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John Winchcombe

28 Oct. 2026

4 min read

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.

Payments

John Winchcombe

28 Oct. 2026

4 min read

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.

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28 Oct. 2026

5 min read

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.

Access to Cash ATMs Bank Branch

Guillaume Lepecq

28 Oct. 2026

6 min read

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.

Payments

John Winchcombe

28 Oct. 2026

3 min read

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.

Access to Cash

John Winchcombe

28 Oct. 2026

5 min read

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.

News

28 Oct. 2026

5 min read

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.

John Winchcombe

28 Oct. 2026

4 min read

Payment News

The Bank of Ghana is testing cross-border payments systems using CBDCs, stablecoins, bank accounts and mobile wallets.

Payments

John Winchcombe

28 Oct. 2026

3 min read

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.

Studies, Reports

John Winchcombe

28 Oct. 2026

5 min read

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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John Winchcombe

1 Sept. 2026

1 min read

The Role of Mobile Money Accounts

There is a sustained point made around the role of mobile money accounts particularly in developing/Global South countries, with a view that mobile money is a displacer of cash. Analysis by Matt Sykes of the CPT Group of data published by GSMA suggests that it is more complex than that.

Future of Cash Payments

John Winchcombe

1 Sept. 2026

2 min read

The True Cost of AI

A recent article by Chris Skinner highlights the challenge of getting best value from using Artificial Intelligence (AI). This calculation applies to organisations, such as central banks, who are starting to integrate AI into the core of what they do.

Guillaume Lepecq

1 Sept. 2026

4 min read

Canada: Cash Remains a Cornerstone of the Monetary Landscape

A new Bank of Canada 2025 Methods of Payment Survey finds cash use at the point of sale remains stable, holdings are growing, and public perception of cash is increasingly positive – affirming its enduring role in economic resilience and inclusion.

Cash in Circulation

John Winchcombe

1 Sept. 2026

7 min read

Currency Complexity in Cambodia: Cash and Bakong, Riel and Dollar

A new MPRA paper reviews possible changes to cash circulation governance in Cambodia, examining de-dollarisation challenges, the Bakong digital payment system, and lessons from four other central banking systems.

Cash in Circulation Future of Cash

John Winchcombe

1 Sept. 2026

5 min read

News in Brief

An article on LinkedIn by José Ricón Rodriguez, using information from Datos Insights' Global ATM Intelligence Service, reports that for the first time since 2012, the United States is once again the world's largest ATM market. Not because it grew, but because China shrank faster.

News

John Winchcombe

1 Sept. 2026

4 min read

Payment News

The Bank of Central African States (BEAC) is modernising payments across the six Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) countries – Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Republic of Congo – through a series of interoperable infrastructure initiatives. Its aim is to make digital payments easier across member states while supporting regional financial inclusion targets of 60% by 2029 and 75% by 2032.

Payments

John Winchcombe

1 Sept. 2026

6 min read

Retail Digital Payments: Competition, Innovation and the Role of Central Banks

A recent BIS Bulletin reviewed developments in retail digital payments across advanced economies and emerging markets, finding that while digitalisation has expanded choice and convenience, it has not automatically produced effective competition — and that central banks are playing an increasingly active role in supporting interoperability and market contestability.

Payments

John Winchcombe

1 Sept. 2026

3 min read

Understanding the Impact of Digital Payments

CPMI data shows digital payment use continued to rise in 2024 across 31 jurisdictions, with growth especially strong in emerging economies — but the on-the-ground picture remains inconsistent, reflecting local circumstances.

Future of cash Payments

John Winchcombe

1 Sept. 2026

4 min read

CBDC News

CBDCs are emerging as a potential settlement layer for tokenised finance, according to Dr Wolfram Seidemann, CEO of Giesecke+Devrient Currency Technology. As tokenisation moves from pilots to implementation, financial institutions are focusing on how digital assets can settle safely, efficiently and at scale. Seidemann argues that wholesale CBDCs, as tokenised central bank money for institutional use, could enable instant transactions, reduce counterparty risk, improve liquidity management and support payment-versus-payment or delivery-versus-payment settlement.

CBDC

John Winchcombe

1 Sept. 2026

6 min read

Cash Resilience: the Infrastructure Question Behind the Future of Payments

The importance of cash is growing as its role as a resilience asset, a financial inclusion mechanism and a contingency payment method is increasingly recognised. It is against this background that the International Association of Currency Affairs (IACA) has spent 18 months on a series of events exploring the future of key cash stakeholders.

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