Lord Bird speaks with Ron Delnevo about cash and its role in poverty prevention.
Mon Dec 11 2023
Lord Bird, founder of the Big Issue and a campaigner for the end of poverty in the UK speaks with Payment Choice Alliance Chair, Ron Delnevo, about the importance of cash when it comes to poverty prevention.
There are too FEW ATMs in the UK, NOT too MANY!
Mon Dec 4 2023
It is quite wrong to suggest there are currently too many ATMs in the UK.
The 37,000 remaining free-to-use ATMs in the UK are actually providing the public with the same amount of cash as they were pre-pandemic.
The Big Five UK banks, who call the tune at the LINK ATM Network, want to force a reduction in ATM numbers.
They only operate around 10,000 ATMs at their remaining branches, branches wh....
Banks Close Branches, Remove ATMs - And Try To Foist “Cashless†On The British Public!
Tue Dec 5 2023
The “Big 5” UK banks - Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Nat West, Santander - started closing their branches and removing ATMs 20 years ago.
90% plus of the British public have accounts - are customers of - those Big Five banks. The decision of the bank Boards to leave High Streets meant it was inevitable , like it or not, that those customers were going to be forced to use online banking.
It....
A pub (and not the only one!) in crisis over “cashless†payments
Mon Nov 27 2023
Zoe Partington has owned The Lord Nelson for 13 years but is now paying 30p for a £5 pint in each contactless transaction. Zoe explained: “It’s harder for independent traders whether it’s a convenient shop or hairdressers is struggling now.”
Martin Quinn, Campaign Director of the PCA said: “Local pubs, in particular, are being hammered with very high card fees,....
Businesses Make Clear That They Don’t Want “Cashlessâ€!
Mon Nov 27 2023
Small businesses in the UK are having their profits squeezed by the Big Five High Street Banks and their card scheme collaborators.
An estimate from the Payment Choice Alliance of when the British public and businesses will be ready to go “cashless”?
Source: thelincolnite.co.uk/2023/11/card-is-king-but-lincoln-businesses-not-ready-to-give-up-cash-yet/
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