Future of Cash

Will AI make cash obsolete? Dive into the future of money as AI reshapes our financial landscape. Discover how technology can boost cash accessibility or accelerate its decline.

The re-election of Donald Trump has strengthened the influence of BigTech, fostering closer ties between tech giants and the U.S. government. As tech companies expand into financial services and cryptocurrencies, concerns about privacy, financial censorship, and dependence on digital infrastructure grow. Cash remains a crucial counterbalance, offering privacy, economic freedom, and resilience during crises.

CashEssentials was honored to hold a seminar on the Future of Cash at the High-Security Printing Conference in Bangkok last week. We asked participants how they imagine the future of cash.

CashEssentials will be hosting a seminar on the Future of Cash at the ATMIA Europe and Emerging Markets Conference in London on 10 October 2024. It will focus on understanding the changing cash environment and what stakeholders are doing to optimise the cash cycle and ensure the future viability and sustainability of cash.

The Deutsche Bundesbank has established the National Cash Forum, gathering representatives of the banking industry, retail trade, consumer protection, the CIT industry, and vending machine operators to preserve cash as an efficient and widely used means of payment in a changing payment landscape.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand will launch and fund trials to test new ways for consumers and merchants to withdraw and deposit cash, including coins, at little or no cost.

The Future of Cash conference in Istanbul saw some big conversations about cash today and its future. The mood was more upbeat this year as transactional demand for cash has primarily rebounded from the lows of the pandemic, and the access to cash agenda has gathered pace in countries facing the reality of less cash.

The winners of this year’s CashTech Innovation Awards include Managecash Personal (Türkiye), Cash Perks (UK), and the Donation Dollar by the Royal Australian Mint (Best CashTech).

The CashTech Innovation Awards celebrate the huge advances in harnessing digital technology to ensure an accessible, reliable, and sustainable future for cash.

The programme of the Future of Cash conference (Istanbul, 6-8 November), has now been published. Here are the big themes of the conference, and the relevant speakers.

The Future of Cash Conference (Istanbul, November 6-8, 2023) will bring together stakeholders to discuss new strategies to design the cash cycle of the future.

Will robots use cash? At first glance this question seems too silly to warrant a response.