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White Paper "Virtually Irreplaceable: Cash as Public Infrastructure"

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New York City's new law on accepting cash

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Hold on to cash, cashless is a slippery slope!

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MIT Technology Review finds cash irreplaceable

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The Tale of the Tubman Twenty

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Panic! at the Tesco: Why Brits are boycotting the UK's largest supermarket chain

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In Taiwan, FinTech is to play a vital role in protecting cash access

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Globally, 1.7 billion people were unbanked in 2017
(World Bank, 2018)
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Are Canadians ready to give up cash? Not quite, finds Payments Canada CPMT report

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Cash is king in a winter wonderland, finds Post Office® research

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"Cash use in Germany", a study on the extent of illicit payments (Deutsche Bundesbank, 2019)

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Cash is still king in the USA, finds GOBankingRates

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10th IMF Financial Access Survey (FAS)

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Cash is still king across Europe, USA and Australia finds 2019 ING International Survey

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European consumer protection agency makes case for cash

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World Payments Report 2019

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Top 10 ATM-rich countries, according to the 9th IMF Financial Access Survey (FAS)

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Events
September 21st-24th, 2020: The Global Currency Forum in Barcelona, Spain January 21st-24th, 2020: The 50th Annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland November 25th-27th, 2019: The High Security Printing Asia Conference in Yokohama, Japan November 12th-15th, 2019: The Americas Cash Cycle Seminar in Boston, MA, USA October 14th-16th, 2019: The Coin Conference in Rome, Italy September 23rd-26th, 2019: The Asia Cash Cycle Seminar (ICCOS) in Colombo, Sri Lanka August 27th-28th, 2019: The Africa Global Payment Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa
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Globally,

1.7 billion

people did not have bank accounts in 2017

(World Bank, 2018)

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In Portugal, there are

165.69 ATMs

per 100,000 people

(IMF, 2018)

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In the UK,

6 in 10

people will choose cash for Christmas shopping and activities

(Post Office®, 2019)

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In Canada,

cash was used for

4.5 billion

POS transactions in 2018

(Payments Canada, 2019)

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In the UK,

45%

of people intend to give cash as a Christmas gift

(Post Office®, 2019)

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In the USA,

37%

of people prefer cash

(GOBankingRates, 2019)

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In the USA,

39%

of people who prefer cash say it’s because it helps them budget

(GOBankingRates, 2019)

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In Canada, there are

220.6 ATMs

per 100,000 people

(IMF, 2018)

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In Austria, there are

168.89 ATMs

per 100,000 people

(IMF, 2018)

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