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More people in the UK are paying with cash to help them manage their budgets. With Nationwide recently reporting that cash usage had increased for a third year in a row, it is a sharp reversion of the trend towards the cashless society predicted during the pandemic when people preferred contactless payments. Banks must make
With the momentous changes, we saw in the banking space in 2024, we expect that 2025 will continue with this trend. The year is expected to drive access to cash efforts that were laid out in 2024, see banks leveraging customer data in a smarter way and develop more robust cyber security strategies. The regulatory
Shared infrastructure like ATM networks or branches can help maintain physical access to cash and financial services in communities that are at risk of losing their local bank branch or ATM. As we know from our work with Batopin, the ATM pooling initiative for Belgian banks, shared banking infrastructure can enable investment in modern self-service
Even though customers have moved towards cashless payments in recent years, more people are starting to rely on cash again as cost of living pressures increase. So, access to cash is more important now than ever before. But, accessing cash is becoming increasingly difficult as bank branches are disappearing on high streets across the UK.
