After the Pandemic – What Next for the Cash Industry?

We normally reserve the crystal ball gazing in Currency News™ for the end of the year, but the pandemic is no respecter of editorial calendars, and the consequences of the pandemic on our industry will last long beyond the next calendar year.

We aren’t done with the pandemic yet. But whether we are now at the ‘beginning of the end’ or the ‘end of the beginning’, there is no doubt that, thanks to vaccines, we are at the point where the pandemic is becoming endemic, and we are learning to live with COVID-19.

So what will the future look like in this ‘COVID as an endemic’ world?

Two of the articles in this month’s issue give some pointers – Antti Heinonen writes about the cash paradox, which speaks to cash in particular, and Andrea Nitsche writes about why cash matters, now more than ever, considering the socio-economic impact of COVID.