Kenya Rewires Its Payment System
The National Treasury and Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) published a draft National Payment System Policy and Bill 2026 on 21 September, which identifies high transaction costs and fragmented payment platforms as key challenges facing consumers and businesses. They want to address these by introducing open-finance data access, new licence categories for e-money issuers and wallets, and trust protection for e-money balances.
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Social Media and Digital Payments: Two Addictions, One Frictionless Trap
Social media and digital payments share the same engineered frictionlessness — and the same capacity to erode self-control. Guillaume Lepecq draws an uncomfortable parallel between attention addiction and spending addiction, and makes the case that friction, including the 'pain of paying' with cash, is a feature, not a bug.
Payment News
The Bank of Ghana is testing cross-border payments systems using CBDCs, stablecoins, bank accounts and mobile wallets.
The Growing Economic Challenge of Cash Access in Africa
As digital payments expand across Africa, maintaining the ATM infrastructure that underpins cash access — particularly in rural and underserved communities — poses a growing economic challenge that industry players and policymakers must address together.
Cash Use Falling in New Zealand, But Remains High
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has released its latest Cash Use and Access to Cash survey results, revealing a dramatic decline in everyday cash use since 2019 — but also a growing paradox of polarised cash habits and rising concern about the future of cash access.
DataVault Cash: Asking Good Questions, Getting Good Data
DataVault is the specialist intelligence platform for the global currency industry — and its Cash module illustrates how structured circulation data can reveal very different cash stories across neighbouring economies.
Can AI Transform Cash Cycle Management?
Every part of the cash cycle generates data that could improve policy and operations. AI cannot replace human judgement, but it can make fragmented cash-cycle data more visible, comparable, and useful.
News in Brief
Loomis has completed its acquisition of Hermes Transportes Blindados in Peru. Hermes has approximately 3,400 employees and 19 branches serving around 1,000 customers across the financial, industrial and retail sectors, as well as the public sector and mining industry. The competition authority observed that the combined market share of Loomis and Prosegur now stands close to 99% of CIT revenue in Peru.
Denaria Europe Launches and Makes the Case for Cash
Denaria Europe was officially launched on 14 October in Brussels, uniting organisations from Sweden, Spain, France, Portugal and Denmark to defend the right to pay in cash — and presenting a new European consumer survey establishing a baseline of cash data.
CBDC News
Sveriges Riksbank wants to restart assessing an e-krona retail CBDC. In 2023 Sweden concluded that there was not sufficiently strong societal need for an e-krona, which led to a pause in e-krona preparatory work. However, the Riksbank now says a deteriorating geopolitical environment, the advancement of the digital euro, the emergence of stablecoins, and the need to safeguard the resilience and competitiveness of the Swedish payment system justify restarting the work.
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