Cash & Payment News August Issue

Cash & Payment News™ didn’t go on holiday in August. Instead, it has focused on the environment, the importance of inclusion, a paper by ESTA on access to cash, a country profile of cash in Rwanda, a study of cash in Italy and the review of a BIS paper on CBDC privacy. All this alongside news summaries relating to cash, payments and CBDCs.

As noted, in the Currency News comment, the environment is always important and stakeholders in the cash cycle have done tremendous work in this area. On 1 November the latest UN Climate Change meeting, COP 26, starts in Glasgow in the UK. There will be significant press interest and focus on the environment and, recognising that, we are working with the industry to pull together a paper recording what has been achieved and putting the environmental impact of payments in context.