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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 Usage Country Profile Surveys

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.

Future of Cash Studies, Reports

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.

Studies, Reports

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

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.

Future of Cash Payments

John Winchcombe

21 Aug. 2026

5 min read

Cash Acceptance in the Eurosystem: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The ECB's 2026 survey of companies across 21 Eurosystem countries finds cash acceptance rising to 92%, yet growing concerns about changing consumer behaviour and declining bank branch access cast a shadow over the outlook.

Cash Usage Surveys

John Winchcombe

21 Aug. 2026

3 min read

Who Pays for Payments?

A Harvard Business School working paper analyses US payment interchange fees to reveal how wealth is redistributed across income groups – finding that cash and debit users effectively subsidise high-reward credit card holders to the tune of $30 billion a year.

Cash Usage Payments

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John Winchcombe

21 Aug. 2026

5 min read

CBDC News

Vietnam's government has tasked the State Bank of Vietnam to research, propose mechanisms, and conduct pilot implementations of a national digital currency in 2029 and 2030, in coordination with the Ministry of Finance and other relevant ministries and agencies.

CBDC

John Winchcombe

13 Aug. 2026

2 min read

China Smashes the Time and Cost of Cross-Border Payments

Perhaps the future of cross-border payments is with us. China has now completed its first outbound payment via Cross-Border e-CNY Transfer Services platform (CBETS) to Malaysia, settling a 43,000 yuan shipment of fresh durian. The transaction was executed by China Construction Bank’s Xiamen branch in coordination with its Labuan branch in Malaysia, using direct bank to bank ledger transfers and on the fly conversion into Malaysian ringgit.

Payments

John Winchcombe

13 Aug. 2026

5 min read

Central Banks and Payments

Cash & Payment News™ sister publication Currency News™ runs a periodic series looking at the latest central bank annual reports in the context of cash activities – production, circulation, counterfeiting etc. In this equivalent period series, we will be looking at those same reports in the context of digital payments.

Central Banks

John Winchcombe

1 Aug. 2026

6 min read

The Best of LinkedIn: Changing ATM Models, Understanding Currency and Digital Inclusion

Three standout LinkedIn posts from the cash and payments community explore the shift to shared ATM network models across Europe, and the challenge of measuring how cash is actually used — not just how much is in circulation.

Cash Management CBDC

Guillaume Lepecq

1 Aug. 2026

10 min read

The Pix Revolution: How Brazil's Digital Payment System Redefined Money

In just five years, Brazil's Pix instant payment system grew from a pandemic-era experiment into the country's dominant payment method, processing 64 billion transactions in 2024 and reshaping the role of cash. But its rise has also brought rising debt, persistent exclusion, and even US trade tariffs.

Digital Payments

John Winchcombe

1 Aug. 2026

4 min read

Do Digital Payments 'Miss' Low Denomination Notes in the Philippines?

A new BSP discussion paper explores the relationship between digital payments and cash demand in the Philippines, finding that while digital payments negatively affect demand for high denomination notes, the effect on small denominations is negligible or even positive.

Cash Usage Digital Payments

John Winchcombe

1 Aug. 2026

5 min read

News in Brief

In August 2023, Diebold Nixdorf emerged from restructuring and Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Its 2026 second quarter results report that the increased profitability of its German legal entities means it is once again a cash taxpayer in Germany, with Q2 adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) of $120.6 million, representing a margin of 13%. For the first six months of 2026, it made a total gross profit of $332.9 million per Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

News

John Winchcombe

1 Aug. 2026

5 min read

Payment News

For the first time, in the first quarter of 2026 card payments at POS terminals have exceeded cash withdrawals from ATMs in Albania. The central bank has introduced a requirement for entities operating in the tourism and transport sectors to have POS terminals, leading to an increase of over 6,000 units, twice that of the previous period. The number of banking transactions per capita has increased by 30%, reflecting the expansion of the use of electronic payment services.

Digital Payments News Payments

John Winchcombe

27 July 2026

1 min read

The AI Threat to the Financial System

Artificial intelligence (AI) threatens the banking system from a number of directions, according to an article by Chris Skinner. Putting the risk that there is an AI bubble to one side, there are three additional areas of risk.

John Winchcombe

27 July 2026

2 min read

New European Confederation to Defend and Advance Cash

Denaria Europe is a European confederation established this month in Brussels to defend access to cash. Specifically, the Spanish organisation Denaria, founded in 2021, has integrated with Denaria Portugal, the French Droit au Cash, and the Swedish Kontantupporet. There is a formal launch of the association on 14 October in Brussels. Registration to attend is required.

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