New Year, New Name!

Cash & Payment News™ (CPN) is the sister publication to Currency News™. It was first published in July 2018 as the successor to Payment News Quarterly and, while Currency News focuses on the product that is ‘cash’, CPN has concentrated on the use of cash once issued.

The changing nature of payments is an integral part of that story, and so tracking payments around the world has been the other half of the magazine. Somewhere in all that, of course, has been the rise of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).

However, it is a time for change. The first edition of 2024 bears the name, ‘Cash, Payments & CBDC News™’. While we have written about CBDCs for a long time, it is time to recognise formally that they are part of the agenda of the magazine.