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In March 2026, a Referendum on cash will be conducted in Switzerland. Since the majority of the Swiss public want to have the option to use cash - to retain Payment Choice - the most likely outcome is: “Yes to an independent and free Swiss currency with coins or banknotes (Cash is freedom)” A UK Referendum would deliver exactly the same outcome. Which is why it is unlikely the Brit....

This is great news! £1 Billion from the Keir Starmer Government to fund cash payments to those in urgent need of financial support. Research around the planet has demonstrated that cash payments are the best way of providing help to those enduring a financial crisis. It’s easy to see why Emma Revie at The Trussell Trust Food Bank and Lynn Perry at Barnardo's are giving this imp....

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....

The figures in this article in the Daily Mail/ This Is Money simply highlight the lack of clear information about cash in the UK. A couple of quotes: “Nationwide revealed cash withdrawals from its ATMs hit £4.2 billion in 2025” and “ ..this decline in cash machines means that the overall amount being withdrawn is actually falling. Fresh figures from the ATM network LIN....

The 200th Banking Hub has opened, just shy of FIVE YEARS after the first one started operating. In the same period, the UK has lost around 4000 bank branches. In the five years BEFORE that first ever Banking Hub opened in 2021, another 4000 bank branches had been permanently closed. How can 200 Banking Hubs replace around 8000 bank branches? Easy answer. THEY CANNOT EVEN BEGIN TO DO SO. The ....

LINK report that in 2025, compared to 2024, ATM transaction volumes were 1,272m (down 8.3%) and withdrawal values £76,673m (down 4.2%). BUT that is NOT the total amount of cash withdrawn by the British public in 2025. FAR FROM IT. What we actually need to see in relation to UK cash withdrawals is NOT this very limited information from LINK Scheme Ltd. We need to see, in one prese....

PCA Chair Ron Delnevo was delighted to talk to the BBC again about all things cash and payment choice. One important issue discussed was the fact that the Financial Conduct Authority had found via a survey that 76% of consumers thought the contactless limit should be the current £100 limit or lower, yet the FCA had decided in its “wisdom” to remove the limit entirely from March ....

The Council of Europe is intent on strengthening the role of cash in Europe. The telling quote: “….the Council indicates its wish to effectively ban non-acceptance of cash by retailers or service providers…”. Meantime, in the UK, work on the “National Payments Vision” has deliberately excluded proper consideration of cash. Starting on 5 January 2026, the Pa....

At a recent meeting with the Financial Conduct Authority, the PCA told them that they should be stopping organisations publishing data deliberately underplaying the use of cash in the UK to further the cause of those trying to impose “cashless” on the British public. Here’s the AI answer to the question - What percentage of sales in the UK are in cash? “Cash Transactions (....

Lloyds Banking Group is closing the last bank branch in Okehampton in March 2026. The population of the Okehampton built-up area was 9,112 in the 2021 UK Census, having risen from 7,647 in 2011 - around a 20% increase - making it a growing market town, nestled by the Dartmoor National Park in Devon. A growing market town that will have lost ALL four of its bank branches when Lloyd’s desert ....