News Archive 2025

This article says Norfolk has lost 30% of its ATMs since 2019. In reality, going back only one year further - to when UK ATM numbers peaked - reveals an even worse picture. 40% of the free ATMs in the UK have been ripped out since 1 January 2018 - that’s 20,000 Cash Machines! Here’s a quote which explains why this issue isn’t being properly addressed: “Link, which overs....

BRILLIANT news from Nationwide Building Society! No branches to close until at least 2030! It’s not just their advertising that is embarrassing the Big Five High Street(?) banks - look at this statistic! “Nationwide branches remain popular, with 11% increase in customers using them over last year”. What established retailer in the UK can claim such an increase in customers us....

A nineteen page document “Strategy for Future Retail Payments Infrastructure” has just been released by The Payments Vision Delivery Committee ( “the Committee”) The Committee comprised Bank of England, HM Treasury, Financial Conduct Authority and Payment Systems Regulator geeks. In this document, cash is mentioned just once: “More widely, access to cash remains vi....

“Honesty boxes should be dying like cash.” Such headlines are really becoming tiresome. As our Chair Ron Delnevo told a meeting at the Financial Conduct Authority recently, the big problem in the UK is that media is fed a continuous stream of anti-cash propaganda by a number of organisations closely associated with the dominant players in UK Financial Services. There is even a quite....

The sign in the photograph is in one of the car parks adjacent to Stockport Railway Station. All of the car parks near this station seem to be operated by National Car Parks, though the sites may in some cases be owned by the local authority. It is now impossible to pay for parking at this busy station using cash, with frightening consequences for societal exclusion. Let’s be frank. This....

Pennies are being phased out in the United States - BUT this change is NOT being used by McDonald's as an excuse for imposing “cashless”. Well done to them! Meantime, British companies such as Warner Hotels have the cheek to impose “cashless”, pretending it is something customers WANT! 88% of British adults responded to a recent survey that they WANT to retain the o....

Keir Starmer saw his digital “Government Gateway” go down last week. Sunk without trace for a while because it was dependent on Amazon - and it stopped flowing! Are you watching, HM Treasury ? Your “National Payments Vision”, relying entirely on digital, is in tatters before it is even published. Cash ALWAYS works - and has done in Britain for 2100 years. Cash is NOT a p....

Some interesting figures in this article in The Times The claim from HM Revenue & Customs is that the British public paying cash-in-hand is costing the British Government £2.3 Billion a year in tax revenue. VAT is at 20%. So if £2.3 Billion in VAT is being lost, it would imply that payments of £11.5 Billion are being made in cash each year to avoid VAT. Around £130 Bi....

Lucy Rigby KC MP, who is a Minister at HM Treasury, is at it again in this article, saying The Labour Party Government does not plan to introduce legislation to compel UK businesses to accept cash. THEN BEST CHANGE YOUR PLAN, LUCY! Every one of our European neighbours already have laws or constitutional measures in place, mandating the publics right to use cash and rejecting the frankly bizarre....

Utterly thoughtless rubbish here. There is absolutely no justification for Stagecoach Group Limited - or any other bus operator - to go “cashless”. New York introduced a no-change system, where cash is dropped into a hopper by boarding passengers, on buses in 1969 - yes, before Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon - and still accept cash today, in 2025. Edinburgh Buses - the UK’s....