Cash & Payment News in February

The theme of February’s Cash and Payment News (CPN) is very much on the future of cash and payments, considering as it does two sides of a coin, namely evidence of cash under pressure and the robust activity underway to keep it available, useful and preferred.

We review papers considering institutional hostility to cash, the impact of the pandemic on payments in the Netherlands and the extent that foreign demand for euro cash explains the ‘cash paradox’. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority reports on cash in Hong Kong and its priorities for 2021 and we look at the latest US Consumer Payment Diary.

With the publication of the CashEssentials CashTech paper on innovation and technology in cash delivery, we focus on this report and the practical solutions now being implemented to create a sustainable, future-proof cash cycle.