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The usual nonsense from so-called “experts”, advising against carrying much cash and urging people to use cards. Extensive travellers and cash users know better. Payment preferences need never be inhibited by any rules about how much cash can legally be carried. The danger is that the public pay heed to such “advice” and are swayed against carrying or using cash. Another....

Nice article in the Daily Express. The Post Office Ltd research findings includes a list of thirty examples of where/when the British public like to use cash. That’s a long list. It’s simpler to conclude that members of the British public frequently choose to use cash, when and where they are allowed to do so. That’s explains why only 8% of people responded in LINK Scheme Ltd....

Only £600 a MONTH can be deposited! Who are Lloyds Bank kidding? Far, far too low - and far too long delayed. How much credit does a surgeon deserve who carries out a minor procedure, knowing major surgery is required to save the patients life? The desire to limit what British citizens can do with their cash is what shines through from this low deposit ceiling. Around a decade ago, LINK....

There is a huge push by the government of Vietnam to eliminate cash use, basically reimagining this nominally “communist” country as a Digital Dictatorship. This hype claims that the country is second behind only China in terms of “cashless” transactions, which is almost certainly nonsense, given the population of Vietnam is only around 7% of its huge neighbour. Vietnam i....

What the graph show is that there are less than 35,000 Free-to-Use ATMs in the UK today. This means that 20,000 Free-to-Use ATMs have been lost since January 2018. A 36% fall, in addition to the 2 Bank Branches lost EVERY DAY in the same period. One impact of this massive reduction in ATM numbers is that around 4 million British adults face AT LEAST a two mile round trip to find free cash access....

The yawning shortfall in the number of Banking Hubs is undermining many communities around UK, though that will be no consolation to Sioned Williams in the Swansea Valley. Hundreds of communities that should have Banking Hubs are not simply getting them. Taking a wild guess, it would seem likely that by the end of 2025 LINK Scheme Ltd will have nominated slightly more than the 250 sites for Bank....

Kenya takes action to legally guarantee cash is accepted. Every one of the UK’s immediate neighbours has already taken steps in the same direction. Meantime in the UK, where a LINK Scheme Ltd survey just revealed that 71% of British adults see cash as vital for personal freedom, a government run by The Labour Party tries to maintain the position that the whim of individual businesses dicta....

Unfortunately, this sentence badly undermines the value of the potential US cash acceptance legislation: “The proposal provides an exception if there is "a device that converts cash into prepaid cards" without any fee.” The vast majority of those who WANT to use cash already have cards. They don’t WANT to buy another one using cash. I have seen this nonsense first hand in New....

Excellent survey carried out by YouGov for LINK Scheme Ltd. Congratulations to LINK for asking the right questions, ones the UK’s Regulators have NEVER asked. How about this for a verdict of the British public: “71% see cash as vital for personal freedom.” Or this “67% feel cash gives them the reassurance to fully understand the cost of what they are paying for.”....

A quote about a rise in rural prosperity in India: “The significant increase in currency in circulation points to a strong recovery in rural economic activity". For all the strenuous efforts of the misguided Indian PM Modi to “demonitise” India, along with the hype about the digital payment system UPI, cash remains vital in India. “Cashless” is dead in India, thoug....