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.

Compared with the banknote industry, one of the defining characteristics of the mint industry is the level of cooperation between the various producers. Another has been its apparent stability. Perhaps the two are related. But whilst this stability is rapidly disappearing, the spirit of cooperation is not just alive and kicking but spreading throughout the cash community.

Cash is king in Latin America, and many incumbents and startups have launched CashTech solutions in the region.

The Swiss firm Sonect obtained a fintech license to operate in Mexico in August, paving the way to bring innovative CashTech services to Latin America.