This year, the International Association of Currency Affairs (IACA) is concentrating on cash visibility and collaboration.

As published in our sister publication Currency News™, Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) held its Currency Technology Symposium 2023 in July in Munich, the main themes of which were resilience, hyper-efficiency and sustainability within the cash cycle and generally the role of cash in today´s world.

The UN-facilitated Cash Working Group for Sudan, temporarily based in Nairobi, Kenya, is considering its options. While there will be a short-term requirement for food-aid, the bulk of the response is likely to involve cash transfers. But in what form?

Yuserisal Mohd Noor, Head of Automated Cash Centre at Bank Negara Malaysia presented at the recent Silk Road Cash & Payments conference on the Bank's project to fully automate its cash centre.

Anikó Bódi-Schubert and Ágnes Illés Belházy have provided a short summary of the content of the new Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB) regulation on the processing and distribution of banknotes, its main motives and its expected impact on domestic cash payments.

As noted in the December issue of Cash & Payment News™, the European Union has announced a set of new directives to limit the amount of cash and crypto transactions in a move, it says, that will crack down on money laundering and terrorist financing.

Koenig and Bauer Banknote Solutions (KBBNS) has signed a new partnership with the virtual ATM company SONECT as part of its strategy to help reinvent the way we move, access and manage cash in society.

Sveriges Riksbank has issued its 2022 Payments Report into the retail payments market. The report underlines the wide-ranging activities of the Riksbank to support the needs of all sectors of society when it comes to payment.

One of the sessions at the Cash & Payments Sustainability Forum™ addressed today’s cash management challenges, and featured presentations by Loomis, FedCash® Services, G+D and Koenig and Bauer Banknote Solutions.

Intelligent cash protection and custom control solutions provider Spinnaker International has rebranded to Secure Innovation.