Innovation

As we celebrate this year’s World ATM Day on 27 June, The ATM Appreciation Society is featuring the world’s most extreme Automated Teller Machines! Cast your vote and join this fun take at celebrating the pivotal role ATMs play in reducing disaster risk and enhancing financial inclusion.

Following the success of the Future of Cash online event in February 2021, we will be continuing the conversation on 6 & 7 July and providing a coherent story of today’s cash challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities.

Technology and innovation are contributing to create a sustainable, future-proof and efficient cash cycle. Cash-in-shop, paying cash online, contactless cash withdrawals, low-carbon cash cycle are all part of a growing range of CashTech innovations.

Unilever has announced that it will begin consumer trials of a seaweed-derived compound that the company claims can create self-cleaning surfaces, the applications of which are wide-ranging, and include banknotes.

Following the UK Government's announcement to protect the future cash system, a new survey shows that 76% of consumers think that the Government should do more to help people continue to have access to their cash.

Climate change is the defining issue of our time. Limiting global warming to 1.5°C requires rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society. While the environmental footprint of cash is modest, several initiatives are aiming at reducing it further.

Climate change is the defining issue of our time. Limiting global warming to 1.5°C requires rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society. While the environmental footprint of cash is modest, several initiatives are aiming at reducing it further.

The pilot, jointly spearheaded by Link and PayPoint, enables consumers to make free cash withdrawals from participating convenience stores and is part of Link’s efforts to maintain access to cash in remote locations and in the most deprived areas in the UK.

The US is confronted with a coin shortage as the pandemic has disrupted the supply chain and normal flows of coin throughout the economy. The Fed, the supply chain and retailers are getting creative.

During our recent webinar, four start-ups introduced their solutions and debated how they plan to address the ongoing challenges faced by cash today and in particular access to and acceptance of cash.

CashTech is, to coin a phrase, the encounter of cash and technology. CashTech gathers companies which adopt software and communications technology to provide improved cash services - including access to cash and acceptance of cash payments - as well as to enhance the efficiency of the cash cycle.

Cajamar, the Spanish rural savings bank partners with local municipalities to facilitate access to cash for the elderly, without leaving their homes.