The workshop will focus on understanding the changing cash environment and what stakeholders are doing to optimise the cash cycle and ensure the future viability and sustainability of cash. It brings together all stakeholders to discuss new strategies for shaping the cash ecosystem of the future - including the ATM infrastructure.
The afternoon will be led by Antti Heinonen, former Director of Banknotes at the ECB and Guillaume Lepecq, founder of the CashEssentials think Tank.
The seminar will address three key questions:
- How can stakeholders contribute to shape a viable and sustainable cash ecosystem in an increasingly uncertain environment? What does this mean for ATMs?
- Is cash a public good? Or a basic right? If so what are the policy implications in terms of access and acceptance, resilience and the funding of the cash cycle?
- What can we learn for the global evolution of cash demand?
In addition, Round Table Conversations will offer the opportunity to debate the burning questions, ranging from declining transactional demand for cash; the need for a more resilient cash cycle in a multi-crisis environment or the loss of privacy in a less-cash environment. Participants will be invited to deploy their collective intelligence to assess and discuss some of the key challenges and opportunities facing the future of cash.