Coronavirus and ATMs: Updates and Messages

Welcome to this page for fact-based messages about how the coronavirus pandemic affects us and our industry. ATMIA is here for you and for all ATMs throughout the world. You are constantly in our thoughts. Please stay safe.

• June 4, 2020 - ATMIA Advocacy Plan for COVID-19 and Beyond
• May 13, 2020 - Advancing the ATM Mission Against COVID-19
• May 13, 2020 - Essential Worker Liability Issue Addressed in Congress
• May 13, 2020 - Essential Businesses Letter to Senator Lindsey Graham
• April, 15, 2020 - Cash matters - now, more than ever, in the time of coronavirus
• March 26, 2020 - [Infographic] COVID-19: Cash & ATM Management
• March 26, 2020 - [Infographic] COVID-19: The Safety of Cash
• March 21, 2020 - ATMs Stay Open in Pandemic Economic Shutdown
• March 18, 2020 - Cash is Strong in a Crisis - the Role of ATMs in the Coronavirus Pandemic
• March 12, 2020 - New Coronavirus Health Crisis – Separating Fact from Fiction

COVID Update from the Asia Pacific Region: The RBA advised the Consumer Payment Behaviour Survey is conducted every three years so they don’t have a direct update on the 2019 pre-Covid figure for cash use from that particular survey (Research Discussion Paper). The RBA would expect to do the next wave of the survey in the second half of 2022.

In terms of some other recent publications that may be of interest include:

• Some colleagues in NI authored a Bulletin article earlier this year that discussed demand for cash during COVID, including a qualitative survey on cash use (Graph 6; Box A)
• Assistant Governor Michele Bullock gave a speech titled ‘Panic, Pandemic and Payment Preferences’ mid-last year
• RBAs regular Retail Payments Statistics collection has data on trends in the use of credit and debit cards, cheques, and ATM cash withdrawals.

•  Listen now: Is a cashless society a better society? 
• Letter from UK MP's to Chancellor requesting return to cost-based LINK interchange.
• Next Payments Survey: Market Research - Payment Preferences Results
• Cash in the time of COVID - Bank of England

ATMIA Members, please visit the Market Research Library for additional documents and resources related to coronavirus.

Graphics for use by ATM businesses during New Coronavirus Pandemic.

Graphics are free to use by all ATM businesses, click on the manufacturer/graphic size to download:

1024x768 | Genmega | Hantle | Hyosung | Puloon | Triton | NCR 80 Series

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Kindly supplied by Grant Victor

International Responses by Central Banks and Authorities to Cash in the Crisis:

• CCPC: U.S. Currency Poses No Greater Risks Than Cards or Phones
• Bank for International Settlements
• Bank of Canada 
• Deutsche Bundesbank 
• Riskbank 
• Banque Centrale du Luxembourg  
• Reserve Bank of New Zeland 
• South Africa Reserve Bank
• *Royal Australian Mint 

Other CBs or institutions just made comments to the media such as:

• ECB
• Bank of England
• Banque de France
• Monetary Authority of Singapore 
• San Francisco’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development

With thanks to James Shepherd-Barron ([email protected]), son of the inventor of the ATM, for providing this great graphic.