Social Inclusion

People with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often engage in impulse spending with credit cards. Cash is a powerful tool to help them manage their budget.

Domestic abusers remove access to funds for financial control. Cash provides survivors with immediate relief.

This year, the U.S. Mint released the first pieces of U.S. currency to display a Black woman (Maya Angelou) and an Asian American icon (Anna May Wong).

A groundbreaking EU Council Recommendation calls on member states to allow displaced persons from Ukraine to convert up to 10,000 Hryvnias per person, without charge, at the official exchange rate published by the National Bank of Ukraine.

Worldwide, Uber accepts cash payments in more than 400 cities; however, some governments have restricted cash payments, eliminating the option for many riders. New research based on a number of experiments in Mexico, reveals that cash payments for Uber rides account for a consumer surplus of 50 percent

This LGBTQ+ Pride month, the Bank of England launched a new £50 note depicting Alan Turing, mathematician, cryptographer, and father of modern computing, unjustly treated for being gay.

Around the globe, protestors have been marching in response to the death of George Floyd in the US and against systemic and institutional racism. It is high time for banknotes to display more ethnic diversity.

Cash – physical currency – is a vital public good whose social utility in times of crisis deserves to be better recognised. It is time for aid agencies to protect it. The health of vulnerable populations around the world – the people international aid agencies exist to protect – should not be put at risk by advising them to use only cashless forms of payment or systems which are not disaster-resilient. In fact, to do so goes against the humanitarian principles of ‘do no harm’.

Mexico’s government is considering banning cash at gasoline and toll fee stations in a country where only 37% of adults hold a bank account while 75% of the population is underbanked.

Research conducted by University College London revealed how children are experiencing significant difficulties in handling payments and counting change as a result of society’s pressing move towards digital.

Consumer groups, lobbyists and organisations are calling on the UK government to take action in regards to the country’s reduced access to cash, demanding to appoint a dedicated regulator to protect consumers.