News Archive 2025

In Slovakia, businesses are urging customers to use cash to avoid new bank charges. Isn’t it wonderful that this option exists? Without cash being available as an option, banks and card schemes can basically charge what they like. Which is no doubt why, in July 2023, the Slovakian Government took the step of strengthening the constitution to guarantee that the public would have their cash ....

A quote from this article about the award-winning Imperial Garden Chinese Restaurant in Plymouth in Devon: “The decision to only accept cash payments came after the restaurant was twice stung by fraudsters who ran up huge bills and paid via a fraudulent online account. The restaurant ended up unable to collect the money.” The restaurant has no problems with its customers - there are ....

What is shocking about this article is that it has taken so long for The London Standard to notice the rip-off inflicted on cash users who use the London Underground! Overcharging those using cash to buy tube tickets has been going on for many YEARS- now they charge around times the card price to travel one stop using cash. Transport for London has got away with this type of rip-off for two deca....

There’s been a lot of brilliant PR in recent weeks about Banking Hubs. The fact is, however, that the promise to deliver only 350 Banking Hubs by 2029 remains unchanged. Let’s be crystal clear.. Those 350 promised Banking Hubs CANNOT fill the gaps created in community financial services provision by the disappearance of around 8000 bank branches. It was quite wrong for a Government ....

So MORE drivers prefer using cash for their parking than any other payment method BUT councils are still switching car parks to “cashless”? Many people who contact the Payment Choice Alliance to are sick and tired of the preferences - the wishes - of the public being totally ignored. It’s all very well for AA members to suggest drivers boycott “cashless” car parks -....

Kate Osborne is a great supporter of cash, Payment Choice - and Banking Hubs. None of this is surprising. Kates constituency has over 70,000 registered voters, many of whom need or want to use cash. They are part of the huge group of over 40 million voters who are demanding that a UK law is put in place in 2025, to guarantee their right to use their cash, when and where they choose. When it come....

Very interesting study, commissioned by the Deutsche Bundesbank. A quote: “The findings indicate that from the consumer perspective in Germany, the costs of cash and that of the most cost-effective cashless alternative are similar. This means people in Germany can choose between paying in cash or by card depending on their preferences.” Sadly, the final sentence is NOT correct, UNLE....

A quote from this Daily Mirror article: “However, Full Fact clarifies that legally, shops have the right to refuse cash payments, if they choose to do so.” Correct. Which is why, as also reported in the article, the Payment Choice Alliance is calling for new UK legislation obliging shops and other businesses to accept the publics cash. This would give the British public the same gu....

A lady in Selkirk in the Scottish Borders saying she had to travel 10 miles to get cash -a twenty mile round trip. A shopkeeper determined not to be forced to accept cards, even though his customers are struggling to access cash. Only one 24/7 ATM servicing the needs of the town - and, hardly surprisingly, it often runs out of cash. All the towns bank branches and main post office have been clo....

Thanks to Jon Ungoed-Thomas at the Observer for this excellent coverage of the issues - and to Kate Osborne MP for highlighting the impact on her constituents and many others. When PM Keir Starmer is pulling together meetings with his fellow European leaders, as he needs to do frequently in these troubled times, he might reflect on the fact that so many of them have taken steps to compel business....