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Filtered by Cash in Circulation — 29 articles

John Winchcombe

21 Dec. 2021

3 min read

The Need for a New Cash Calculation

David Fagleman, of the consultancy Enryo, has recently presented and written about cash in circulation (CIC). He makes the case that CIC data provided by central banks is unhelpful because it overstates the case for cash usage and creates confusion about what is actually happening.

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John Winchcombe

26 Sept. 2021

2 min read

Where Cash and Digital Technology Meet

CashEssentials – the cash and payments think tank – has launched the CashTech Forum to promote innovation and technology, thereby ensuring a sustainable and future-proof cash ecosystem.

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John Winchcombe

24 Aug. 2021

5 min read

Changing Cash in Circulation in Italy

The Banca d’Italia (BdI) issued a technical paper in July analysing 20 years of cash data to understand cash circulation, important to a central bank for planning cash production and its monetary policy implementation framework.

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John Winchcombe

25 July 2021

2 min read

A Better Way to Measure Cash

Enryo, the payment consultancy, addressed the ‘cash paradox’ in a recent piece in Finextra.

Cash in Circulation

John Winchcombe

27 April 2021

2 min read

DNB Becomes Net Issuer of Banknotes

A recent article by the Dutch National Bank (DNB) explained that, as a consequence of the pandemic, its intake of banknotes has fallen to the extent that it is now issuing more euro banknotes than it is getting back in, a first since it started issuing them. The number of notes issued fell by 10% in 2020 but the number of notes received fell by more, by 25%.

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John Winchcombe

5 March 2021

5 min read

Measuring and Understanding Foreign Demand for Euro Banknotes

The European Central Bank (ECB) study, 'Foreign Demand for Euro Banknotes', set out to identify the demand drivers for euro banknotes and to estimate the share of euro banknotes in circulation outside of the euro area.

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John Winchcombe

5 March 2021

3 min read

A Changing Payment Landscape in Hong Kong?

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) monitors payments closely. During 2020 there were some interesting variations that HKMA will track in 2021. The priority for 2021 will be to monitor and understand what is happening across a range of indicators so that HKMA can manage the appropriate supply of banknotes.

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John Winchcombe

2 Feb. 2021

1 min read

Cash Essentials Launches Cash Glossary

Cash Essentials, the independent initiative that seeks to provide a platform for debate about the payments and monetary ecosystems, has published its first edition of a Cash Glossary. The aim is to give the cash industry a shared vocabulary relating to payments and the cash cycle.

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John Winchcombe

4 Jan. 2021

4 min read

The Cash ‘Paradox’

In its latest Quarterly Bulletin, the Bank of England published an article ‘Cash in the time of COVID’. The article seeks to explain what it referred to as the cash ‘paradox’, that cash in circulation is up while cash transaction volumes are down, which has been brought into sharp relief during the pandemic.

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