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A Payment Choice Alliance Special Report Sweden’s Far From Accidental “Cashless” Journey Is HALTED By The Swedish Government
UPDATE JUNE 2024 When this report was originally written in 2018, it covered the story of an unrelenting quest by the Swedish banks to make Sweden the planets first “cashless” economy. Some had already concluded that a “cashless&....

PCA Chair Ron Delnevo visits Treorchy in Wales and hears from the local community how badly they have been let down by the UK banks, as they try to impose “cashless” EVERYWHERE.

Some Local Authorities have the cheek to charge cash users more to park. Michael Gove, the Communities and Levelling Up Minister is asking them to stop doing this. Let’s hope they listen! At the say time, Michael should be writing to Transport for London, who charge cash users £’s more for tube journeys. Imposing such extra charges for cash use must be banned in the UK Paymen....

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OLDER people are being put off parking in the city centre because they now think car parks are 'cashless' or do not use mobile phone apps says a city councillor. Read More below.. worcesternews.co.uk/news/23645149.grey-pound-risks-cashless-car-park-confusion/

A busker has warned how moving away from cash could leave Britons more “exposed in a much more vulnerable way”. Sam Monday, who is part of The Two Sam Band, joined Anne Diamond and Stephen Dixon on GB News to discuss shifts in personal finances and the risk of digitisation. Read More below... gbnews.com/money/dont-kill-cash-busker-sam-monday-latest

The Daily Telegraph is right to advise readers that using cash is the best way to manage personal spending. Credit cards were invented to induce users to overspend and fall into expensive debt. In March 2023 total UK credit card debt stood at £65 Billion, with an average annual percentage interest rate of 22.3%. The best advice? Put your credit card in a drawer AND USE CASH! telegraph.c....

The Daily Express poll shows that over 90% of the British public are worried that the UK is heading in the direction of “cashless”. It is easy to understand why. The recent YouGov/Payment Choice Alliance survey in early June 2023 revealed that only 3% of the British public NEVER use cash. So the vast majority of UK adults continue to use cash - and of course they are concerned that ....

The Slovakian public are going to have the legal right to use their cash, where and when they choose. Why do the British public deserve less? Please drop Rishi Sunak an email at rishi.sunak.mp@parliament.uk to ask him. Only he knows! euractiv.com/section/politics/news/slovakia-adds-right-to-cash-payments-in-constitution-over-digital-euro-fears/

The Polish government has changed its mind over trying to limit cash use. The UK government please copy! notesfrompoland.com/2023/06/19/poland-backtracks-on-plans-to-limit-cash-payments/

A music festival that won’t accept cash? Time for a few more protest songs? “Blowin’ My Custom” (with apologies to Bob Dylan!) would be a good start, followed by “We Shall Overspend Every Day” (this time with apologies to Pete Seeger!). When music festival goers start to think about how they are having their human rights infringed by not being allowed to use ....

Michael Gove, the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Minister, has written to ALL Local Authorities to tell them that ALL their car parks must accept cash. It seems they are not listening, Michael? Time for another - and stronger - letter. www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/23573559.cashless-parking-machines-causing-confusion-grandmother/

Why should retailers be cautious of jumping on the cashless economy bandwagon? The past decade has brought incredible innovation in the finance sector. With a revolution in digital payment technology, the emergence of SaaS businesses built on open APIs, and the move to the cloud - businesses now have greater visibility over finance than ever before, a wealth of transaction data, and the means to ....

‘Cash is printed freedom’ – 530,000 Austrians demanded right to cash payments be added to constitution, but they are being betrayed, says FPÖ After 530,000 Austrians signed a referendum petition calling for the right to cash payments to be enshrined in Austria’s constitution in 2022, Austria’s political class is refusing to move forward with adding this legal ri....

There is still a percentage of the population who want to use cash. A trial by Greene King to make some of its pubs card-only has sparked anger, with many Nottinghamshire Live readers insisting "cash is king. www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/views-cash-vs-card-nottingham-8458586

This move to “cashless” payment has caused a brisk discussion on social media with a number of people on the Banburyshire Info site saying the move is discriminatory to the elderly and others who do not use smart phones… www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/people/another-nail-in-the-coffin-of-banbury-town-centre-as-car-park-stops-taking-cash-and-card-payments-4153599

In Nottinghamshire, we have one pub’s customers carrying out a boycott of their favourite pun as they trial a ban on cash… www.nottinghampost.com/whats-on/food-drink/nottinghamshire-pub-goers-unhappy-greene-8442878.amp

More on that Greene King “cashless” trial with outraged punters threatening a boycott… www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/read-this/punters-outraged-and-threaten-boycott-as-a-number-of-greene-king-pubs-begin-cashless-trial-4147762

Punters have hit back at the Greene King pub chain after it rolled out its “cashless” trial to a small number of pubs in the North West, South East and Midlands. www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/greene-king-brings-cashless-pubs-26940125.amp

This article reflects the power of the public when faced with “cashless”. This shop faced a backlash and has now wisely reversed its decision… www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/23529119.school-uniform-shop-u-turns-cashless-decision-amid-public-uproar/

The elderly ARE financially excluded by “cashless” when their cash is not accepted - and so are the ALL of us!
Which is why a UK “cashless” society can NEVER be allowed to happen! www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/yoursay/letterstotheeditor/23501114.amp

So why are some businesses refusing to accept OUR £’s?
Time for a UK Payment Choice Act, to require businesses to accept OUR cash! NOW. IN 2023! www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-12038397/amp/Cash-makes-comeback-people-revert-coins-notes.html

Can even true democracy survive when we cannot spend our cash when and where we choose to do so? www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/03/war-on-cash-existential-threat-financial-independence/

It’s official! A poll conducted by the Daily Express found that 95% of those responding do NOT want the UK to become a “cashless” society. We are surprised the result wasn’t 100% against! www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1762033/cashless-society-big-brother-poll-result-spt

Many people feel that the anti-cash brigade are trying to bully them into accepting they can’t choose to use THEIR cash. They are absolutely RIGHT! www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/a-dystopian-society-is-imminent-inyourarea-readers-hit-out-at-prospect-of-cashless-uk

Bank boss highlights the number of shops now refusing to take cash from customers. Why does he accept this is inevitable? The Bank of England should be working with HM Treasury and the Financial Conduct Authority to ensure the UK public - the electorate - can use cash when and where they want to do so. This will require a Payment Choice Act NOW. IN 2023. www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinan....

This article highlights how difficult it is for the public when businesses refuse cash. When equipment and systems fail, it is a VITAL element of CUSTOMER SERVICE that cash is accepted. And such failures are INEVITABLE. www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/comment/article-10258407/amp/LEE-BOYCE-Wake-save-cash.html

The question? DO YOU WANT THE UK TO BECOME A CASHLESS SOCIETY? The response? 95% SAID NO! Some recent huge decisions in the UK have only required only 51% support from the public. Surely 95% is enough support to guarantee the UK Government delivers a Payment Choice Act? www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1760032/uk-cashless-society-poll-spt

13/04/2023 A devastating “cash famine” is coming unless urgent action is taken over bank closures, experts have warned. Shocking figures show one in five cash machines were taken out of service in the past five years while the number of bank branches has dropped by 40 per cent in a decade. www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1758107/bank-branch-closures-cash-machines

14/04/2023 A town that recently lost its Post Office has seen its only bank close. How can Barclays simply respond saying that the company was "committed to deploying a range of more flexible ways that customers can physically interact with the bank"? The people of Flitwick are having “cashless” forced upon them! [link]

06/04/2023 Barclays closes the last branch in town - community left with 22 mile round trip. The town of Llangollen has been left without a bank branch, giving the local community a 22 mile round trip if they want to visit one. Is that “reasonable”, to use the current fad word of the the UK “Authorities” - AKA Government, Treasury, Bank of England, Payment Systems Regula....

06/04/2023 Council parking meters must take cash, says Gove. It is excellent that Michael Gove has written to Local Councils informing them that parking meters must take cash. However, in communicating this important message, the Government Minister sought to explain his stance by stating that cash is still “Legal Tender”. Unfortunately, Legal Tender status does NOT mean that anyon....

06/04/2023 John Redwood says “Paying should be easy and include a cash option” The Payment Choice Alliance completely agrees with John Redwood. There’s a War on Drivers going on, with “cashless” car parks one of the weapons. And, of course, this is just one part of the War on Cash, started by Mastercard in 2010. The UK is now on the Front Line of this war, as anti....

28/03/2023 The majority of us have been told NOT to pay in cash: More than half of people say they've had coins and notes rejected in recent weeks It is a disgrace that many businesses are trying to force customers to stop paying using cash. Which is why the Payment Choice Alliance is insisting that the UK government pass a UK Payment Choice Act, a law that would ensure the British public ....

31 Mar 2023 Free-to-Use ATMs Forced to Start Charging the British Public to Access Their Cash Independent ATM Operators are being forced to stop offering free cash withdrawals at ATMs because banks have drastically reduced over the years what they pay the Operators to allow bank customers to access cash at the UK’s Free-to-Use ATMs. Most banks now hardly operate ATMs away from their own b....

4 Feb 2023 Both access to cash and acceptance of cash should be a legal right in the UK
thisismoney.co.uk/money/comment/article-11712839/amp/JEFF-PRESTRIDGE-Access-cash-right-MPs-uphold-it.html

21 Feb 2023 95% of Irish citizens say they deserve Payment Choice? Are UK citizens less deserving!
businessplus.ie/news/95pc-option-pay-cash/

23 March 2023 Patricia Gibson MP calls for legislation to safeguard cash acceptance.
largsandmillportnews.com/news/23406494.mp-patricia-gibson-calls-protection-cash-payments/