues at banks & ATMs to get new notes for New Year
• Tajikistan – banknote history
• UAE – toward cashless
• UK – about free ATM networks
• UK – Cash 101 ($)
• UK – counterfeits
• UK – Gobowen Roman coin hoard declared as treasure
• UK – Scottish banknote refused at Oxford hotel
• US coins will feature 5 women
• US Mint starts distributing Maya Angelou quarters
• Why cash is a critical resource with no substitute in cashless societies

January 6 – 10, 2022

• ATMs headed the way of the payphone
• ATM market past research, deep analysis and present data with Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd, Diebold Nixdorf ($)
• Egypt thwarts smuggle attempt of 9 coins dating back to Roman, Ptolemaic eras
• Global Cash Logistics Market – analysis by service type, end user, by region, by country: market insights & forecast with impact of covid-19 ($)
• India – counterfeiter arrests
• Kenya – growth in mobile money
• New Zealand – counterfeits
• New Zealand – cashless future could create problems for the criminal underworld
• Nigeria – toward cashless
• Nigerians Worry over scarce lower denomination Naira notes – Experts blame scarcity on high cost of printing new notes
• Pakistan – SBP extends deadline for retirement of old notes to 12/31/2022
• Solomon Islands – counterfeits
• South Korea – fake US$50s
• Spain – Hungry badger may have uncovered Roman coins in Spanish cave
• Sri Lanka – 10,000 rupee note is a hoax
• Tanzania – banknote history
• UK – the access to cash crisis
• Uruguay – crypto ATM
• US government sues Georgia auto-repair shop that dumped more than 91,000 pennies in a former employee’s driveway
• US/California – Taco Bell employee shot & killed after rejecting counterfeit notes tendered for a meal
• US/New York – swastika laced currency dispensed by an ATM on NYC’s Upper East Side
• US/Utah – counterfeiter arrests
• Why we use more cash than ever before

January 3 – 6, 2022

• Bangladesh – counterfeits
• Banknotes design & currency printing market to witness robust expansion throughout the forecast period 2021-2027 ($)
• Cash demand in times of crises
• Cash is important for a fair economy
• Croatia – Croats Told to Move Cash From Beds to Banks as Euro Nears
• Even in the digital economy, cash is king
• Finland – Competition & regulation in the Finnish ATM industry
• Gibraltar – new note
• India – Digital payments are growing in India but many want cash
• Japan – Developments in Banknotes in Circulation since the Start of the Pandemic.
• Japan – man charged with ATM maintenance stole almost 100 million yen in a single day
• Jordan – counterfeiting
• Liberia – currency changeover is on course
• Malaysia – toward cashless
• Moneygram invests in Coinme, crypto ATM operator
• Nigeria – cash shortages in banks will have deleterious consequences
• Nigeria – not ready for cashless
• South Africa – dye stained notes
• South Korea – banknotes lasting longer in circulation due to Covid
• Spain reduces ATM Numbers to 2002 levels as country moves to digital payments
• Sweden – banknote history
• Taiwan – banknote history

December 31, 2021 – January 3, 2022

• Belgium – history of the currency
• CMS Info is a key player in ATM managed services space & has a massive order book
• Croatia – euro introduction in 2022
• France – history of the franc
• Guyana – counterfeit US currency
• India – Rs47k in fake currency found in RBI currency chest
• India – new ATM service charges nationwide
• India – Kanpur cash haul cries for surprise encores of demonetisation till sinister cash is purged
• India – scrapped sample notes strewn all over the road in state of Telangana
• India – Govt currency PSU mints Rs 240 crore dividend amid Covid-19
• Ireland – Why cash should always trump paying by bank cards
• Ireland – The Central Bank of Ireland continues to exchange old pound banknotes and coins for euros
• Israel – coins from different eras found off the coast
• Japan Year-End Amount of Bank Notes Hits Another Record High
• Latvia – toward cashless
• Portugal – billions in old escudo notes still outstanding
• Switzerland – banknote history
• Trinidad/Tobago – old banknotes no longer legal tender
• UK – Fake £1 coin epidemic: How to spot a counterfeit
• UK – How Staffordshire became home to top forgers
• US – Delay in naming US treasurer holds up release of note series
• US/Massachusetts – The Boston Mint and the First Colonial Coins

December 29 – 31, 2021

• Afghanistan – 1.7 billion afghanis in old currency is burned
• Costa Rica – Central Bank extends deadline for withdrawal from circulation of paper banknotes
• Europe – 5 obscure things to know about the euro, on its 20^th anniversary
• Philippines – BSP tells banks to ensure ATM availability during the holiday season
• Singapore – Demand for new S$2 banknotes during festive periods down by 20% each year
• The last days of cash, will we miss it when its gone?
• UK – Decimalisation-Day: 15 February 1971
• UK – Royal Mint reveals 2022 coin designs
• Ukraine – 6 commemorative banknotes
• US – Lincoln double die pennies explained – & what makes the 1958 coin worth up to $214,000

December 27 – 29, 2021

• Australia – Interpol helped bust up a counterfeit ring in 1966
• Cash is an offline thing
• Egypt – financial inclusion & the cashless society
• Euro banknote artist fears redesign could spark rivalry
• Europe – inside ECBs secret lab to sniff out counterfeits
• Greece – Flashback to when Greece had a 100-billion-drachma banknote
• India – is imposing a penalty the best way to prevent ATMs from running out of cash
• India – how did Rs2000 notes suddenly disappear?
• India – tax evasion on a large scale using cash
• Ireland – central Bank says consumers will retain choice of using cash instead of electronic payments
• Mexico – the value of Mexico’s first banknote
• Nigeria – Currency in Circulation Rose To N3.15trn In November
• Oman – toward cashless
• Philippines – BSP investigates high quality counterfeits
• Poland – Rare 17th century ‘Battle of Khotyn’ gold coin set to fetch eye-watering 1 million USD at auction
• Qatar – exchanging old notes for new notes
• Singapore – bank ATMs dispensing new & superfit currency for the New Year
• Sri Lanka – counterfeit warning
• Suriname – banknote history
• UAE – polymer notes
• US/Connecticut – Willamantic, 19^th century banknotes & frogs
• Worldwide number of Bitcoin ATMs at 34,000

December 25 – 27, 2021

• Australia – toward cashless
• Egypt – CBE on fees for depositing & withdrawing cash at ATMs
• Europe – two decades after the euro, billions in old cash is still being hoarded
• Germany – ATM attacks
• Germany – the persistence of cash payments
• Hungary – counterfeits
• India – counterfeits currency gang arrested
• India – Customers struggle with smudged notes dispensed at ATM kiosks in Haveri
• Italy – How to use cash from January 1st: Watch out for fines. There is an exception
• New Zealand has a problem with the defacing of its notes
• South Korea – State intelligence agency on alert over fake US$50 note
• The ATM is one of ten inventions that has Scottish roots.
• UK – Britain’s biggest ever hoard of forged coins found in Staffordshire field – It was buried by a notorious criminal and uncovered by a novice metal detectorist
• UK – Metal Detectorists Uncover Largest Hoard of Anglo-Saxon Gold Coins in England, Dating Back 1,400 Years
• US Mint coin production, November 2021
• US – valuable collectible coins
• US/Michigan – In 1933, when banks closed, Detroit printed its own money

December 22 – 25, 2021

• Africa – toward cashless
• Costa Rica – ¢2,000, ¢5,000, ¢20,000 and ¢50,000 banknotes printed on cotton paper lose value in 2022
• COVID-19 pandemic increases the divide between cash & cashless payment users in Europe
• Fed order for notes might increase in 2022
• Hong Kong – exchanging old banknotes for new banknotes
• India – Despite demonetisation, high value notes of Rs 500 & Rs 2000 make up 85.7% of total currency in circulation
• india – finance ministry: 99.31% of money returned to circulation after demonetisation
• India – 3 arrested for counterfeiting in Goa
• India – Pakistan still pumping counterfeit currency into the country
• Mauritania – new note
• Nigeria – ​Interswitch reiterates commitment to digitisation of the cash-intensive transport sector
• Pakistan – Cabinet extends old-design banknotes exchange date
• Sao Tome & Principe – banknote history
• Switzerland – 74 month sentence for ATM bomber
• Taiwan – regulator frowns on Bitcoin ATMs
• Turkey – Anatolian coins return to the country
• UAE – new polymer substrate banknote
• Uganda: KBC introduces ATM recycler machines
• UK – Man, 31, is facing jail after police found more than £1 million in counterfeit notes stashed in suitcases in his flat
• UK – Twenty pence coin sells for £430 because of bizarre error on one side
• UK – Jersey Celtic coin hoard bought by island’s government
• US – why Janet Yellen’s signature is not yet on US currency
• Zimbabwe – Cash shortage hits Zimbabwe banks as thousands stranded for Christmas

December 19 – 22, 2021

• Africa – toward cashless
• Ancient Greek coinage
• Bangladesh – financial inclusion progress
• Belarus – old currency being recalled
• Canada – will Canadians want Charles III on banknotes when the time comes?
• China’s c.bank denies rumors that director of China’s banknotes printer is being probed for unauthorized printing $313b banknotes without authorization
• Europe – counterfeit 2 euro coins
• French City Uses Fake Euro Bills in Anti-Dog Poop Drive
• India – Did you know India has a Zero Rupee note? It is distributed to fight systemic corruption
• India – counterfeits seized
• Israel – Underwater treasure: 1,700-year-old coins among shipwrecked items found off Caesarea
• Italy – Albanian tries to smuggle E320k in banknotes out of the country
• Nigeria – amount of currency in circulation
• Nigeria – EFCC nabs suspect with 576 ATM cards in Kano
• Philippines – counterfeits
• Poland – A Rare Polish Gold Coin Could Fetch up to $1 Million at Auction
• Singapore – Bank employee replaces genuine notes with fake bills & blank paper; embezzles S$1.13m from company safe
• Sri Lanka – banknote history
• Sri Lanka – counterfeits
• Sri Lanka – counterfeit warning
• Swaziland – banknote history
• The Influence of Historic & Ancient Coin Designs
• UK – Detectorist finds 10,000 Roman coins in Huntingdon hoard
• UK – on cash acceptance in London
• US – Harriet Tubman’s family disappointed by lack of action of the $20
• Vietnam – Banknotes with tiger images hit market, 10 times more expensive than face value

December 16 – 19, 2021

• Bangladesh owns lowest rate of ATMs per population among six South Asian nations
• Banknotes from Qatar, England & Fiji Win Awards at the Regional Banknote & ID Document of the Year Awards 2021
• France – First banque de france banknotes
• Germany – vulnerability of ATMs to skimming, bombings, card theft
• IACA Excellence in Currency 2022 Awards – finalists
• India – on the value of damaged notes
• Ireland – Coffee & whiskey at the Central Bank – how euros replaced the Irish pound 20 years ago
• Italy – Italian banknotes prior to unification.
• Spain – Discovering sources of Roman silver coinage from the Iberian Peninsula
• Spain – Silver isotope & volatile trace element systematics in galena samples from the Iberian Peninsula & the quest for silver sources of Roman coinage
• First Legal Tender Banknote with a Kurz Thread
• New Zealand – illegally defaced banknotes
• New Zealand – Reserve Bank rejects multiple claims over fake bank notes
• Philippines – controversy over the design of new banknotes
• Philippines – controversy over the design of new banknotes 2
• Romania – polymer banknotes
• Scotland – firms operating ATMs facing challenges
• The demand for cryptocurrency ATMs is increasing
• UK – Gang who carried out ATM raids across West Midlands ordered to pay back £200k
• UK – The Bank of England banknote, a short history
• US – 1914 Lincoln penny explained – & what makes the coin worth up to $3,673
• Why this ancient civilization fell out of love with gold for 700 Years – Analysis of 4,500 artifacts suggests an early society between the Black & Caspian Seas turned against bling
• Technological rejection in regions of early gold innovation revealed by geospatial analysis

December 15 – 16, 2021

• Afghanistan – counterfeits in Kabul
• Britney Spears celebrates as she uses a cash point for the first time in 13 years – & withdraws £220
• CCL Secure
• Crane Currency at the forefront of making the currency industry more sustainable
• Gleitsmann Security Inks Announces Successful Establishment of Security Feature mouveGSI
• Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei – a hypothetical common banknote
• Need for Coins & Bank Notes Continues
• South Sudan – banknote history
• The end of cash, the rise of crypto and the future of payments.
• The high cost of going cashless
• Uganda – cardless ATMs
• UK – banks announce new access to cash solutions – are they enough? 11 free-to-use ATMs & five new shared banking hubs will be created
• UK – banks join forces on access to cash
• UK – Bank of England – commitments to support the UK’s wholesale cash distribution network
• UK – Community Access to Cash Pilots Report, December 2021.
• US – beware of a surge in counterfeit postage stamps
• US/Maine – counterfeit $3 notes in 1843 Belfast Maine
• What do cashless payments mean for business & society

December 13 – 14, 2021

• As contactless payments surge, a less-cash future beckons
• ATM of the future will be much more personalized
• Canada – man arrested with counterfeit cheques & bills
• India – 8 arrested for counterfeiting
• India – youtube teaches how to produce counterfeits
• Ireland – cash is still king for many people
• Ireland – Bitcoin ATMs used to launder money into cryptocurrency
• North Macedonia – currency & coin history
• Oman – cash vs electronic payments
• Pakistan – SBP – cabinet to ponder an extension for old banknotes
• Philippines – BSP is not going to demonetize any banknotes
• South Africa – cardless withdrawals at ATMs
• South Korea – banknote history
• St Helena – banknote history
• UK – Which? calls for immediate pause on bank branch closures to protect access to cash
• UK – is it time to stop talking about cash in circulation?
• US/North Dakota – thousands of dollars in counterfeits seized

December 11 – 13, 2021

• Afghanistan – worn out banknotes add to economic woes
• Cyprus – card vs cash usage
• Europe – EU citizens can help redesign the new euro banknotes
• Expert reveals three cash machine scams to watch – and all the warning signs
• Finland – Bitcoin ATMs are taking over all corners in Helsinki & Finland
• Honduras – Bitcoin ATM
• Ireland – Donald Clarke: Cash is dying, & who will mourn the euro banknote?
• Ireland – shoppers should always be able to choose cash or cash
• Liberia – new notes
• Philippines – BSP – design error on sample polymer substrate note has been corrected
• Philippines – BSP to replace heroes on P1,000 bill with Philippine eagle
• Philippines – History at stake: P1,000 redesign angers World War II heroes’ families
• UK – 20 poonds: Man caught out after trying to buy consoles with fake notes
• UK – Bank of England alert as old £20 & £50 notes to become void – when do yours expire?
• US – origins & history of the US Secret Service

December 6 – 11, 2021

• Azerbaijan – new note
• Canada – counterfeit C$100s
• China – Board director of China’s banknotes printer surrenders to police
• Counter-counterfeit awards
• CR2 continues to drive innovation as cardless ATM access goes live in 8 countries.
• Europe – ECB to redesign euro banknotes by 2024
• Falkland Islanders lose their last cash machine
• Finland – Environmental impacts of cash supply in 2020: less transport kilometres
• France – counterfeit euros
• Guam – new fleet of ATMs
• India – how many ATMs?
• India – ATM fraudsters arrested
• India – RBI – notes in circulation
• Japan – Developments in Banknotes in Circulation since the Start of the Pandemic
• Myanmar – central bank indicates it is not issuing new notes
• Nigeria – digital payments fail to dent demand for cash
• Nigeria – Suspect arrested for using noodles to smuggle 2,863 ATM cards gets N50 million bail
• Qatar – old banknotes being demonetized as of December 31 2021
• Risk assessment of the threat of SARS-CoV-2 on banknotes
• South Africa – The current state of SA’s cash economy
• South Africa – banknote history
• Trinidad/Tobago – cotton banknotes still legal tender until 1/1/2022
• Solomon Islands – banknote history
• Spain – banknote history
• Spectra Systems’ new customer K-Cup optical material orders exceed expectations
• UK – cash is checking out as more than half of Brits don’t carry it, according to new research
• UK Cash Access & Payment Choice. Quite Simply – Legislation is Required.
• Uruguay – crypto ATM
• US – cash is dying but we aren’t ready to bury it
• US – Ex-treasure hunter who found gold coins from 1857 shipwreck still stuck in jail
• US – Mint ships 2/3 of half dollar production to the Fed
• US – How America’s Cashless Economy Has Punished the Homeless for Being Poor
• US – December 10, 1690, First paper currency is issued in Britain’s North American colonies
• US – FDR & the design of the US$1 bill
• US – National ATM Council applauds update to BSA/AML examination manual
• US/South Dakota – Pallets of silver coins seized in international fraud case
• US/Washington – is there a quarter shortage?
• Venezuela is reviving its oil fields with backpacks full of cash
• Visa warns against misuse of ‘cashless ATMs’ used by cannabis retailers to skirt restrictions
• We’re almost cashless societies, but let’s not rush too quickly into future

December 1 – 6, 2021

• CEPR – The Great Covid Cash Surge – Digitalisation Hasn’t Dented Cash’s Safe Haven Role.
• Dominican Republic – new note
• Empire of Silver, a new monetary history of China, Jin Xu, Yale University Press, 2021
• Europe – Trends in the European post-pandemic payments landscape, study.
• Gibraltar – new banknote
• India – ATM withdrawal fees to increase in January 2022
• Malaysia – toward cashless
• NAC applauds federal bank regulators for updating & clarifying BSA/AML examination manual section on banking of independent ATM companies.
• Pakistan – Student’s banknote design mistaken for ‘new currency’
• Philippines – 1st batch of polymer peso banknotes to arrive April ‘22
• Piraeus Bank renews its self-service network with Diebold Nixdorf’s DN Series ATMs
• Refusal to take cash for health reasons is bogus, says lobby group
• Somalia – banknote history
• The role of coin in a digital world
• UK – girl makes a “money cake” for her mother’s birthday
• UK – Retailers urged to accept cash payments that match new £100 contactless limit
• UK – Shops step in to supply cash as ATMs close.
• US – Circulating coinage production totals fall for 2021
• US – the 3 currencies of 1960
• US/New York – NYC businesses told to pay up after not accepting cash
• US/New York – Van Leeuwen continues to violate NYC’s cashless ban despite already getting fined
• Where cash is still king, governments are partnering with super app Grab to bring people into the formal economy

November 20 – 30, 2021

• Africa’s Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story – book.
• Africa’s Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story – revew.
• Australia – The psychological reason many Australians are keeping thousands of dollars in a kitchen jar instead of in a bank account – even as tap & go replaces cash
• Bangladesh busts Pak-run fake Indian currency racket
• Bangladesh – financial inclusion & electronic banking/payments
• Cash: A Blessing or a Curse?
• Cryptobanknotes – hybrid banknote technology for today
• Curacao – counterfeits
• DeLaRue – 2021/22 Half Year Results
• DeLaRue overcomes loss of UK passport but warns there may be more job cuts
• Digital payment is steering us away from banknotes
• Futuristic bank machines offered 24-hour service in the 1970s
• How the rise of cash machines changed society
• India – engineer nabbed with a cache of demonetized Rs500 notes
• India – ‘Cash’ review: A sly comedy about demonetisation
• Indonesia – BI committed to distributing banknotes nationally despite challenges
• Israel – 11-year-old finds ‘Holy Jerusalem’ silver coin likely minted in the Temple
• Israel – Jerusalem woman accidentally burnt NIS 10,000 in an attempt to disinfect the currency notes from COVID-19. Later, bank gave her the full refund.
• Malawi – cash vs cashless
• Malawi – new banknote
• Malaysia – toward cashless
• Mexico – new note
• New banknote holograms win international security awards
• North Korea steps up efforts to increase public trust in money vouchers
• Romania – new note
• Rome – how much gold is in that Roman coin?
• Seychelles – banknote history
• Shiba Inu ATM: Here’s a Futuristic Demonstration on How it Could Work
• Singapore – banknote history
• Somalia – financial inclusion, e-commerce, digital payments
• Spectra Systems business prospects
• Speculating on the future of cash
• Sri Lanka – toward cashless
• Thailand – fake US dollar gangs
• Turkey – counterfeits
• UK – BoE official says cash will be a spent force in light of the rise of CBDC
• UK – Ladbrokes Coral Bilked Out of £600K by UK Gang Using Laminated Banknotes
• UK – Norfolk Anglo-Saxon coin hoard could be worth £400,000
• UK – The Bank of England’s Journey to Polymer
• UK – Stockton banknote is example of how Royal Mail defeated highway robbery in the 1700s
• US Mint coin production through October 2021
• US – Rare coin minted in Colonial New England sells for $350,000
• US/California – cash truck spill
• US/Michigan – wildcat banking in the antebellum US
• US/Minnesota – banknote history
• US/Rhode Island – counterfeit check ring
• US/Washington – Quarter shortage creates a two-bit black market in coin-operated Seattle
• Venezuela – banknotes & hyperinflation
• World’s most beautiful banknotes

November 15 – 19, 2021

• Australia – counterfeits in Queensland
• Australia – Review of Banknote Distribution Arrangements: Issues Paper
• Bahrain – toward cashless
• Branch Transformation – Podcast tackles post-pandemic ATM world
• Cashless revolution & younger generation will shape & disrupt retail
• Currency trivia
• Cyprus – counterfeits
• Egypt – toward cashless
• Enhancing banknote authentication by guiding attention to security features & manipulating prevalence expectancy
• Germany – Massive hoard of Roman-era silver coins unearthed
• Ghana – electronic transaction fee will erode cashless gains
• Hong Kong – toward cashless
• India – counterfeits
• India – counterfeiters busted
• Ireland – a cashless society is a vulnerable society
• Kazakhstan – banknote history
• Latin America – cash is no longer king.
• Nepal – counterfeits
• Philippines – Australia to print country’s first polymer substrate notes
• Philippines – fiber vs polymer for banknotes
• Philippines – is it time to phase out paper bills?
• Serbia – banknote history
• Sierra Leone – banknote history
• South Africa – dye-stained notes in circulation
• Thailand – spelling errors in early Siam banknote
• The countries pioneering non-cash payments.
• UK – Cash isn’t king any more, but I don’t want to lose coins & notes for good
• US – 1790s Rarities, Old West Wonders & Modern Marvels Drive Heritage’s US Coins Auction to $11.4 Million
• US – on the obsolete US$500 note
• US/Pennsylvania – Romanian national convicted of ATM skimming gets 3 ½ year sentence, followed by deportation
• Venezuela turns to flashy casinos, SUVs & US dollars for an economic boost
• Vietnam – toward cashless
• Zimbabwe’s government breaks with its own currency policy.
• Zimbabwe – Buying & Selling Half-shredded Banknotes has become the Latest Hustle

November 8 – 15, 2021

• Banknote forecasting with big data tools on the rise – ¾ of central bank currency departments yet to use big data ($)
• Canada – Archeologists find rare 520-year-old English coin in Newfoundland
• Canada – don’t bet on the idea of a completely cashless society
• Cash in, fraud out: Criminals target bitcoin ATMs as crypto popularity surges
• ‘Future of Money’ economist says the end of cash is coming—here’s what could replace it.
• Future of Money
• Half of central banks quarantined banknotes during the pandemic – But only 37% ran a study relating to Covid-19 and banknotes
• High denomination banknotes have longer lifespans ($)
• India – economy likely to remain cash dependent for many years to come
• Liberia – new L$100 banknote
• Mexico – cashless payments.
• Netherlands – Cash Processing Solutions awarded Framework Agreement for the supply of multiple High-Speed Banknote Sorting machines by the De Nederlandsche Bank
• Netherlands – The Future of Cash
• Nigeria – CBN says circulation of fake currency dropped by 20.8% in 2020
• Rwanda – banknote history
• Saudi Arabia – banknote history
• Scotland – banknote history
• South Sudan arrests suspect who had counterfeit money machines
• Spain – counterfeit euros, online, arrests
• Sweden – Bank may have to destroy fortune left in banknotes
• Syria – new banknote
• Thailand – counterfeit US$100s made with offset printing
• UK – cash acceptance within SMEs
• UK – money & the Bank of England, podcast
• UK – Retailers cautioned against dismissing cash transactions
• US – on collecting rare, higher denomination US banknotes
• US – rare & valuable dimes
• Venezuela – artist brings new value to discarded banknotes

November 1 – 8, 2021

• Azerbaijan – commemorative banknotes & coins
• Cash recycling for the individual, & the community
• Cash usage & the underground economy.
• Currency managers fighting counterfeits with new security features ($)
• Digital money is a strong challenger to traditional coins & currency
• Diversity & inclusion in US currency
• IMF – 2021 Financial Access Survey Results
• India – Consumer Payment Choice & the Heterogeneous Impact of India’s Demonetization.
• India – 5 years since demonetisation, cash rules India more than ever – Record cash in economy, digital payments displace credit cards
• India – AGS betting on cash-recycling machines, files papers for Rs 800cr IPO
• Japan – fake 10,000 yen banknotes
• Japan – new 500 yen coins
• Lebanese carry ‘worthless’ stacks of cash after currency crash
• Nepal – new notes
• Netherlands – the future of cash
• Nigeria – CBN Currency Operation Annual Report for 2020
• Nigeria – CBN disposed N698,480.00 million worth of unfit banknotes in 2020
• Nigeria – banks shutdown 649 ATMs in 2020
• Philippines – BSP: No shortage of banknotes during Christmas season
• Philippines – P480,000 worth of fake banknotes seized
• Philippines – counterfeits
• Philippines – From abaca to polymer
• Raised ink is the main banknote feature for the visually impaired ($)
• Romania – banking history
• Russia – banknote history
• Rwanda – cashless payments & financial inclusion
• Saudi Arabia – ATM cash withdrawals declining
• South Sudan – 14 arrested with $90m in fake US dollars & 400k fake Sudanese pounds
• Switzerland – toward cashless
• Thailand – counterfeiters selling fake US$100s on Facebook
• Thailand – fake US dollars
• UK – Largest Anglo-Saxon gold coin hoard found in Norfolk
• UK – Norwich Castle Museum looks to acquire largest ever hoard of gold coins
• US – coin shortage
• US – FBI Warns of Fraudulent Schemes Leveraging Cryptocurrency ATMs & QR Codes to Facilitate Payment
• US – new note series awaits appointment of new US Treasurer
• Vietnam – toward cashless
• Why are there so many banknotes in circulation

October 24 – 30, 2021

• ATM vulnerabilities are enabling illegal cash withdrawals
• Austria – cache of 6000 ancient coins found on a farm
• Barbados – central bank caps ATM transaction fees.
• Canada – new dime
• Canadians hoarded cash during the early months of the pandemic
• Cash – a roadmap to sustainability
• China – counterfeit money detectors
• CloudCoin to join BitCoin in 40,000 ATMs worldwide including 15,000 In US
• Crane – IIIQ 2021 results
• Germany – Before Digital Euro, Europe must win over Germany’s worried cash-users
• How cash automation technologies can support your business in a labor shortage & beyond
• India – 5 years after demonetisation, scrapped notes still doing the rounds
• Kenya – toward cashless
• Nepal – counterfeits
• North Koreans using cash coupons as country struggles to print new bills – Expert notes early signs of inflation present in DPRK as rigid pandemic lockdown approaches third year
• Philippines – BSP assures an adequate supply of banknotes
• Philippines – on BSP & banknotes.
• Philippines – polymer notes in 2022?
• Portugal – banknote history
• Portugal – From 2002 until today, three out of four escudo banknotes have not been returned to Banco de Portugal
• Qatar – banknote history
• Sri Lanka – 2 arrested with a 1 million euro note
• Tanzania – cash vs cashless
• The big question in humanitarian aid: Cash or cashless?
• The great Covid cash surge – digitalisation hasn’t dented cash’s safe haven role.
• Uganda – on the cost of printing money
• UK – From Post to Pounds & Pennies – How Post Office Protects UK Cash
• UK – street vendors & the cashless society
• UK – toward cashless.
• US – BEP prepares its FY 2022 budget including new facility
• US – Cash Advocates Fight for American Freedoms of Payment Choice in Washington
• US/Massachusetts – Bulgarian sentenced to 18 months in jail for ATM skimming
• US/Pennsylvania – 18 month sentence for counterfeiting
• US – 3 banks agree to $66 million ATM antitrust deal, class counsel says
• US/Virginia – woman sentenced to 12 years in prison for $32 million counterfeit coupon scam
• US – 1944 Lincoln Steel Penny sold for $373K as it’s declared the second most valuable penny in the world
• Vietnam – toward cashless
• Walmart – installing 200 Bitcoin ATMs.
• Why offering cash as a repayment method will help your lending business win new clients & drive financial inclusion

October 17 – 24, 2021

• Australia – counterfeits
• Banknote technology advancing
• Banknotes that promise maximum security
• Beautiful banknotes from around the world
• Cambodia – new banknote
• Colombia – cryptocurrency ATMs
• Costa Rica goes to polymer
• Georgia – US dollar counterfeits
• Ghana – Bank of Ghana to Phase out 1 & 2 Ghana cedi notes
• India – what are banknotes made of?
• Israel – Archaeologists excavate hoard of rare silver coins
• Malaysia – Deadline for registration of currency processors extended
• Philippines – toward cashless
• Retailers & banks encourage consumers to recirculate coins
• Security holograms market will reflect significant growth prospects during 2017-2025
• South Africa – A tale of paper & gold: the material history money in South Africa
• Spanish court throws out lawsuit against US treasure hunters
• Switzerland – ATMs face redundancy
• The future of money – a complete revolution?
• UK – HMS Victory: ‘Good luck’ farthing coin found under ship’s mast
• UK – Parliament – Access to Cash, Volume 701: debated on 20 October 2021
• UK – New lobby group formed with mission to ensure consumers can continue to use cash on the high street
• UK – Royal Mint plans to extract gold from phones.
• UK – The mystery of the missing £50bn – Why does no one care where most of our banknotes are?
• US – Rare coin made in Colonial New England could fetch $300,000

October 10 – 17, 2021

• Australia – toward cashless – Woolworths transactions hit 90 per cent digital, bank withdrawals tank, Paypal surges
• Azerbaijan – Several banks suspend accepting USD banknotes via ATMs
• Bahamas – new family of banknotes
• Canada – money cemetery – where do our notes end up?
• Cash, another nail in the coffin
• Croatia – ½ of the 6000 ATMs in the country could be closed
• DeLaRue business outlook
• Egypt – toward cashless
• India – gang with counterfeit notes arrested
• India – 4 arrested for counterfeiting
• India – garbage collection ATMs in Pune
• India – is the sun setting on ATMs?
• Japan – Fake police seizing real cash on false claims of counterfeits
• Lebanon – Thousands of US dollars found in garbage in Lebanon village – but they’re fake
• Liberia – new banknote plans
• L’identification, la quatrième fonction de la monnaie
• New Zealand – Man spends fake $50 notes printed on plain paper with no security features
• Paraguay – banknote history
• Peru – banknote history
• Philippines – banknote history
• Slovenia – pandemic makes cashless payments more popular
• South Africa – counterfeits
• Spectra Systems Gets New Order; Expects to Beat 2021 Market Forecasts
• Sri Lanka – touchless ATM technology
• The evolution & extinction of Lady Liberty.
• The evolution & extinction of Lady Liberty, paper
• UAE – toward cashless
• UK – Britons urged to cash in their old bank notes and switch for valid cash
• UK – the rarest coins in circulation
• US – Lawmakers clash over government’s role in preserving cash
• US – Mint coin production in September 2021
• US – Paper Money Profile: United States Series 1976 $2 Federal Reserve Note
• US – Retail redlining or small business cost-saver, lawmakers debate the impact of going cashless.
• US/Florida – Lawmakers in FL want to protect residents’ rights to pay via cash at businesses
• What is the future of cash?
• What the history of money says about its future

October 1- 9, 2021

• ATMIA – New Membership Designed Specifically for Financial Institutions
• Australia to be completely cashless in a decade, experts predict, according to survey
• Bahamas – new banknote
• Bitcoin Depot surpasses 5,000 crypto ATMs & solidifies position as largest crypto ATM network in North America.
• Canada – External review finds ‘toxic’ workplace environment persists at Royal Canadian Mint
• Canada – new loonie
• Canada – Our new banknotes: the journey from design to launch
• Cashless economies raise concerns about financial inclusion
• China – toward cashless
• Cayman Islands – forged notes
• Costa Rica – polymer banknotes
• Dominican Republic – new note
• Europe – how cash use is changing.
• Germany/Netherlands – ATM bombing
• Ghana – banks call for increased ATM fraud education
• Hong Kong – inkjet counterfeits
• How to tackle the last 10 years increase of ATM attacks in Germany?
• India – counterfeits
• India – bank ATMs empty despite RBI penalties
• India – RBI reviewing penalty scheme for dry ATMs
• India Post & financial inclusion
• Kenya – toward cashless
• Mexico – polymer banknote
• New Zealand – Should banks be forced by law to supply cash to customers?
• Nigeria – counterfeit US dollars & Zaire currency
• On the money: Kate Sheppard & the making of a New Zealand feminist icon
• Rare gold coins dug out of walls of French mansion sold for $1.2m
• South Africa – dye-stained banknotes in circulation
• South Korea – digital banking is driving down the count of branches & ATMs
• The transformation in the use of cash & digital payments during the Covid-19 pandemic.
• UK – fake £50 notes
• US Treasury Secretary endorses Harriet Tubman on $20 bill
• UK – Two men deny charges over £1m Viking hoard of coins and silver
• US/Florida – Proposed ban on no-cash businesses could cost violators up $10K
• US/Illinois – arrest of Chicago ATM attack gang
• US/Massachusetts – Romanian National Pleads Guilty to Role in Multi-State ATM Skimming Scheme
• US/Pennsylvania – Customs officials seize $6.5 million in fake money from Russia
• Venezuela – new banknote series

September 20 – 30, 2021

• Ancient dogecoin: 2,000 years ago, humans used dogs as currency, study suggests – From genetic evidence, researchers deduced that ancient cultures traded dogs across Asia
• Ancient dogecoin study
• ATMIA – webinar – How Covid-19 is shaping ATM trends and driving innovation? 10/20/2021.
• Bangladesh – counterfeits
• Denmark – Danish museum lends artist £60,000 for work incorporating banknotes – only for him to keep the cash and name the blank installation ‘Take the Money and Run’
• Ghana – ATM fraud
• Ghana – phasing out GH¢1 & GH¢2 notes but will retain GH¢1 & GH¢2 coins
• Ghana – Nigerian arrested with 656 ATM cards
• India – cash use will decline precipitously with the rise of digital payments
• India – counterfeiting stats
• India – counterfeits
• India – history of the rupee
• India – toward cashless
• India – Viral message on Rs 500 note security thread debunked
• Malaysia – Having ATMs in rural areas up to govt, not banks, says ex-minister
• Money is the one true god, video
• New Zealand – banknote history
• Nigeria – court restricts CBN’s cash deposit & withdrawal taxes
• Norway – banknote history
• Oman – ATM usage on the decline
• Oman – banknote history
• Pakistan – banknote history
• Philippines – BSP says P20 banknotes stay as legal tender amid circulating false group chat messages
• Romania – new note
• Singapore – counterfeits
• South Korea – ATM count in decline
• Spain – Amateur divers discover ‘enormously valuable’ hoard of Roman coins
• Swaziland – new notes
• Treasure hunter finds gold hoard buried by Iron Age chieftain
• UK – Britons forced to relinquish cash against their will
• UK – Gold Charles I coin brings in tens of thousands at auction
• UK shoppers have one year to spend £24 billion of old banknotes
• UK – We need to protect access to cash, but there’s no one-size-fits-all approach
• US – cash usage & cash hoarding
• US Mint produces nearly 1.2 billion coins for circulation in August
• US – OIG report on BEP includes update on redesign schedule
• US – Ryder Suddenly Out as Director of the Mint
• US – Samuel Upham & Confederate counterfeits

September 13 – 20, 2021

• Barbados – ATM regulations unfair to low-income people
• Cash is disappearing & the unbanked are stranded
• Cash Processing Solutions secures significant order for Single Note Inspection Systems from Indian State Printworks
• DeLaRue in Malta
• Dominican Republic – new banknote
• Eastern Europe – banknote history
• Europe – the euro & real/fake bridges
• Europe – miniature bridges in Rotterdam are the bridges on the euro
• How a cashless society may spell doom for an entire industry
• How much do you know about currency, a quiz
• India – counterfeits.
• Koenig & Bauer creates house notes to showcase product development
• Mexico – Banxico receives recognition from IBNS for Banknote of the Year 2020
• Nepal – banknote history
• Netherlands – banknote history
• São Tomé & Príncipe reverts to cotton for new bank notes
• Somalia – toward cashless
• Sustainability – hallmark of cash
• The dangers of running a multi-million dollar cash business
• Uganda – toward cashless
• US$100 bills do not contain tags in their blue security ribbons that are connected to devices used by law enforcement
• UK – One in five people blocked from paying in cash since lockdown rules eased
• UK – cash is the top choice for parking payments
• UK – pennies back in production
• UK – Road workers discover Roman coins & more while building a new bypass
• US – history of Buffalo Nickels
• US – Philadelphia CBP officers seize nearly $100k in counterfeit currency from Russia destined for Illinois
• Zimbabwe artist turns worthless old Mugabe-era banknotes into paintings

September 6 – 13, 2021

• Bahrain – cashless payments IH 2021
• BRICS report makes case for developing safe digital architecture to promote financial inclusion
• CCL – webinar – Costa Rica’s introduction of polymer banknotes, 9/29/2021
• China – TDI webinar – Cashless Payments – Insights from China & What the Future Holds for Insurers, 9/16/2021.
• France – Workmen discover hoard of 17^th century gold coins in wall of Brittany manor house
• FRB Philadelphia – The Future of Cash
• Germany – Three in four Germans want cashless payment options at every point of sale
• Going Cashless: It’s Not What You Think
• Happy 50th Birthday, ATM
• ICA contribution to the Bank of England consultation on its discussion paper ‘New Forms of Digital Money’
• India – ATM gang targeting banks is busted
• India – Banks urge RBI to relax rules on ATM cash-outs
• India – Cops trace Nigerian woman heading ATM cash theft gang to Gurugram
• India’s Largest Non-Bank ATM Operator Files Papers For IPO: Here’s What You Need To Know
• India – money museum in Bengaluru
• India – police bust 2 gangs of ATM fraudsters
• Japan – Police accuse 3 Vietnam nationals of passing fake antique 10,000-yen notes in Tokyo
• Kenya – ATM count at an 8-year low.
• MDC – webinar – Cash vs cashless, the hidden costs to consumers & society, 9/16/2021.
• Mozambique – counterfeits
• New Zealand – Fake Auckland $100,000 cash drop: Commerce Commission issues warning, only $3600 in real money used   
• New Zealand – 2 years for counterfeiting
• Nicaragua – currency history
• Nigeria – worries over currency mutilation syndrome
• Nigeria – banknote history
• North America & Europe Lead Bitcoin ATM Charge
• Number of cashless transactions by region
• Philippines – BSP issues tips in determining fake from authentic banknotes
• Tubman, Jackson, and Boggs: How Art Predicted the Future of US Paper Money
• UK – A cashless society is brilliant…if you are a spy or a thief
• UK – Link – 2020-2021 Annual Report – Protecting access to cash.
• UK – Man delivered quarter of a million pounds of criminal cash in bin bags
• US – The Top 6 Most Expensive US Coins
• US/Illinois – 5 years for counterfeiting
• Which European country is winning the race to become completely cashless?
• Zambia – central bank explains the cash shortage

September 1 – 6, 2021

• A kaleidoscopic journey through money
• Are CBDCs the future of cash?
• Argentina – counterfeit bust
• Art Fiduciaire, symbolism in banknotes
• ATMIA releases Cash Stories highlighting the positive impact of cash on everyday life & during the pandemic
• Bitcoin ATM firms seek to shape regulations
• Cash not only survived the pandemic — it came out stronger
• Coinage in the Roman provinces
• Germany – central bank inundated with money damaged in floods
• Germany – bank literally launders €51,000,000 after notes damaged in flood
• Hong Kong – Historic banknote certified by PMG realizes over $200,000
• India – 3 arrested for counterfeiting
• India Currency: security features of banknotes in circulation- security thread, colour shifting ink, angular bleed lines & others
• Japan starts printing new banknote
• Japan – new note
• Money Heist: Why you need a lot more than a ‘professor’ to take over the Royal Mint
• Namibia – banknote history
• Nigeria – digital currency & the cost of paper currency
• Northern Ireland – Revealed: No PSNI officers assigned to 2004 Northern Bank robbery investigation
• Portals – on banknote paper
• Seychelles – toward cashless
• Spartan?: tougher, ultra?durable, cost?effective banknotes for the note/coin boundary
• The case for cash, why we still need paper money
• UAE – toward cashless
• UK – As central banks debate digital currencies, the UK aims to protect cash
• UK – Metal detectorist finds Viking coin hoard in the Isle of Man
• UK – Warning as old £20 notes will become unusable this month – A certain cut-off date means you won’t be able to use the old paper notes
• US – 2^nd Circuit: No contempt sanctions against Chinese banks in $1 billion counterfeit case
• US Mint officials discuss challenges of demand spike & pandemic
• Uzbekistan – new note

August 21 – 26, 2021

• Afghanistan – Afghans running out of money, ATMs shutdown for 7^th consecutive day
• Australia – is the situation for ATMs terminal?
• Bangladesh – toward cashless
• Cashless society has major benefits but we can’t ignore concerns about the power it hands to financial institutions
• China – banknote history
• China – digital financial inclusion
• Curacao – counterfeits
• How technical evolution is driving the cashless revolution
• India – crypto ATMs
• India – on exchanging mutilated notes
• India – RBI financial inclusion index
• Iraq/Kurdistan – counterfeit US dollars
• Israel – Ancient gold coins looted from archaeological sites found in Bnei Brak home
• Mexico – banknote history
• Most important features in deciding to use an ATM
• NCR on non-traditional branches
• Pakistan – counterfeits
• Philippines – 7-Eleven installs ATMs in over 500 stores
• Philippines – BSP replaces man’s termite-damaged peso bills worth P50,000
• Philippines – toward cashless
• Sierra Leone To Redenominate Its Currency, Any Lessons From Ghana`s 2007 Exercise?
• Spaniards ditch cash for card payments, but are still leaving tips
• UK – 1817 counterfeiting, crime & punishment
• UK – ‘ATMs should be a very last resort’ – criminals are targeting cash machines: What to do
• UK – Mum Left In Hysterics After Daughter Cuts Up Banknotes To Use Queen’s Face On Dolls
• US – Mint strikes coins at near-record levels to fight shortages
• US – scrap recyclers want the Mint to resume program
• US – Treasury OIG report reviews progress of BEP projects
• Yemen – currency clash

August 14 – 21, 2021

• Argentina – counterfeit pesos & counterfeit dollars
• Australia – Royal Mint Commemorates 110 Years of the Penny, 35 Years of Animalia
• Bitcoin ATMs & the road to adoption
• Canada – counterfeits
• China – toward cashless
• Denmark – toward cashless
• Firm reveals possible replacement for ink on notes
• Guatemala – commemorative banknote
• India – ATM fraud gang busted
• India – counterfeiting
• India – RBI penalty may deter banks from installing more ATMs
• India – toward cashless
• Ireland – counterfeits
• Israel – new coin
• Machine learning & ATM camera systems
• Morocco – banknote history
• Nepal – toward cashless
• Pakistan – counterfeits
• Scotland – new note
• Somalia – Central Bank Launches New Payment System, Reveals Plans to Print New Shilling Banknotes
• South Africa – Unrest saw R120 million in cash stolen from ATMs & banks
• Sri Lanka – counterfeiters arrested
• Tips & the disappearance of cash
• UK – cashed out, a fond farewell to notes & coins
• UK – Lindsey hoard: Coins stashed during English Civil War declared treasure
• UK – Two men charged over £1m Viking coins hoard
• US  – BEP reports Single Note Inspection system prevents millions in waste.
• US – Finest 1804 Silver Dollar Sells for $7.68 Million at Stack’s Bowers Auction.
• US – laundromats & the coin shortage
• US/Ohio – Alleged serial counterfeiter accused of passing fake bills while out on bond
• Will cash payments disappear anytime soon

August 8 – 13, 2021

• ATMIA – webinar – ATM developments in India, 9/8/2021
• Australia – ATM usage
• Authentication – 3D printed perovskite-based crystals have a variety of security applications
• Bahamas – new $100
• Canada – Cash & Covid-19: The Impact of the Second Wave.
• Chase survey finds how consumer relationships with cash have changed one year after the pandemic.
• Cook Islands – polymer banknote
• Egypt – rainbox mosque on new note riles Egyptians
• Europe – Catch me (if you can): assessing the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission via euro cash.
• Ghana – economy is still cash-driven despite success of mobile payments
• India – ATM new rule: Can’t withdraw cash as ATM has no money? Banks to pay Rs 10,000 fine
• India – How micro-ATMs can provide access to basic banking to every rural citizen?
• India – water ATMs
• Ireland – Circle K installs automated machines to stop staff handling cash    
• Israel discovers 1,700-year-old lump of coins
• Louisenthal – Rollingstar I+ banknote security
• Namibia – central bank warns against the use, acceptance of dye stained South African banknotes
• Philippines – BSP on mutilated bills
• Turkey – rare ancient coin seized from smugglers
• UK – Basildon counterfeit money operation could have produced ‘£200,000 of fake money’
• UK – More than ½ of all customers visiting convenience stores prefer to pay for goods using cash
• UK – Rare Jacobite banknotes set to go under the hammer
• UK – villain retailers refusing cash
• US – Brasher Doubloon
• US – Serial number key to 1840 $1,000 note’s value
• US/Florida – Cyptocurrency, ATM’s, and You
• Zimbabwe – buying counterfeit US dollars & SA rand online

August 3 – 8, 2021

• Ancient currency: glimpses of early Islamic coins
• Dominican Republic – Biggest bank’s new ATMs accept coins, more bills
• India – counterfeits
• India – 6 arrested in counterfeit case.
• Moldova – banknote history
• Mongolia – banknote history
• Myanmar – people wait for hours to withdraw cash but most ATMs are empty.
• Nanotech Agrees to be Acquired by Meta Materials Inc. & Announces Third Quarter Fiscal 2021 Results
• Nigeria – homemade ATM
• South Korea – counterfeits
• UK – cash is still king
• UK – Pagan Roman emperor coin found in Norfolk field ‘deliberately damaged
• UK – Rare Queen Victoria gold coin from 1839 that shows the monarch leading a lion is set to sell at auction for £600,000
• US – coin shortage redux, banks searching for pennies
• US – FRB KC – public can take steps to improve coin circulation
• US – facts about the currency
• US government seeks new anti-counterfeiting features
• US – the history of the penny
• Venezuelans desperately ditching bolivars as inflation bites
• Venezuela slashes 6 zeroes from its inflation-battered currency to make it easier to use amid the country’s worst economic crisis in its modern history
• What you should know about original bank-wrapped (OBW) coin rolls
• World’s oldest known coin mint unearthed in China – The foundry produced coins shaped like garden spades, & they’re among the earliest examples of metal currency ever found.

August 1 – 3, 2021

• Australia – What happens when you try to photocopy money
• Can anyone be infected with Covid 19 from a banknote?
• Consumers are Interested in these ATM characteristics when choosing a new bank
• Egypt – new banknote
• Egypt – plastic substrate
• Europe – “Can I Pay In Cash?” CJEU Delivers A Judgement On The Right To Pay In Cash
• India – ATM networks will have to be reinvented to face the onslaught of technology
• India – new ATM rules come into effect on August 1
• India – toward cashless
• Interactive teller machines give fis new tool in high tech, high touch service model
• Jordan – banking & ATM network
• Malta – banknote history
• Mexico – counterfeits
• New Zealand – Future of Cash – RBNZ announces a series of consultations & research reports on the future of cash
• Pakistan – counterfeits
• Saudi Arabia – counterfeits
• South Africa – it will take 2 months to replace looted ATMs
• South Africa – 2 KZN men sentenced to 20 years each for series of ATM robberies
• Toward cashless
• UK – £28bn in old coins & bank notes still to be cashed in – here’s how to make yours spendable again
• UK – Anglo-Saxon coin found in Wiltshire could sell for £200k
• UK – counterfeit L2 coins.
• US – Meet the Artists & Sculptors Behind the 2021 American Eagle Coin Redesigns
• US – Three Men Admit to Stealing from ATMs & Gas Pumps, Staging a Fake Car Accident in Nationwide Fraud, Money Laundering Scheme
• West Africa – ready for a single currency?
• What is money made of?
• What national coin shortage? Here’s the scoop on your quarters, dimes & nickels – With coins in short supply, should you be hoarding them or emptying your cup holder to spend them

July 26 – 31, 2021

• Bosnia & Herzegovina – banknote history
• Canada – why cash survived the Covid-19 epidemic
• Coin Hoard Linked to “Sudden Attack” on Ancient City of Phanagoria
• Coins, the overlooked key to history
• Crypto ATMs worldwide at 24,000
• DeLaRue – turnaround plan
• Early Frictions in the Transition towards Cashless Payments
• Greece – Ink foils attempted ATM robbery
• History of money in America
• India – black money scam.
• India – counterfeits
• Inside the black box: tools for understanding cash circulation
• Mali – banknote history
• Mauritius – banknote history
• Nigeria – banknote history
• Oman – counterfeits
• Oman – toward cashless
• PCGS Encapsulates Legendary 1933 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle
• Peru – Peruri-printed Peruvian banknotes, gateway to plethora of cooperation
• Quantum cash & the end of counterfeiting
• Serbia fumes over Croatia’s plan to put Tesla on euro coins
• South Africa – banks count cost of replacing ATMs looted during unrest
• South Africa – Rioters looted as much as R20 million in cash from ATMs
• Spain – counterfeit notes valued at E4 million discovered in an abandoned Mercedes on the Costa Blanca
• Sri Lanka – counterfeits
• Tajikistan – new banknotes
• The Data Around Consumer Interest in New ATM Transaction Types
• UAE – toward cashless
• UK – Rural vacuum for getting hold of cash
• US – BEP seeks machine-readable counterfeit detection
• US – BEP RFI
• US – the racketeer nickel.
• US/Missouri – Historic Washington bank bill sells for thousands at auction
• Venezuelan artist uses bank notes as a canvas for his work

July 19 – 25, 2021

• Are cash payments dying out?
• Are plastic banknotes cleaner than paper banknotes?
• ATMs – new standard, XFS version 4, aka XFS4IoT
• ATM pooling: How banks are reducing the cost of cash services
• Can cash usage encourage healthier food consumption?
• Cash will soon be obsolete, will the US be ready?
• Central banks fight hyperinflation with bank note releases
• Federal Reserve’s dollar coin stores good for 21 years
• How the digitalization of payments sets the scene for a cashless society
• How the myth of clean card payments created a cash crisis
• India – ATM cash withdrawal charge, debit card, & credit card charges to increase soon
• India – cash vs digital payments
• India – on the fees for ATM cash withdrawals
• India – toward cashless.
• Luxembourg – Protection of the euro against counterfeiting: new requirements applicable to relevant institutions
• Malaysia – toward cashless
• Mauritania – banknote history
• Nigeria – cashless policy at risk as cybercrime persists
• Nigeria – counterfeiters arrested
• Philippines – BSP putting braille on money
• Saudi Arabia – cashless payments
• South Africa – banks count the cost of a 6-day war
• South African Central Bank Warns Citizens Against Accepting Tainted Banknotes
• Spectra Systems technology cleans COVID-19 from banknotes, study shows
• UK’s cash infrastructure & consumer research
• UK – Royal Mint coin production in 2020
• US – counterfeit $1s
• US – is there really a coin shortage?
• US Mint coin production in IH 2021
• US/Nevada – cake ATM.
• Venezuela – US $1 is worth more than 4 million bolivars
• What’s driving DeLaRue’s fast-growing authentication business?
• Why cashless transactions could be king moving forward

July 16 – 19, 2021

• Cash logistics market 2021-2025: post-pandemic industry planning structure – Technavio
• France – Banque de France signs agreement for note manufacturing technology
• How can parents help their kids understand the value of money in a cashless society?
• How ‘In God We Trust’ bills are helping advance a Christian nationalist agenda – ‘In God We Trust’ became the national motto of the US on July 30, 1956. Since then, it has been used to forward a conservative Christian agenda.
• India – banknotes & the blind
• India – banks get until March 2022 to implement locked cassette swap system for ATMs
• India – contactless vs cash
• India – counterfeits
• India – grain ATM
• Ireland – counterfeits
• Macedonia – banknote history
• Malaysia – one ATM for every 20,000 households is not enough
• Malaysia – banknote history
• Palestine – Freedom of Zion coins dating to famous Jewish revolt found in the West Bank
• Royal Canadian Mint $2 circulation coin marks the 100^th anniversary of the discovery of insulin
• South Africa – Cash problems as banks warn of extensive damage to branches & ATMs
• South Africa – Looters damaged thousands of ATMs in Gauteng and KZN – & those unscathed aren’t being refilled
• South Africa – Increase of dye-stained cash following destruction of ATMs
• South Africa – Mint made less money from making money last year, but still made lots of money
• Turkey – new notes
• UK – cashless & protecting the vulnerable
• UK – London rainstorm reveals trove of 300 iron age coins – The “once-in-a-lifetime find” includes 2,000-year-old potins featuring stylized images representing Apollo & a charging bull.
• US – Rep. Payne, Jr. Introduces Payment Choice Act to Protect Cash
• Viking-era coins discovered on Isle of Man
• Why banks must be ready for a ‘less-cash’ (but not cashless) future
• Zimbabwe – worthless ZW$50 note evokes memories of the 2008 era

July 9 – 15, 2021

• Bangladesh – toward cashless
• Bangladesh – counterfeits
• Banking on the future of cash
• Canada – Are you ready for the foonie to join the loonie and toonie?
• Cash or digital? The surprising generational divide
• Civil War $20 Gold Piece Minted by New Orleans Under Siege
• CoinFlip Lists AAVE Token Across Its Network of 2,500 ATMs Nationwide
• Countries with the most crypto ATMs
• Crane Currency invests E2.6m in a water treatment plant in Malta
• Egypt – CBE says all banknote denominations remain valid
• Honduras – new banknote
• India – counterfeits
• India – police bust gang that defrauded banks by tampering with ATMs
• India – RBI & ATM transaction fees
• Indonesia – BI regulates ATM withdrawal limits
• Loomis signs a five-year credit facility of approximately EUR 265 million
• Malawi – banknote history
• Mediterranean Silver Trade Reconstructed – From Trojan War to Roman Republic
• Netherlands – DNB calls for new agreements about cash
• Netherlands – study
• Netherlands – 100 Roman coins were likely an offering for safe passage across river – Many of the coins featured military imagery.
• Philippines – counterfeits in Mindanao
• Poland – medieval French coins unearthed
• Poland – toward cashless
• Portals adds ultra-durable banknote substrate, EverFit, to product portfolio
• Singapore – counterfeits
• Somalia – toward cashless
• South Africa – A tale of paper & gold: the material history of money in South Africa
• Spike in “Chain Gang” Destructive Attacks on ATMs.
• The pandemic pushed us toward a cashless economy. It could be the new normal
• The world’s most cashless countries
• Turkey – Israeli reportedly deported from the country for blowing his nose into a banknote
• UAE eighth in global ranking of most cashless economies
• Ukraine – cash in circulation
• US – Fedeal Reserve is ordering half-dollars for general circulation
• US – history of the Denver Mint
• US – mutilated coin redemption program
• US/New Jersey – dye pack explodes on Newark bank robber
• Using cash helps half of Americans budget their money better
• Venezuela – cutting six zeros from its banknotes
• Who misses paying with cash? I do.
• Why plastic banknotes are stronger.
• Zimbabwe’s new biggest banknote is worth just $0.60
• Zimbabwe’s new high-denomination banknote can’t buy a loaf of bread

July 1 – 8, 2021

• Albania – new banknotes
• Cardtronics/Javelin – 2021 US Health of Cash Study
• Cash Is Alive & Well: Consumers Refuse To Ditch The Dollar
• Casino cash, the world’s filthiest money
• Countries’ Transition to Cashless Society Each Take Unique Paths
• Don’t Ignore ATM Branding Strategy While Focusing on Digital
• Full-Service Remote ATMs Can Eliminate Branches & Costs
• Georgia – new notes
• Guide to ATM pooling
• India – increased counterfeiting of Rs500 notes
• Iran – Ten Banks Operate 78% of ATMs
• Kenya – CBK defends the quality of notes
• Louisenthal/G&D marketing a new customizable security thread
• Madagascar – banknote history
• Maldives – banknote history
• Nanotech wins additional $690,000 development contract purchase orders
• NV9 Spectral Note Validator Range, new from Innovative Technology
• Palestine Currency Board: Its History & Currency
• Russia – on the fate of cancelled currency
• Security researcher sounds alarm over ATM NFC reader vulnerabilities
• UK – Bank of England needs to stop talking about cash in circulation
• UK – towards cashless
• Ukraine – Half of Ukrainians ready to completely abandon use of cash in future

June 25, 2021

• A bumpy road ahead – transformation of payments leading towards cashless societies
• Australia – How far do Australians need to travel to access cash?
• Bangladesh – counterfeits
• Bangladesh – counterfeits 2
• Bitcoin Depot Reports 155% Growth in the Last Year for Cryptocurrency ATM Industry
• Canada – Consumer Cash Withdrawal Behaviour: Branch Networks & Online Financial Innovation.
• China – toward cashless.
• Consumers’ Openness to New Methods of ATM Authentication
• Coronavirus panic fuels a surge in cash demand.
• DeLaRue could be sold as rivals circle Crystal Amber stake
• El Salvador – 1500 cryptocurrency ATMs
• FBI feared Pennsylvania would seize fabled Civil War gold: Affidavit
• Five takes on early US gold coins
• Four reasons the ancient coin market is complicated
• Ghana has infrastructure to fully go cashless – GhIPSS boss.
• Global ATM market to hit $29.3b by 2026
• How Cyber Sleuths Cracked an ATM Shimmer Gang
• India – counterfeit US$100s
• India – postal ATMs
• Japan – new 500 yen coin being minted
• NCR, leader in multi-vendor software, is first to achieve ATMIA Next Gen Level 2 API Certification
• NFC flaws let researchers hack ATMs by waving a phone – Flaws in card reader technology let a security firm consultant wreak havoc with POS systems.
• Nigeria – financial inclusion
• Senegal – financial inclusion
• Switching from cash to cashless payments during the COVID-19 pandemic & beyond.
• Switzerland – cash is still king
• Tanzania – financial inclusion
• The Lazarus heist: How North Korea almost pulled off a billion-dollar hack
• The lifecycle of a dollar bill
• The world’s most valuable coin
• UK – Age UK warn against a cashless society leaving grandparents feeling excluded
• UK – Fraudster jailed after trying to use piles of fake £20 notes at shops & train stations
• UK – Isaac Newton at the Royal Mint
• UK – The new £50 enters circulation, & the paper £20 & £50 will be withdrawn in 2022.
• UK – New Alan Turing £50 note enters circulation.
• US – 1927 letter changed the faces on future US small-size notes
• US Mint coin production in May 2021
• US/Maryland – Counterfeit money found in sneaker of traveller arriving from Jamaica
• US/Washington – Bitcoin ATMs
• Uzbekistan issues new notes as part of updated series
• When will cash die?

June 20 – 25, 2021

• A Caffeinated Tour of the American Numismatic Society Collection
• Albania – new banknote
• ATM visits for cash vary by age & gender in the US.
• Australia – How Far Do Australians Need to Travel to Access Cash?
• Canada ranked #1 country in the world for ‘filthiest money’
• Chinese banks roll out 3,000 ATMs that can convert digital yuan to cash.
• Croatia – central bank removing some banknotes from circulation
• Europe – Cash still king in times of COVID-19
• From wallet to bank: the life of a dollar bill
• Germany – cash remains very popular
• India – NIA arrests absconding Indian currency racketeer in Karnakata FICN case
• India – SBI changes rules for cash withdrawal from ATM, branch
• Interactive teller machines: banking’s next big thing?
• Ireland – why we lose track of spending in a cashless society
• Luxembourg – banknote history
• Macau – banknote history
• Sand & currency from dozens of countries converge in an endless interchange of culture & economics
• Scotland – New demand for legal rights to cash – as use of contactless in Scotland soars
• UK – cash is not dead, new L50 note will revive demand
• UK – Contactless generation are missing out on the value of saving their pennies
• UK – ‘My wallet never leaves my bedside’: why cashless will soon be king – Douglas Wood, 35, swipes his phone & goes – as do most people his age & younger.
• UK – Rare Edward III 23-carat gold coins lost after the Black Death are found by metal detectorist in Norfolk town
• UK – toward cashless
• Why Banks Must Be Ready for a ‘Less-Cash’ (But Not Cashless) Future

June 15 – 20, 2021

• Bangladesh – Amount of cash outside banking system drops to Tk 1,84,216.3cr
• Brinks on US cash usage
• DeLaRue – What’s driving its fast-growing authentication business?
• FinTech: Cashless societies & post-pandemic growth
• Hoard of Medieval Silver Coins Unearthed in Poland
• India – ATM penetration to rise as RBI permits higher interchange fee
• India – ATM robbery gangs
• India – counterfeits
• India – Karnataka cops fear deluge of counterfeit currency once unlocking begins
• Indonesia – counterfeit smuggler in Borneo loses court appeal
• Japan – new 500 yen coin
• Japan – Panel concludes Mizuho’s poor system operation caused ATM failures
• Lebanon – banknote history
• Netherlands – DNB – confidence in cash remains high, even with declining use
• Netherlands – DNB – confidence in cash remains high, even with declining use, infographic
• New BEP facility in Maryland closer to reality
• Southeast Asia – who leads in digital payments adoption & cashless payments
• Trinidad-Tobago – polymer notes
• UAE – I haven’t seen or used cash in more than a year – & I don’t miss it
• UK – Clean Note Policy: A Complete Guide To The Recirculation Of Banknotes
• UK – the unusual trial coins go through before ending up in your pocket
• UK – Woman transforms dull kitchen into masterpiece for just £75 with 1p coins
• US Government’s Failed Attempt to Forge Unity Through Currency – In the late 1890s, the Bureau of Printing & Engraving tried to bridge the divide between silver & gold with a series of educational paper certificates
• US – Flip a coin: heads, the penny stays in circulation; tails, it doesn’t
• US/Massachusetts – 15 Alleged Gang Members & Associates Charged with Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering & Counterfeiting Offenses
• Vietnam – toward cashless.

June 10 – 15, 2021

• Armenia – toward cashless
• Asia – cashless gaming
• Australia – ATM usage resumes its steady decline
• Authentication – Using magnetic microparticles to mark objects unambiguously & tackle counterfeiting
• Authentication – A Single Magnetic Particle with Nearly Unlimited Encoding Options
• Canadian Attitudes Toward ATM Surcharges by Household Income
• Concerns over more stores going cashless causes barrier and equity issues
• Contactless cards do not (yet) reduce cash demand.
• G&D – Embracing digitalized service in the currency industry
• India – ATM interchange fees
• India – RBI asks banks not to destroy CCTV recordings of the demonitisation period
• Japan’s MUFG reports ATM troubles because of system glitch
• KAL Is Publishing Free, Open Source XFS SP Framework For ATMs
• Latvia – banknote history
• Malaysia – toward cashless
• Myanmar’s post-coup cash crunch creates a shadow money trade
• Nigeria – 36% of Nigerian Adults Are Financially Excluded — Digital Financial Services Bolsters Inclusion.
• Nigeria – financial inclusion
• Philippines – BSP weighs options for printing complex
• Qatar – Got old banknotes? Here’s how to exchange them before July 1
• Russia – cash vs digital currency
• Singapore – Issuing of banknotes, ATM withdrawals & cheque clearance fall amid rise in e-payments
• Sweden leads way to a cashless future – The race is on to embrace digital payments, but is the UK ready?
• UK – OneBanks uses G4S for cash and invoice payment services at shared branch kiosks
• US Double Eagle gold coin sold for record $18.9m
• US Treasury/BEP – environmental impact statement for new currency production facility
• US – Put Tubman on the $20 but update the image
• Vietnam – toward cashless
• What mom & daughter did with 80,000 penny child support payment

June 1 – 9, 2021

• Are we entering the polymer age?
• ATMIA Certifies World’s First Next Gen ATM Product
• Banks’ own private currencies in 19th-century America – Before the Civil War local banks issued their own money. It was totally legit, too.
• Boss of ATM skimming syndicate arrested in Mexico
• Ghana – toward cashless
• Have contactless cards affected the use of cash?
• Hong Kong banknote history
• Hybrid ‘cryptonotes’ could become bridge to digital accounts
• India – ATM hacking
• India – ATM security, review existing measures to check frauds
• India – counterfeits
• India – Four arrested for possessing raw material to make fake notes; Rs 4.52 crore seized
• India – SBI, new cash withdrawal rules
• Ireland – toward cashless
• Lebanon – ‘Frozen Dollars’ Are Being Traded In The Lebanese Market Even Through Some Banks
• Libya – banknote history
• Mercator – webinar – before cash disappears, winning the account takeover battle, 6/8/2021
• Myanmar – cash shortage
• Philippines – toward cashless
• Scotland – Why a ‘Goldilocks’ currency will be the ideal in an independent Scotland
• South Africa – how to spot fake R200s
• Spain – cashless payments
• UK – Cash to be used for just 7% of UK shop payments by 2024
• UK – LINK – monthly statistical report, May 2021
• UK – Rare 120-year-old Leyburn Bank fiver sells for nearly £2,000
• US – Harriet Tubman & the $20
• US Sends Bitcoin ATM Operator to Prison for Illegal Operation — 17 Machines Seized
• What is a Bitcoin ATM?
• World Bank finds contactless cards are not yet displacing cash

May 26 – 31, 2021

• ATM service tech arrested in thefts of $192,000 from Bay Area credit union machines
• ATM Security Association Launches World’s First Crisis & Crime Management Intelligence System for the ATM Industry.
• Bangladesh – Banks fast embracing cash recycling machines
• Cambodia – toward cashless
• Canada – toward cashless
• Canada – An Exploration of First Nations Reserves & Access to Cash
• Canadians’ preferred check deposit method varies by age
• Cryptocurrency & ATMs
• Currency experts say cryptonotes are in our future
• DeLaRue bags Bank of England contracts for new notes
• Deloitte receives $115m task order to support BEP Currency Printing Agency Info System
• Digital wallets & cashless payments
• Dirty money
• France – The Franc: A Coin, a Currency, an Orphan
• How hackers are using Raspberry Pi to hack ATMs
• How our increasingly cashless economy disadvantages low-income Americans
• India – counterfeits stats
• India – Notes In Circulation Go Up On Account Of Precautionary Holding Of Cash Amid Pandemic
• India – SBI rules for cash withdrawals from ATMs
• India – 27% of Rs 2,000 notes pulled back from circulation; printing stopped
• Ireland – ATM withdrawals drop 44%, as cash payments fall
• Ireland – Contactless payments continue to soar as cash is shunned.
• Japan – cashless payments
• Mexico – counterfeits in the Yucatan
• The need to reinvent ATMs in the digital storm
• UK – £5 banknote presented to Harold Macmillan sells for £22,000
• UK – Cash is dying. Do we really need to fight to save it?
• US Mint coin production, April 2021
• US – The Bogus “Super Dollars” That Fooled the World for Two Decades
• US – The Infamous 1933 Double Eagle
• Venezuela – Protest against merchants’ refusal to accept devalued banknotes

May 22 – 25, 2021

• ATMIA: Texas ATM human trafficking bill ‘based on false premise’
• Banks turn to ATM pooling strategies
• Canada – counterfeit US$100s in Ontario
• Finest Known 1776 Continental Dollar Offered at Heritage Long Beach Auction
• France – Network of fake euro banknote traffickers discovered by French police
• G+D: New thread technology boosts security for banknotes
• How U.S. Government Paper Currency Began, and How Private Banknotes Ended
• India – counterfeits
• India – counterfeits 2
• India – Covid-19 brings about behavioral change in cash usage
• India – from cash transactions to ATM withdrawals, bank service charges you should know
• Ireland – Gardaí seize nearly €100,000 in counterfeit currency after searches in three counties
• Many businesses may keep the cash-free model they started in the pandemic.
• Nanotech Announces $635,000 Banknote LumaChrome Film Order
• New Zealand – counterfeits
• Nigeria – Customs nab Turkey-bound passenger with 54 ATM cards in Kano airport
• Rare English coin found after almost 400 years at early Maryland settlement
• Scotland – counterfeits
• Scotland – polymer note
• Sweden – Riksbank to sell printing machines in closed auction
• The most cashless economies
• UK – Which? – Cash Summit: Securing our Freedom to Pay
• Which bank notes carry the most dangerous bacteria

May 16 – 22, 2021

• Australia – former MP broke copyright law by printing novelty $1 mllion notes
• Belgians shy away from cash payments
• Currencies of the world
• Djibouti – women money changers, counterfeiters & the street economy
• Federal Reserve limits coin orders as Mint works to meet the demand
• India – ATMs in Kashmir without cash, force customers to branches
• India – Covid brings behavioral changes to cash usage
• India – This book charts a history of India through the stories of its paper currencies over the centuries
• Liberia – banknote history
• Mastercard’s Ajay Banga on Promoting Financial Inclusion
• Paying With Cash? Retailers Must Take Your Dollars in These States
• Philippines – bank accounts & financial inclusion
• The idea of ??a hybrid banknote that bridges cash & crypto assets
• The importance of diversity when selecting banknote icons
• UAE currency: the power of Dh10 – a banknote that celebrates Emirati culture
• UK – Anglo-Saxon coin collector’s unparalleled treasure trove of 576 items sells for £856,000 – including world-record £40,800 for 7th-century King Eadbald gold shilling
• UK – Banking industry commits to supporting customers who depend on cash.
• UK – Convincing counterfeit £10 banknotes found in Somerset with one flaw
• UK – Santander down in Scotland as customers unable to use ATMs & online banking
• US – BEP – Officials Say Money Printing Facility Could Move to Prince George’s
• US Mint proposes rules for mutilated coin submissions
• US/Arizona – As more venues go cashless after the pandemic, ASU experts see downsides.
• US/Michigan – $587K ‘skimming’ scheme at ATMs leads to prison
• What’s the carbon footprint of fiat money?

May 10 – 15, 2021

• Amid shift to cashless transaction, data show Southeast Asia consumers still prefer to keep financial info private
• Argentina’s cashless king targets Latin America’s unbanked millions
• ATM security without compromise
• Australia – CSIRO laboratory radicals go cashless
• Austrians are particularly fond of cash
• Bahamas – counterfeits
• Bangladesh – fresh currency notes in high demand ahead of Eid
• China’s banks unveil ATM for foreigners to use digital yuan.
• Denmark’s first ever banknote sold for 170,000 kroner
• Guatemala – cashless mass transit
• India – Currency in circulation hits Rs 29 lakh crore on 2nd wave
• Ireland – Strike brings cashless tipping tech to Dublin taxis
• Kazakhstan – banknote history
• Kenya – counterfeits
• New Zealand – Households & businesses hoard $600 million of cash over Covid fears
• Saudi 200-riyal note celebrates Vision 2030 program
• Swiss National Bank recalls eighth series of banknotes
• The Changing Iconography of Byzantine Gold Coins
• UK – ATM use up 18% as lockdown restrictions ease
• US/Nebraska – ATM stuffed with marijuana
• What happened to Confederate money after the Civil War?
• What is a Bitcoin ATM & should you use one?

May 1 – 9, 2021

• Australia – Making or Using Counterfeit Money Offences & Defences in NSW
• Belgium – ATMs in rail stations
• Brazilian gang blows up entire grocery store while trying to steal its two ATMs
• Canada – Royal Canadian Mint, profits & performance 2020
• Caribbean – The time has come to permanently retire all our Caribbean currencies
• Cash going digital.
• Cash vs the QR code
• Data focused approach to ATM security
• Europe’s first common money was bronze
• Europe – A small change revolution. Weight systems & the emergence of the first Pan-European money
• India – 2 Nigerians held in card cloning/ATM fraud
• Japan – banknote history
• Kuwait – banknote history
• More states pushing to make gold & silver legal tender – former US Mint director.
• Nigeria – ATM transactions decline by N67bn in Q4’20
• Nigeria stopping the rejection of old or torn USD notes underlines why crypto is a better reserve currency
• Philippines – BSP wants banks to circulate the P200 note
• Philippines – commemorative P5000 note
• Philippines – toward cashless
• Push for banknotes to reflect gender equality
• Roman coinage from Republic to Empire
• Singapore – Crunchtime for Cash at Singapore’s Famed Hawker Food Stalls
• Three steps to upgrade a smart safe in retail.
• US Mint coin production IQ 2021
• US/Texas – on the regulation of white-label ATMs & human trafficking

April 26 – 30, 2021

• Ancient Roman coins
• Banknote Art Concept
• Canada – counterfeit warning in BC
• Cyprus – counterfeits
• Digital payments & the cashless society
• Ethiopia – polymer vs paper notes
• IACA webinar on Environmental Sustainability in the Banknote Community
• India – counterfeiter arrests
• Jordan – banknote history
• Kenya – banknote history
• Malaysia – toward cashless
• Portugal – Rare Scam Note From the Portuguese Banknote Crisis Is a Collector’s Item Today
• Russia plans note upgrades, 2022-2025
• Russia – police find counterfeits being used to buy cryptocurrency
• Saudi Arabia – new banknote
• UK – fake L20s.
• UK – Bank of England reviews operational footprint in light of Covid & waning demand for cash
• UK – Devastating warning to Ministers on the financial asset millions can’t do without: It’s crunch time for cash…Protect it by law – or it could be history in months
• UK – new legislation would allow cash-back without purchase
• Use of hologram in security feature for currency gains trade award
• US – One of the First Dollar Coins Struck at the U.S. Mint Sells for $840,000 – The 1794 copper coin served as a prototype for the famed “Flowing Hair” silver dollar
• US – Which Trailblazing Women Should Be Featured on Quarters? The US Mint Wants Your Suggestions
• US/Pennsylvania – Hungarian pleads guilty in ATM skimming case

April 16 – 25, 2021

• Africa – toward cashless
• As We Move Toward a Cashless Society, These Are the Risks You Need To Know About
• Brinks expands use of Gresham Technologies’ Clareti platform
• Canada – The Flying Bandit & the biggest gold heist in Canadian history
• Croatia – ATMs for small business
• ECCB – polymer substrate note
• Europe – ATM attacks
• Global Currency Forum – webcast – a world without cash, 4.20.2021
• How can banks use ATMs to their advantage?
• How slowing down the cashless frenzy could ensure a more inclusive society in East Asia
• India – ATM frauds across the country
• India – banknote trivia
• Indonesia – circulation of counterfeit banknotes declining due to digitization
• Iraq – banknote history
• Ireland – counterfeit British & Irish notes
• Jamaica – banknote history
• Malaysia – Bank Negara announces conditions for currency processing business
• Mexico – banknote of the year
• Netherlands – Dutch ATM robbers crossing into Germany
• Nigeria – financial inclusion
• Pakistan – Bitcoin ATMs
• Russia – where do damaged banknotes end up?
• Scotland – Bank of Scotland unveils design for £50 polymer note
• Spectra Systems inks enhanced sensor contract with central bank customer
• Swiss Mint Receives Two Numismatic Guinness World Records
• UK – Boy shocked as money pours out of ATM he is fiddling with
• UK – cash will disappear
• UK cities embracing cashless spending in response to COVID-19
• UK – how to save your banknotes when they become damaged
• UK – post office – cash deposits & withdrawals return to pre-lockdown levels
• UK – shoppers ditch cash over Covid fears
• US – A “Long-Lost” Lord St. Oswald 1794 Half Cent Reappears
• US – The new $20: A chance for accessible currency for the visually impaired
• US/Tennessee – woman tries to use a $1 million note at a dollar store
• US/Tennessee – Women banned from Dollar General after trying to use $1m bank note to pay for stuff
• When Isaac Newton was Master of the Royal Mint.

April 8 – 15, 2021

• Australia – is moving to cashless a good thing?
• Bangladesh Bank raises limits for cash withdrawal from ATMs in virus lockdown
• Bangladesh – new banknote
• Banknote embroidery as political art – in pictures
• Banknote Security – Don’t Take the Risk! Embedded Security Features are the Benchmark for the Overwhelming Majority of Banknotes
• Bitcoin banknote project appoints designer of Swiss franc & former US mint director to board
• Botswana – new note
• Brink’s acquires largest privately owned provider of ATM services in the US.
• Canada – counterfeits
• Cash handling to grow by 2024
• Cayman Islands – counterfeits
• China-led digital payment revolution is making bills, coins & some currencies obsolete
• China – Preference for contactless payments tanks China’s ATM usage
• Coinstar helps Georgia man get cash for 91,000 pennies
• Comparing Different Coin Sorting & Counting Machines
• DeLaRue repays COVID furlough cash
• DeLaRue expects annual operating profit at top of market consensus
• Extinction of banknotes?
• Financial services associations warn elected officials of COVID-related business practice disenfranchising 50 million Americans.
• Ghana – banknote history
• Greece – banknote history
• Haiti – banknote history
• Hungary – banknote history
• Iceland – banknote history
• India – counterfeits
• India – counterfeit seizure
• India – how will users withdraw funds with mobile wallets at ATMs
• Malta – counterfeits
• Nanotech launches FlavourOptik TASTE security thread for currency protection
• Nanotech Wins $690,000 Purchase Order
• Nepal – toward cashless
• Offences Involving ATMs Study– How criminals see ATMs as targets – insight directly from them & more!
• Philippines – new fees will push banks to install more ATMs in the provinces
• Philippines – toward cashless
• Public & Private in Coin Production
• Restoring Islamic Coins to Reveal the Past – The Louvre Abu Dhabi is working on what it has named the Hoard of Jazira, more than 2,800 pieces of the region’s history.
• Singapore – cash is still king.
• Smithsonian Portraits podcast – 5/7/2021 – portraits on the money
• Spectra Systems secures US patent for banknote disinfection process
• UK – ATM visits could rise as the country’s economy opens up after Covid.
• UK – Cashless society: Tamworth is one of the UK towns to lose a high number of ATMs during COVID-19
• UK – Fears of a cashless society: ‘I don’t think anyone is thinking how this might affect elderly people like me’
• UK finder’s ‘error’ may be worthless altered note
• UK – Medieval gold coin hoards & skull ring discovered in Wales
• US – ATM skimming scheme targeted banks nationwide
• US money trivia
• US – 1907 Ultra High Relief Double Eagle Graded by PCGS Sells for $4.1 Million
• US/Illinois – $1.64 million in counterfeit currency seized by Customs this year at O’Hare
• Vietnam – cashless payments
• Vietnam – a young man with a passion for collecting old currency.

April 1 – 7, 2021

• AmericanBanker – webcast – ATM Branding – Creating a powerful & functional brand engagement that drives growth, 4/6/2021
• Are Your Cash Handling Guidelines & Procedures Damaging the Customer Experience?
• ATM anxiety: Most people don’t know how much money they have, fear checking their balance
• Bangladesh – counterfeits
• G&D halts supply of Myanmar banknote components
• India – NCR Corp launches first interoperable cardless cash withdrawal-enabled ATMs
• Japan – e-commerce is disrupting the love of cash.
• Lebanon Debuts Revolutionary Security Feature On New 100,000 Livres Banknote
• Liberia: Abraham Darius Dillon Describes Resolution Seeking to Print New Liberian Banknotes in The Wake of Bountiful Unresolved Issues
• Nepal – ATM hacking
• New Zealand – counterfeits
• Ten coins I’d love to own
• UK – Bank of England – banknote checking scheme
• UK – Medieval gold coins & rings officially declared as treasure
• UK – toward cashless
• US – Antebellum paper money
• US/Rhode Island – Ancient coins may solve mystery of murderous 1600s pirate

March 26 – 31, 2021

• A cashless world is in plain sight.
• A slim wallet is how I learned to ditch cash – A lowly Ziploc bag was the first step. Maybe digital driver’s licenses will mean I’ll have no wallet at all someday.
• After a year of COVID-19, data from Square show cashless business share more than doubles
• ATM Fees and Management Costs Drive Government Prepaid Card Costs
• Australia – 1 in 4 businesses now cashless
• Cashless systems have a cost
• Cayman Islands – counterfeits
• Diebold Nixdorf Recognized by RBR as the Global Leader in Total Application & Monitoring Software for the ATM Industry
• Digital currency vs paper currency.
• Dominica & Grenada – polymer substrate notes
• Future of ATMs in banking
• Gender inequality on the world’s currencies
• Guatemala – banknote history
• Guyana – banknote history
• India – counterfeits in Mumbai
• India – how money evolved
• India – The Return of Cash with the Declining Effect of Crisis: Rise & Fall of Digital Payments in India post Demonetization
• Ireland – ATM card skimming
• Kuwait – CBK advises the public on the proper handling of banknotes
• Loomis acquires SecurePost, the cash handling business of the Swiss Post Group
• Nepal – counterfeits
• Philippines – 8 arrested for fake US dollars
• Saudi Arabia: Gang busted with US$500,000 in counterfeit bills
• Spain – 37 arrests in a hit on counterfeiters of high quality €500 fake banknotes
• UK – BofE unveils new £50 note
• UK – Bank of England’s Textured Bills Help Blind People Tell Them Apart
• UK – Cash usage falls by over 50% but will remain stable until 2030.
• UK – Cash usage falls by over 50% but will remain stable until 2030, report.
• UK – Closer to a cashless society? Lincoln city centre sees big drop in the number of cashpoints since lockdown
• UK conversion to polymer substrate
• UK – Metal detectorists charged after discovering 1,000 Iron Age gold coins
• UK public isn’t giving up cash just yet.
• UK – Rare Edward VIII £5 coin sells for record-breaking £1.65million at auction
• UK – toward cashless
• US – Historic 1822 Half Eagle Sold for $8.4 Million Sets New Auction Record
• US – Mint coin production, February 2021
• US – putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 may take years, here’s why
• US – Massachusetts paper money of 1690, first banknotes in the British North American colonies
• US/California – $100k in counterfeits at LAX

March 19 – 25, 2021

• ATMIA – webinar – Next Gen ATM Certification Journey, 3/24/2021
• ATMIA Launches Cash Hub to Highlight the Importance of Cash
• Australia – cash demand during Covid 19
• Australia – Cashless Debit Card extended to Northern Territory
• Australia – RBA opened a contingency banknote site during the pandemic ($)
• Bulgaria, US Secret Service in counterfeit money raid
• Cash is most dominant in Romania, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria & Ukraine
• Currency initiative: The ECB & US Federal Reserve’s CDI2 standards ($)
• Currency manager – National Bank of Ukraine ($)
• Currency services – Crane Currency ($)
• India – ATMs go dry on second day due to bank workers strike
• Iran – new banknote
• Liberia – new banknotes
• Our Favorite Payment Type for P2P Transactions; Cash
• Post offices & financial inclusion
• Rare Chinese note highlights April 5 Hong Kong auction
• Seigniorage through Periodic Recoinage: When the Validity of Money Was Restricted in Time
• Singapore – Face verification can better secure ATM transactions, although new risks may emerge
• Spain – ¼ of people would not miss paper money
• Spectra Systems annual profit rises on solid revenue growth
• Sweden – Risk of Cash Crunch Leads Sweden to Expand Handling of Banknotes
• The battle of overt features
• The paradox of banknotes: understanding the demand for cash beyond transactional use.
• UK – Cashless future for London Underground? Mayor refuses to rule out contactless future
• UK – how Covid changed UK’s relationship with cash
• UK – Identifying banknote fingerprints can stop counterfeits on streets.
• UK – Anti-Counterfeiting for Polymer Banknotes Based on Polymer Substrate Fingerprinting
• UK – make cash machines free & unleash L6 billion in high street spending
• UK – Over 340 ATM’s closed every month in Britain amid COVID-19 pandemic
• UK – rare ‘faceless’ £10 note withdrawn from cash machine could net pensioner a fortune
• US – evolution of the dollar bill
• US institutions face money laundering risks with cash payments
• US/Massachusetts – Bulgarian national pleads guilty to ATM skimming
• Why cash payments are not always the best way to help poor people
• Will cash be king in a post pandemic world?
• Yellen provides signature for paper currency

March 14 – 19, 2021

• After one year of Covid-19, new Square data reveals the share of cashless businesses has more than doubled.
• Australia – counterfeits
• Australia – counterfeits smuggled in from China
• Banks show increasing interest in pooling and sharing ATMs
• BigCast Network – podcast – cash has a future.
• Canada /BC – counterfeit bust
• Cashless cash: financial inclusion or surveillance humanitarianism?
• DeLaRue pack demonstrates security techniques in series
• Does animation help authentication?
• Egypt – Central Bank to issue new polymer banknotes by mid-year
• Finland – Otto cash machines to offer €10 notes amid decline in ATM use – The ATMs have only offered €20 & €50 notes since Finland introduced the euro nearly two decades ago.
• Ghana – Islamic microfinance & financial inclusion
• India – NCR enables interoperable UPI at ATMs
• India – Rs2000 notes not printed in the last 2 years
• India – the mystery of the vanishing Rs2000 notes
• Jamaica – Mastercard & financial inclusion
• Malaysia – cost pressures drive banks to consider sharing ATMs
• Philippines – on ATM transaction fees
• Philippines – BSP – satellite broadband & financial inclusion
• Polymer vs paper, an update
• Rwanda – new ATMs
• Scientists develop new magnetic nanomaterial for counterfeit money prevention
• Scientists develop new magnetic nanomaterial for counterfeit money prevention, the paper
• Six facts about money that will leave your head spinning
• Sri Lanka – counterfeit ring busted
• Swedish Viking hoard: how the discovery of single Norman coin expands our knowledge of French history
• Thailand – How the USA lost bid to print Siamese 1 Tical/Baht banknote
• Uganda – toward cashless
• UK – 7 rarest old coins including London Mint sovereign that could be worth up to £25,000
• UK – British start-up working to secure ‘coinless’ future for cash
• UK – Shrap – Alternatives to sleepwalking (or stampeding) into a cashless society, paper
• UK – Withdrawals at ATMs nearly halved in 2020 but cash is still the key method of payment for millions
• US – Bitcoin ATMs at gas stations
• US – finest known O-104 1825 Half Dollar in Stack’s Bowers March Las Vegas Auction
• US – He owns world famous stamps & a prized coin. now he’s selling.
• US – Only legal 1933 Saint-Gaudens gold $20 double eagle in June auction
• US/Oregon – Romanian skimmers sentenced to jail
• US/Texas – man who schemed in debit card/ATM thefts, Gregory Jean-Louis sentenced to 20 years
• What can the faces on its currency tell us about a country?

March 7 – 13, 2021

• Australia – disappearing cash
• Australia – the profit to be had from 50c coins (1969)
• Australia – ‘Instant money’: ATM comes to Australia (1969)
• Baii – arrests in US counterfeit case
• Banknote expert Larry Felix & cryptocurrency pioneer Peter Vessenes partner to create bitcoin banknotes
• Canada – counterfeit warning in NW Saskatchewan
• Changes in Portraiture on Ancient Roman Coinage
• Don’t Buy Prop Money Until You’ve Read This!
• EAST Publishes Fraud Update 1-2021
• Ethiopia gives 12 extra days to change old banknotes in restive Tigray region
• Honduras – 5 Lempira banknote
• India – ?50, ?500 notes now cheaper to print; ?10, ?20, ?100 pricier
• India – 18^th century gold coins worth ?1.30 crore seized by police
• India – Bangladeshi gangs robbing ATMs in Delhi
• India – banks start closing down offsite ATMs, prefer onsite services
• India – counterfeits
• India – on women & financial inclusion
• India tops the list of countries that are for cashless economy – 79% Indians in favour
• Iran – CBI unveils new 50,000-Rial banknote
• Namibia’s N$30 commemorative banknote nominated for Banknote of the Year Award
• Nanotech launches LiveOptik PROTECT Security Foil for Brand Protection
• Nepal – Govt minting Rs 2 coins at the cost of Rs 2.52
• Nigeria – digital wallets & financial inclusion
• Philippines – 7/11 rolls out cash recycling ATMs
• Philippines – BSP on financial inclusion
• Philippines – toward cashless
• Pros & cons of an increasingly cashless society
• Rethinking ATM infrastructure
• Singapore – toward cashless
• South Korea – mobile wallets & cashless payments
• Sri Lanka – central bank & financial inclusion
• Sri Lanka – New Rs. 20 coin to replace Rs.20 note
• UK – British people aren’t ready for a cashless society
• UK – Calls for more women to appear on banknotes
• UK – Exceptionally rare £5 gold coin made for Edward VIII’s short-lived reign is tipped to sell for over £1 million
• Ukraine – toward cashless
• US – only 2 in 10 Americans favor a cashless society
• US/Pennsylvania – treasure hunters seek answers from FBI regarding fabled Civil War-era gold – Newly-released documents confirm the feds went digging for gold in Elk County, but they deny finding anything
• Venezuela – hyperinflation pushes Venezuela to print 1,000,000-Bolivar bills
• Venezuela launches 1 million Bolivar banknote worth 50 US cents amid 2,665% inflation rate
• World’s most innovative banknotes, 2021

March 1 – 6, 2021

• Accelerating payments, is cash still relevant
• Australia – Woolworth’s drops controversial cashless experiment
• Canada – Cash & COVID-19: The Effects of Lifting Containment Measures on Cash Demand & Use
• Canada – counterfeits in Owens Sound, Ontario
• Cash & crises: No surprises by the virus
• China wants to take the entire country cashless — and surveil its citizens even more closely
• China – toward cashless
• Coins on graves, why?
• Dear mom, forget the cash – An IMF economist explains central bank digital currency to his mother
• DOGE is now supported at 1,800 ATMs in 45 US states
• Full-service remote ATMs can eliminate branches & costs
• Genmega partner to deliver next generation ATM functionality
• Germany – a unified Deutschemark
• Glory – automating cash processing operations in the branch, infographic
• India – black market for Rs2000 notes
• India – Hitachi adds 1000 white label ATMs in 5 months
• India – on exchanging damaged notes
• Ireland – fake €50 notes
• Ireland – Irish central bank to gain stronger anti-counterfeiting powers ($)
• Israel – BoI conducts nationwide drill of currency system to prepare for an earthquake scenario
• Japan’s Mizuho halts service at card-eating ATMs
• Latin America – ‘Ploutus’ Malware Targets ATMs
• Libya – polymer substrate note
• Metabase Q uncovers new strain of ATM malware in Latin America
• Mexico – MYHSM future proofs RedBlu’s ATM infrastructure
• Somalia – toward cashless?
• Spain – counterfeits
• Spectra Systems sees 3.5x increased demand of banknote authentication orders from central banks
• Ten coins I’d love to own
• The Countries Most Likely to Support a Cashless Society
• UK – only 26% of Brits want a cashless society
• When is an overt feature too big?

February 25 – 28, 2021

• Australia – $28m spent on cashless debit card scheme slammed by Greens senator Rachel Siewert
• Belgium – counterfeit euros
• Cash vs. Cashless: Why Today’s Businesses Don’t Need to Choose
• Disaster resilience through financial inclusion
• Global cash usage down as mobile payments surge
• Philippines – ATM fee hike oppressive
• SICPA Leverages Security Ink Expertise for Brand Protection
• The banknote maintains its rightful position as a means of payment
• Singapore does not aim to be a cashless society
• Tonga – counterfeit currency
• Uganda – 8 arrested with counterfeit US currency & fake gold
• UK – free-to-use ATMs disappearing at an alarming rate
• UK – kids & tooth fairy payments during the pandemic
• US Mint coin production in January 2021

February 22 – 25, 2021

• ATMs reimagined: How financial institutions can benefit from IADs
• Australia – Cashless debit card: review fails to find proof Coalition welfare scheme reduces social harm
• Cash usage has increased amid the pandemic, Brinks CEO says
• Cloud ATMs Improve Access, Manage Costs
• Coins can inspire people to look into the past
• Covid-19: Contactless ATM withdrawals go mainstream
• Fiji – toward cashless
• Gambia – banknote history
• Gambling – toward cashless
• Hackers can now empty out ATMs remotely – what can banks do to stop this?
• How Prop Money Is Used & Made for Films & TV Shows
• How layered security can help prevent $150,000 losses from ATM attacks
• India – damaged notes can be replaced easily
• India – How SBI will benefit from multi-vendor ATM software
• Japan – Thicker wallets? 10,000-yen notes see sharp rise in circulation
• Japan – toward cashless
• Japan – pandemic & cashless payments
• Low value Greek leptons in Roman Judea
• Malaysia – E-payment preference rose during Covid-19 pandemic but cash still king
• Malaysia – Govt plans to make cashless payments the preferred payment option by 2022
• Malaysia – SMEs & cashless
• Mexican politician removed over alleged ties to Romanian ATM skimmer gang
• Pakistan – on the Rs5000 note
• Pakistan – SBP – women & financial inclusion
• Philippines – BSP ensures smooth mix of currency and e-money
• Somalia – counterfeit US$50s
• Spain: Valencia fights depopulation subsidising ATMs
• The pandemic & cash usage
• UK cash payments could be nearly eliminated by 2026
• UK – 5 more years until cash goes extinct?
• UK – ruthless cash machine bombers who shocked the underworld
• Unique challenges facing retailers with high-frequency cash transactions (and how to solve them)
• US – A $5 Gold Coin From 1822 Could Achieve $5 Million at Auction
• US – Critic labels US paper money design as too static, conservative
• US – Despite COVID-19 fears, consumers still carry cash
• US = The State of Cashless Spending & Payments in 2021
• US – Penny Costs 1.76 Cents to Make in 2020, Nickel Costs 7.42 Cents; US Mint Realizes $549.9M in Seigniorage
• US/Ohio – pizza ATM is out of order
• Will cash wither once central banks start supporting digital currencies
• World ATM index, 2020
• Zimbabwe – new note

February 18 – 22, 2021

• A Harriet Tubman $20? That’s Just the Beginning – America once had a wide-open approach to currency. Maybe that’s due for a revival.
• ACI & Auriga Partner to launch next-generation ATM acquiring & self-service banking platform
• BEP Washington facility resumes printing of the $100 Federal Reserve note
• Canada – counterfeit US currency in Halifax
• CashEssentials – Taking Cash Forward, 2021
• Colombia – on the counterfeiting of banknotes
• DeLaRue – note security features
• Fed still holds 21-year surplus of dollar coins
• Full-Service Remote ATMs Can Eliminate Branches & Costs
• Japan – cashless payments
• Libya – new polymer substrate banknote
• Mastercard faces Swiss probe into possible obstruction of national cash scheme
• Philippines – toward cashless
• The world’s ATM capitals
• UK – coin use could drop by 1/5 post-Covid
• UK – the 50^th anniversary of decimal day – 1
• UK – the 50^th anniversary of decimal day – 2
• UK – the 50^th anniversary of decimal day – 3
• US Has a Long History of Redesigning Its Currency. Let’s Revive It.
• US – February 16 1878 – Silver Dollars made legal
• Venezuela – toward cashless?

February 13 – 17, 2021

• ATM hacks surged 269% in Europe in 2020 H1
• Australia – The Simpsons & the dollar
• DeLaRue identifies top five 2021 currency trends
• Dwindling cash use is pushing central banks to race toward digital currencies
• France – banknote history
• Hong Kong banks report decline in customers seeking new notes for ‘lai see’ amid rise of electronic channels, economic uncertainties
• India – RBI warning about fake notes
• Liberia – new banknote
• Mexico – ATM skimming by Romanian gang
• Money evolution
• Philippines – ATM fee policy
• Philippines – Withdrawal fees too high? Adjacent ATM may be cheaper under new BSP scheme
• Philippines – commemorative 500 peso note
• Qatar – ATMs & deposit machines start accepting new notes
• The rise of digital payments cannot mask that cash is still king for millions of people ($)
• UK – ATM trends
• UK – Subpostmasters back bill to stop slide into cashless society
• US/North Dakota – long string of ATM thefts

February 6 – 12, 2021

• As Criminals Innovate, ATM Thefts Becoming a Growing Source of Insurer Loss
• ATMs – 16 facts
• Canada – counterfeit US & Canadian notes in Saskatchewan
• Cash & the Hidden Economy: Laboratory & Artefactual Field Experimental Evidence on Fighting Tax Evasion in Small Business Transactions
• Cashless as the future of payments
• Counterfeiting, the oldest profession
• Denmark’s route to upgraded banknotes with intuitive public authentication
• Dubai – toward cashless
• Euronet – Publication of AMBER Alerts on Euronet Worldwide’s ATMs Leads to Hundreds of Phone Calls and Location of Eight Missing People in 2020
• Europe – euro note counterfeiting at a historical low
• Eye imaging tech can detect fake travel docs ‘in seconds’
• Fifth Third Bank settles ATM fee lawsuit for $5.2 million
• Fiji – banknote history
• France – Un français invente le billet de zéro euro et fait un énorme carton
• India – ATM fraud
• India – SBI changes ATM cash withdrawal rules
• India – water ATMs
• Italy – ancient coins
• Nanotech appoints banknote industry veteran Richard Rowe to board
• Nepal – Indian national arrested with Rs 193,000 fake Nepali notes
• Online event – the future of cash, 2/17-18/2021
• Pakistan – SBP asks banks to deduct Rs2.5 on each ATM transaction
• Saudi Arabia – 4 arrested for dealing in counterfeit currency in Riyadh
• South Africa – A tale of paper & gold: the material history money in South Africa
• South Sudan – new banknote
• Switzerland – Man who spent £10,000 on prostitutes using fake money he printed himself – dubbed ‘so bad a blind man could see it wasn’t real’ – is convicted
• Thailand – counterfeiter arrested
• The Destruction of Banknotes: Who, Why & How?
• Turkey – 651 Roman coins discovered
• UK – 50 years since London Underground switched to decimal currency
• UK – How a dog walker’s find of £5m in forged cash lifted the lid on Britain’s counterfeit economy
• UK – Jailed gang who targeted ATMs stripped of proceeds of crime
• UK – Royal Mint webinar, Henry VII sovereign, 2/11/2021
• UK – Ultra rare Tudor coin from 500 years ago to be auctioned by Royal Mint for £950k
• US – America’s Currency Is as Weirdly Outdated as Its Political Structure ($)
• US/Texas – ATM crime task force report
• US/Texas – counterfeiters arrested with their printing equipment in a motel
• What is cardless ATM access?

February 1 – 6, 2021

• Afghanistan – demands that the printing of new banknotes should be stopped ($)
• ATMIA sets up forum for crypto ATM deployers
• Azerbaijan – central bank of to issue banknotes depicting liberated lands.
• Bahamas – Scotiabank & cashless banking
• Bulgaria – Europol busts cash & passport counterfeiting scheme
• Cambodia – e-wallets, cashless payments, financial inclusion
• Canada – The Bank of Canada has removed legal tender status of its $1, $2, $25, $500, and $1,000 bank notes.
• CoinFlip ATM network exceeds one million transactions in 2020, smashes revenue record with 359% yoy growth
• DeLaRue – Going Beyond Journal, January 2021
• Ecuador – banknote history
• India – counterfeits from Bangladesh
• India – counterfeiter arrested
• India – new security ink for protection bank-cheques against counterfeiting
• Iran – introduces secure 1 million rial note
• Malaysia – size does matter: did you know that the RM600 note is the largest banknote in the world?
• Nanotech acquires new patent portfolio
• Nepal – counterfeits
• Philippines – PayMaya & cashless payments
• Spectra Systems kicks off second phase of central bank project
• UK – coin mintage figures
• US/California – DFPI: Certain bitcoin ATMs/kiosks not subject to MTA licensure
• US/Illinois – $136K in Counterfeit Currency Seized at Chicago International Mail Facility
• US/North Dakota – counterfeits

January 26 – 31, 2021

• Ancient Greek Coins of the Black Sea’s Northern Coast
• Bhutan – cashless payments
• Bulgaria – counterfeit bust
• Canada – counterfeit C$100s in Nova Scotia
• China – financial inclusion & the alleviation of poverty
• DeLaRue upbeat on profit, plans more polymer spending
• Dubai – counterfeits
• Hong Kong – counterfeits
• Iceland – counterfeits
• India – counterfeit bust
• Is the cashless society finally here?
• Is there a link between cashless payments and unhealthy consumption?
• Papua New Guinea – Banknote quality & ATM performance
• Philippines – new notes
• Romania – Europol Seizes almost €450,000 in Counterfeit Bank Notes
• Scotland – Man films himself licking ATM to prove ‘coronavirus isn’t real’
• Scotland sees steepest fall in cash machine withdrawals last year
• Serbia – Ancient Coins Found in Roman Ruins
• Singapore – DBS takes steps to alleviate queues at ATMs, related to new notes
• South Sudan – US counterfeits
• Sri Lanka – toward cashless
• Trinidad/Tobago – polymer substrate notes
• UK – LINK: Consumers still withdrew £1,500 per person in 2020, despite ATM transactions falling by 37%
• UK – Which? sets banks two-week deadline to protect the fragile cash system 10 million people are not ready – or able – to give up using cash
• US – Continental currency, the dream of American independence, and connecting cash to history
• US – the counterfeiter who sunk the Confederacy
• US/New Jersey – Romanian national sentenced to 5 years for ATM skimming
• Why Do Cashless Payments Increase Unhealthy Consumption? The Decision-Risk Inattention Hypothesis

January 23 – 26, 2021

• Armenia – Ardshinbank has introduced contactless ATMs
• Barbados – toward cashless
• China – toward cashless
• Diebold Nixdorf launches DN Series EASY – a self-service platform built to transform the shopping & checkout experience
• Diebold & NCR pursue a future beyond payments technology
• Dominican Republic – banknote history
• Early Money – Archaeological Discovery Shows Ancient European “Standardized Bronze Objects”
• Early Money – The origins of money: Calculation of similarity indexes demonstrates the earliest development of commodity money in prehistoric Central Europe
• East Caribbean – banknote history
• Effective security devices to protect banknote due to counterfeiting cash scam
• Europe – ECB – euro bank counterfeiting in 2020
• Europe – EU banknote history, part 1
• Europe – euro banknote history, part 2
• Finland – counterfeit currency
• France to shut 40% of cash-handling centers
• Hard Times Tokens Were Not One Cent – The counterfeit currencies issued in response to 1837’s coin shortage were worthless—or were they?
• Holograms & banknotes
• India – Demonetization Starts For These Currency Notes From March, 2021: What Should You Do Now?
• India – fake notes racket busted in Delhi
• India – on the fate of old series Rs100 notes
• India – RBI pushes banks to promote use of Rs10 coins
• Iran – ancient coins confiscated from smugglers
• Ireland – toward cashless
• Italy – stolen ancient coins returned after church confession
• Liberia – banknote shortage
• Malaysia – currency quality standards
• Mali – counterfeit note seizure
• Oman – it’s a crime to scribble on banknotes
• Philippines – PayMaya & cashless payments
• South Korea – forged notes on the decline
• Sri Lanka – mobile & digital payments
• Syria – new banknote
• Thailand – 19^th century coins
• Top 3 cash automation solutions for better CBD cash management
• Treasury’s plans for $800M cash production facility in suburban Maryland come into focus
• UK – Co-op & Morrisons urge shoppers use cash as IT woes continue
• UK – Liberal-Democrats on secure & free ATMs
• UK – Oliver Cromwell gold coin (1656) sells for £471k at auction
• UK – the worth of cash
• UK – Three jailed after largest counterfeit cash seizure
• US – 2020 Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting & Piracy
• US – Del Monte banknote goes for £290k
• US – Fake 1844 Seated dime in the marketplace identified by NGC
• US – maybe a new $100 coin for when inflation returns
• US Mint coin production in 2020
• US – rare gold dollar sells for $9 million at auction
• White House recommits to getting Harriet Tubman on $20 bill after Trump delay

January 16 – 23, 2021

• Auction bids are topping $57,000 for a rare $20 banknote with Del Monte sticker on it
• Bangladesh – smart ATMs
• Brazil – fighting counterfeit currency
• Bulgaria – Raiffeisenbank opens its first cashless offices
• Cabo Verde – introduces new note with cotton substrate to replace one on polymer
• Cashless leaves some people behind but it doesn’t have to
• CCL Secure & the Bank of England
• China – 10,000 ancient coins unearthed
• China – pre-1949 banknote history
• Consumer Behavior in a Health Crisis: What Happened with Cash?
• Czech Republic – banknote history
• DeLaRue turnaround
• Dirty Money: Does the Risk of Infectious Disease Lower Demand for Cash?
• Does the banking future begin with ATMs?
• Egypt to issue polymer banknotes in June for 1^st time
• Fed to Remove Caps on Coin Distribution
• Foreign demand for euro banknotes
• Georgia Gold Rush Story: The rise & fall of America’s first private gold-coin mint
• Going cashless for a day
• Hungary – stash of medieval gold coins found on a farm
• Italy – toward cashless
• Maldives – discolored notes are not counterfeit
• Malta – Suspected fraudster charged with €270,000 fake currency scam
• Medieval Tanzania a major player in the Indian ocean trade