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A telling quote from New Zealand: “Small firms are especially exposed, with 72% of New Zealand’s small businesses saying they’d be adversely affected if cash stopped being an option.” Why is the Bank of England not asking the same questions AND publicising the responses in the UK? Why is it being left to anti-cash elements in the UK financial services industry to continu....

The provisions of new law cash access law in Ireland are inadequate - an up to 20 kilometre round trip to get cash is NOT convenient access to cash. However, where it is vastly better than the nonsense inflicted on the British public by HM Treasury is that the law actually mentions ATMs! In a now infamous statement on “reasonable” cash access issued in 2023 by HM Treasury, there was ....

With bank branches disappearing at the rate of two a day for the last ten years - and ATMs being ripped out even faster - retailers are becoming more important than ever in supplying cash to the British public. And no retailer is more important than Tesco. Tesco now have more branches than the total operated by the UK’s Big Five banks. And most of those Tesco’s branches have busy ATM....

Now the Irish Government is joining so many others around Europe in urging citizens to keep cash at home to deal with inevitable - and frequent - “Digital Downtime”. Meantime, all we hear about in the UK ( usually sponsored by Mastercard ) is how “EVERYONE ” is going to be “Digitally Included”, whether they WANT to be or NOT. Let’s just call it for what ....

The idea that the The Payments Association and Mastercard have the faintest clue about “Delivering the UK’s Financial Inclusion Strategy” is quite simply risible. Even though they are prepared to devote one whole hour of a pre-Christmas webinar to the subject. Mastercard, who announced their “war on cash” in 2010, have done a great job for their shareholders - but Z....

This article says Norfolk has lost 30% of its ATMs since 2019. In reality, going back only one year further - to when UK ATM numbers peaked - reveals an even worse picture. 40% of the free ATMs in the UK have been ripped out since 1 January 2018 - that’s 20,000 Cash Machines! Here’s a quote which explains why this issue isn’t being properly addressed: “Link, which overs....

BRILLIANT news from Nationwide Building Society! No branches to close until at least 2030! It’s not just their advertising that is embarrassing the Big Five High Street(?) banks - look at this statistic! “Nationwide branches remain popular, with 11% increase in customers using them over last year”. What established retailer in the UK can claim such an increase in customers us....

A nineteen page document “Strategy for Future Retail Payments Infrastructure” has just been released by The Payments Vision Delivery Committee ( “the Committee”) The Committee comprised Bank of England, HM Treasury, Financial Conduct Authority and Payment Systems Regulator geeks. In this document, cash is mentioned just once: “More widely, access to cash remains vi....

“Honesty boxes should be dying like cash.” Such headlines are really becoming tiresome. As our Chair Ron Delnevo told a meeting at the Financial Conduct Authority recently, the big problem in the UK is that media is fed a continuous stream of anti-cash propaganda by a number of organisations closely associated with the dominant players in UK Financial Services. There is even a quite....

The sign in the photograph is in one of the car parks adjacent to Stockport Railway Station. All of the car parks near this station seem to be operated by National Car Parks, though the sites may in some cases be owned by the local authority. It is now impossible to pay for parking at this busy station using cash, with frightening consequences for societal exclusion. Let’s be frank. This....