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October 2024

Vital Importance of Maintaining the Cash ‘Habit’

Reflections on the Rise and Fall of CBDC

Are Central Bank Policies Aligned with The Need for Cash?

News in Brief

Payment News

CBDC News

An ABC (and D) of Mobile Banking

The Constant Need to Innovate

Mobile Payments Remain Muted in Canada

Hint of Cash Change in Switzerland

September 2024

Bank of England – Progress on Net Zero and CBDC

The Importance of Life Buoys

News in Brief

Payment News

IMF Mission Guides the Dominican Republic on a CBDC

Self-Sovereign Centralised ID – the Key to CBDCs?

Modi Praises India’s Fintech Industry

Do Central Banks Have What It Takes to Run CBDCs?

CBDC News

Can Society Trust Central Banks?

Two Seminars Drive Discussion and Debate on the Future of Cash and Payments

AI: a Practical Bootcamp

Tech Trends and their Relevance to Cash and Payments

August 2024

Paris 2024 Olympics: No Competition for Visa

Thinking About the Future

Meeting the Challenge Facing Retail Money

News in Brief

Is Artificial Intelligence the Future of Minting?

The Case for Driving Digital Economies in Asia

Payment News

The Impact of Tokenisation

BoE Consults on Innovation

Optimising the Cash Cycle: Standards in the Supply Chain

The IMF, Central Bank Independence and CBDCs

CBDC News

Conference News

Colombia Builds Bricks of Digital Payment Infrastructure

July 2024

New Zealand Trials Community Cash Services

‘Where the Cash Industry is on Sustainability’

News in Brief

Who’s Who in Currency & Technology Suppliers

Payment News

Making the Cash Cycle Work More Sustainably

The Digital Euro – Managing and Mitigating Disintermediation

Holding Limits Can Optimise CBDC Benefits

CBDC News

BIS Reports Urges Central Bank Engagement with AI

CBDC Conference Brings Together Central Banks, Academia and Thought Leaders

Central Bank Artificial Intelligence Conference 2024

Central Bank Reports

June 2024

Overview of Cash in the UK

Titanic Struggle Over Consumer Protection and Market Dominance

Fed Dives into Data on Demand for US Banknotes Post-COVID

Cash Visibility and Collaboration

Cash: Ensuring a Just, Inclusive and Secure Digital Transition

New in Brief

Payment News

Payment Change in Latin America

CBDC News

Privacy and the Digital Euro

Who Will Use a Digital Euro

Cross-Border Payments with a Retail CBDC

May 2024

Payment Change in India, Cash and Debit Still in the Game

Sustainable Cash Operations for the Future of Banking

News in Brief

Cash Use – Updates from Around the World

Payment News

Conflicts and Geopolitics Reshape the World’s Currencies

Cash Use Stable in Canada

CBDC News

SNB: Step by Step Understanding of Wholesale CBDC

Cash Sustainability Forum Draws Close

First Speakers Announced for the CBDC Conference 2024

Explaining the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive

April 2024

Consumer Complexity and Digital Payments

The New Cash Paradox

News in Brief

Sustainability and Cash Services – Bantas, A Case in Point

Options for Expanding an ATM Network

Payment News

Getting Digital Financial Inclusion Right

Digital Payments Need Discipline

CBDC News

rCBDC Lessons from the Caribbean

CBDC Privacy and the Merchant

Events

March 2024

Cash Is More Than a Public Good

CBDC News

Federal Reserve Confident in the International Role of the Dollar

News in Brief

Cash Visibility and Collaboration

Payment News

Impact of Mobile Money in a Remittance Society

What Does Introducing CBDCs Imply for the Stability of Central Banks?

Nexus Between Payments Digitisation and Cash Usage in the Philippines

EQUINOX 2024 – Central Bank Discovery Days

Starting the Debate on a Digital Euro

New Cash Recycling and Recirculation White Paper and Workshop

February 2024

  • 2024: a Year of Protecting Cash
  • Calculating Cash Use in Australia
  • Squaring the Circle
  • News in Brief
  • Will Italy Go Digital
  • Click to Pay in Czech Republic
  • Payment News
  • CBDC Round-Up
  • Designing for Financial Inclusion
  • Dates for the CBDC Conference Set
  • The Role of Technology in Changing Payment Landscapes
  • Financial Inclusion or Payment Inclusion?

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January 2024

  • 2023 in Hindsight
  • New Year, New Name!
  • An ABC of AI
  • Demand for ATMs Evolving and Growing
  • News in Brief
  • Mobile Money has Limited Impact on Cash in Uganda
  • Digital Yet to Reduce Cash Usage in India
  • Payment News
  • CBDCs and the Law of Unintended Consequences
  • CBDC Round-Up

December 2023

  • Cash Usage in Canada
  • Denmark to Change its Banknotes in Order to Keep Them
  • The Challenges of Digital Payments
  • Cash Use Rises in the UK
  • Payment News
  • PSR Recommends Payment Fee Cut
  • News in Brief
  • CBDC Round Up
  • Reliability of Payment Networks Under the Spotlight
  • Upcoming Events

November 2023

  • Cash Cycle in a Digital World
  • Shaping the Future of Cash in an Uncertain World
  • Making The Case for Cash
  • Time to Get Real
  • ATM News
  • Access to Cash in Canada
  • News in Brief
  • Why Do People Adopt and Use Mobile Money?
  • Payment News
  • Privacy Matters for CBDCs
  • CBDC Round Up
  • IMF CBDC Virtual Handbook
  • Upcoming Events

October 2023

  • Netherlands Struggles with Access to Cash
  • Two Sides of India’s UPI
  • Future of Cash – an ATM Perspective
  • Cash in Sweden: the Reality
  • Do Digital Payments Inevitably Increase Financial Inclusion?
  • Building a Utility ATM Service
  • News in Brief
  • The Changing Environment for ATMs
  • Creating a Level Playing Field
  • Payment News
  • Financial Services in Africa
  • CBDC Round-Up
  • The Usefulness of CBDCs
  • Upcoming Events

September 2023

  • Flawed Design Risks Digital Euro
  • Hoarding By Design
  • CBDCs: Scepticism and Challenges
  • Delivering Cash Cycle Resilience and Efficiency
  • News in Brief
  • Payment News
  • CBDCs: Public Infrastructure for Innovation
  • CBDC Round-Up
  • Central Banks and the CBDC Conference
  • Framing the Narrative for the Future of Cash
  • Upcoming Events

August 2023

  • Figuring Out Cash Demand
  • FCA to Ensure UK Access to Cash
  • Time for Cash Departments to Think Radically?
  • The Difference AI Can Make
  • News in Brief
  • The Importance of Emotion in Payment Decision Making
  • Payment News
  • CBDC Round-Up
  • Lessons Learnt from Ghana’s eCedi Pilot
  • Vital Importance of the CBDC Use Case
  • Upcoming Event Summary
  • Cashless Society Supports Friedman’s Theories
  • Upcoming Events

July 2023

  • Who Really Needs Cash?
  • EC Legal Tender Definitions Fall Short
  • Cash – a Backstop for Freedom
  • Brainstorming Cash Cycle Resilience
  • Regulatory Challenges of AI
  • News in Brief
  • Payment News
  • Central Banks and Big Data and Machine Learning
  • CBDC Round-Up
  • Expanding the Use of China’s e-CNY
  • Securing Your Reputation When Issuing a CBDC
  • Currency Conference Review – an Industry in Change
  • Upcoming Events

June 2023

  • Armaguard/Prosegur Merger Gets the Go-Ahead
  • ABCD to STSMs – A New Banknote Forecasting Model
  • The Metaverse: a New Frontier Needing Exploration
  • Australia’s Payments System Strategic Plan
  • How to Do Demonetisation Well
  • A2A Payments Make Progress
  • The Need For A Very Good Reason for a CBDC
  • News in Brief
  • CBDC Round-Up
  • Delivering Offline Capability
  • Payments News
  • Future of Cash Agenda Made Public
  • Upcoming Events

May 2023

  • Cash Recovering and Holding On, Says BIS
  • Cash As Important As Food
  • News in Brief
  • Three Views on the Future of Cash
  • EPI Refreshed and With New Impetus
  • Designing the Cash Cycle of the Future
  • ATM Crime Round-Up
  • Payment News
  • IMF Praises India’s Digital Infrastructure
  • Understanding the Impact of Retail CBDCs on Banking
  • CBDC Round-Up
  • Upcoming Events

April 2023

  • Bank of England Describes Future Payments
  • Malaysia’s Automated Cash Centre Project
  • Exploring the Innovative Potential of the E-Krona
  • CashInfraPro’s Approach to Cash Centre Automation
  • Digital Dollar Project – Helping Central Banks Keep It Real
  • Modernising Hungary’s Cash Centres
  • News in Brief
  • Competition Between Digital and Physical Currencies in the Next 10 Years
  • Payments News
  • CBDC News
  • Hungary Legislates on Minimum Requirements for Currency Infrastructure
  • Conference Update
  • Upcoming Events

March 2023

  • IMF Concludes Cash Usage Falling Globally
  • It Is All About Trust
  • Safeguarding Cash: ICA Recommendations to Central Banks
  • News in Brief
  • WBS Lays Out a New Cash Future
  • Coinbase Explains Stablecoins
  • Payments News
  • Bringing Futures Literacy to the Future of Money
  • CBDC News
  • What to Do With Banknotes at End of Life
  • Upcoming Events

February 2023

  • ‘Hard Law’ Needed to Safeguard Euro Cash
  • EU Further Reduces Proposed Cash Limits
  • Individual Logic, Collective Idiocy? 3 Perspectives on the Need for Cash
  • News in Brief
  • IMIA – Making the Case for Cash, and Coins
  • Payment News
  • Dutch Struggle with Digital Payments, and Ability to Pay in Cash
  • Does France Love Cash?
  • From Merchant to Consumer: a Payment Overview
  • CBDC Round-Up
  • Follow the Silk Road to Kazakhstan
  • Upcoming Events

January 2023

  • Sweden Future Proofs Payments
  • European Cash Fundamentals on the Move
  • European Round Up
  • Universal Access to Payments Required
  • News in Brief
  • Payment News
  • When is Money Real? When It Hurts to Spent It
  • KBBNS Teams with SONECT for Access to Cash
  • Cash Works… But It Could Work Even Better!
  • Optical & Digital Document Security Hits the Phygital Nerve
  • Use of Mobile Payment Means at the Point of Sale
  • Increasing CBDC Monetary Policy Impact
  • CBDC Round-Up
  • An ABC of Carbon Offsetting
  • What is DeFi?
  • Further Reading
  • WBS to Focus on Contingency, Crisis Management and Sustainability
  • Upcoming Events

Archives 2022

  • CPN Archives 2022

Archive 2021

CPN Volume 4 - 2021
Inlcudes CMNQ April & August 2021

ECJ Supplement

  1. Euro Banknotes and the Power of Legal Tender
    • The Background – Cash and the Future of Euro Banknotes at Hearing at the European Court of Justice
    • What is Legal Tender?
    • Cash As Part Of Monetary Policy
    • The Cost of Cash
    • Future of Cash
  2. The Advocate General’s Opinion – Bundesbank Act Challenged and an Absolute Right to Payment
    • German National Law’s Definition of Banknotes
    • EU Law Does Not Provide for an Absolute Right to Payment in Cash
    • Legal Tender: CBDC And Electronic Payments
    • The Only Direct Link
    • The Future of the Case

Archive 2020

CPN Volume 2020

Free Issue

Covid-19 Supplements

CN Covid-19 Supplement Part 1, 2 & 3

Archive 2019

CPN Volume 2019