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In December 2017, LINK Scheme Ltd created a “World First” when announcing that there were too many ATMs in the UK. LINK - ultimately beholding to the big banks - stated that this was costing those banks “a fortune”. Leicester Town Centre was highlighted as the location most over supplied with ATMs. LINK said they would reduce payments to ATM operators so that major cit....

What a timely story from Australia, highlighting how an Australian post office is “begging” the public to deposit cash to safeguard the ability of the post office to offer cash withdrawals. The last bank branch in Queenstown had closed the week before. Timely because the Financial Conduct Authority is holding a review next week of what is happening to access to cash in the UK. The PC....

There is an ongoing campaign to stigmatise cash and those who use it. A charity participating in this campaign is Crimestoppers Trust They highlight the “dangers” of cash-only businesses and ask the public to look out for “individuals displaying unexplained wealth or expensive lifestyles” and using “high-value bank notes”. In fact, the UK does not have any &ld....

You have to admit that the “cashless” brigade keep on trying. They fund a massive French PR agency Havas to orchestrate their attempts to push the UK towards “cashless”. This enables them to obtain media coverage for nonsense. Ironically, Havas couldn’t run the same anti Public Interest campaign in France, because “cashless” is BANNED by law in France, ....

Only 75% of UK adults use mobile banking, despite the fact that 93% of them could ( because they have smartphones). That means that around 10 million adults are choosing NOT to use mobile banking, despite all the hype of the financial services industry, orchestrated by UK Finance and French PR giant Havas. It is wonderful that so many members of the British public can exercise their personal fre....

This is NOT protecting access to cash - its little more than window dressing! LINK have done 1173 “assessments” of communities left without banks in one year and only “recommended” 86 Banking Hubs! Which means in only 7% of cases are communities getting Banking Hubs. This is NOT properly protecting access to cash - it’s little more than Window Dressing! Why is thi....

Absolutely brilliant research work by the European Central Bank on the enduring importance of cash. The Bank of England will be viewing this research with envy - and great interest. I love this quote: “This crisis-driven demand for cash stems from its fundamental attributes: it offers distinct psychological and practical utility, explaining its well-documented global staying power.” ....

What a terrible “process” to get a Banking Hub. A MP bumps into the CEO of LINK Scheme Ltd at a “do” in Parliament, one thing leads to another - and Golspie, a town with a population of only 1300, secures a “review” of “access to cash”. Best word to describe this? FARCE. When YouGov conducted a survey of MPs recently, they found that 98% of MP&rs....

A cash-only ice cream kiosk in a threatre. Who would use that - according to LINK ATM Scheme, few people carry wallets anymore so how can they carry cash? Oddly, not a problem at the Alhambra Theatre in Dunfermline last week, where everyone seemed delighted to use cash to get their delicious Lucas Ice Cream. After exhaustive research on-premises, it was found that even those who did not carry w....

This quote exposes the terrible inadequacies of the current review system in relation to cash access: “The requirements the body LINK Scheme Ltd recommended the new service should have include a free deposit and cash withdrawal service for personal accounts and businesses, allow for a mix of coins and notes to be deposited and withdrawn, and be open for a MINIMUM OF THREE DAYS FOR FIVE HOUR....

Ron from the PCA talks to Lola from UNISON about the vital role cash and payment choice play in Britain today. Source: youtube.com/watch?v=RNfKA9GjOnU

Extracts from a story by Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday on 7 September 2025.

The Payment Choice Alliance (PCA) does what it says on the tin. It campaigns passionately for people to be given the right to choose how they pay for goods when out shopping, travelling on a bus, having a drink in a pub or at a football match. That means cash or card, not just 'card only',....

Ron Delnevo talks to Mandy from the RMT Union about the importance of allowing the public to use cash, including on trains. Source: youtube.com/watch?v=UwkVpu35vK8

Ron Delnevo talks to Debbie from the National Education Union about the importance of cash in helping children to understand the value of money. Source: youtu.be/pSL9dBv86NI

Wonderful coverage in the Manchester Evening News of the work of Steve Speakman, chairman of the Manchester Civic Society, to ensure cash survives as a Payment Choice for everyone living in Manchester. Steve is also a great supporter of the Payment Choice Alliance. Source: manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/all-should-wary-losing-its-32388022.amp

It was wonderful to read in the Jersey Evening Post that Deputy Montfort Tadier, who chairs the Jersey Economic and International Affairs Scrutiny Panel, is interested in pursuing a referendum on Jersey to let the public decide if Jersey businesses should be legally obliged to accept the publics cash. PCA Chair Ron Delnevo was delighted to appear before Monforts panel recently. Ron urged the pane....

The Bank of England is holding an event about payments that doesn’t have cash on the agenda - and invites prominent members of the anti-cash mob to participate. Not worthy of two minutes attention, let alone two days. This agenda is dictated by fear. The fear of being left behind. The headlong rush sparked by such fear has characterised the insane inflation of all the economic “Bub....

The important point is that J D Weatherspoons DO accept cash, in over 800 pubs, unlike so many other businesses. Particularly disgracefully, many public-funded not-for-profits and charities who are members of the Association for Cultural Enterprises do NOT accept cash. The Payment Choice Alliance is pressing the UK government to make the provision of public funding conditional on the British pub....

The power misguided governments gave to the “Big Five” Banks - those banks rescued by the British public in 2009 - has left us today with community financial services in TATTERS, as Dan Vevers highlights in his excellent Scottish Daily Record article. Edzell, a community of 800 residents, had a bank branch for 150 years before Lloyds Banking Group closed it in 2016, removing the ATM a....

This article in The Times is meant to be mildly amusing. It is simply rather patronising. Frankly, it is boring to have such commentators supposedly “sympathising” with those who need or want to use cash, as if such people are somehow outliers. Whatever such commentators think, say or write, the UK is NEVER going to be “cashless”, whether or not businesses, banks or the ....