News Archive 2025

The usual nonsense from so-called “experts”, advising against carrying much cash and urging people to use cards. Extensive travellers and cash users know better. Payment preferences need never be inhibited by any rules about how much cash can legally be carried. The danger is that the public pay heed to such “advice” and are swayed against carrying or using cash. Another....

Nice article in the Daily Express. The Post Office Ltd research findings includes a list of thirty examples of where/when the British public like to use cash. That’s a long list. It’s simpler to conclude that members of the British public frequently choose to use cash, when and where they are allowed to do so. That’s explains why only 8% of people responded in LINK Scheme Ltd....

Only £600 a MONTH can be deposited! Who are Lloyds Bank kidding? Far, far too low - and far too long delayed. How much credit does a surgeon deserve who carries out a minor procedure, knowing major surgery is required to save the patients life? The desire to limit what British citizens can do with their cash is what shines through from this low deposit ceiling. Around a decade ago, LINK....

There is a huge push by the government of Vietnam to eliminate cash use, basically reimagining this nominally “communist” country as a Digital Dictatorship. This hype claims that the country is second behind only China in terms of “cashless” transactions, which is almost certainly nonsense, given the population of Vietnam is only around 7% of its huge neighbour. Vietnam i....

What the graph show is that there are less than 35,000 Free-to-Use ATMs in the UK today. This means that 20,000 Free-to-Use ATMs have been lost since January 2018. A 36% fall, in addition to the 2 Bank Branches lost EVERY DAY in the same period. One impact of this massive reduction in ATM numbers is that around 4 million British adults face AT LEAST a two mile round trip to find free cash access....